Most read stories

Con Artist

908908 views11 comment11 fav

The name he was using this time was Paul Sterling.

The Inconsequential Leaping of Rabbits

908908 views33 comments22 favs

If someone were to place a rabbit in her lap right now, there would be nothing she could do to hold onto it. It would leap. Drop. Hie its powerful body elsewhere. At the end of her life she would have nothing to show but a collection of rabbit-shaped empt

2 Haiku

908908 views99 comments77 favs

We’re heading to a Poetry reading when my wife Says “You owe me one” Coming back from the Poetry reading, my wife says “You owe me, big time”

Man

908908 views1010 comments44 favs

There’s not enough time because we come back to the things we never learn and forget them.

Corporal punishment

908908 views00 comments00 favs

We huddle behind the bedroom door and hear the swish of dad's belt as he yanks it from the pant loops, our backsides clenched.

Henry Katz

908908 views44 comments00 favs

Henry Katz sat on his couch. He was reading a book. He guessed it was a novel, but he had to keep looking at the cover to remind himself what it was.

Determination without Negation: A Love Story

908908 views11 comment00 favs

In dreams begin responsibilities--Yeats I'm writing this story to tell you about a mistake, despite the fact that you might find it boring or might consider my writing style onerous or overeager. I begin with…

Conversation in a Dark Corner of Cafe Breton

908908 views22 comments22 favs

I loved you with the heaviness of crushed knives

My Neighborhood is F*cked Up

908908 views55 comments11 fav

There is a couple across the street who fight constantly. I feel bad watching them fight but they haven't had curtains since I moved into my new place and no one in this neighborhood can afford cable. I know that …

The Campus Socialists

908908 views33 comments11 fav

The Campus Socialists Paul and Mary Jo lived in an apartment at the top of a long, dark flight of stairs that were so high, I remember as if it were yesterday thinking, the night she pushed him down the stairs, he would surely be dead by the time h

Geek Squad

908908 views66 comments66 favs

Big hair shoulder pads hell no.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 47

908908 views77 comments00 favs

Who better to know the wiles of the fox than the vixen herself?

Modes of Motion

908908 views22 comments00 favs

I saw an ocean drained and filled / at the flats of Saemangeum.

Winter Fire

908908 views00 comments11 fav

Snow is falling like ashes. I know they're hot and cold. One leaves black streaks on my cheeks, the other tears. Maybe the ashes were falling with the snow, not enough water to put out the fire, just to stir the embers. If you screamed I couldn't…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 28

908908 views22 comments22 favs

On Monday, Michiko returned from Cleveland in a foul mood. She called Frank’s studio at three in the afternoon.

Desert

908908 views22 comments11 fav

Tonight’s concert was called Desert.

The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe

908908 views22 comments11 fav

Macro-Microbe parked his car and proceeded on foot, which was a misnomer because he had no feet. Typical for Manhattan, no one gave him a second glance except for a homeless woman who tried to sell him hand-sanitizer. Macro-Microbe locomoted himself insid

WILD

907907 views11 comment11 fav

Most days you couldn't win; the constant nag from the fact that it was all a game was your only comfort. I was at the unemployment office again. The gal at the counter'd seen me enough to know when the printer was out of ink so she could walk away.

Damien Hirst Burger

907907 views33 comments11 fav

the Tate Modern is like a dungeon!

Snap

907907 views77 comments44 favs

An eternity in a crashing moment.

For Later

907907 views11 comment00 favs

. . . lightening for their jars

Junior League Therapy

907907 views55 comments44 favs

She laughed as she stuck up the word flaccid, it kept falling down

extinguished

907907 views66 comments00 favs

The silence grew louder as it grew longer.

Struggle Has Ended

907907 views11 comment00 favs

Shh! What? The downstairs neighbors. They’re at it again. What? It’s the weekend? They’re both home? Oh. Remember? I think so. Sort of. Shh! What’s that grunting? He must be doing the heavy lifting. Sounds like he’s hurt

Orslan

907907 views00 comments00 favs

After going to the garage and moving at least 4000 boxes of junk we found the coat rack. We wrestled it up the stairs to my room. I wasn't much help, but Dad was cool about it. I think he was just happy I liked the suit.

The Blood and the Bulb

906906 views44 comments22 favs

I had laid my hand down hard upon a long forgotten shard of an old coke bottle. The cut is deep.

Shenanigans 1 : Lack of observation

906906 views22 comments00 favs

Keep it quick (and they usually did) and it was simple. Quick as the walk between their houses, from number 27 to number 33 (odd numbers only), and simple as the alibi.

Epigenetics

906906 views00 comments00 favs

Wanted: Woman with wit, repartee skills, education and looks. Conversation, verbal dualing and ??? Respond to Seeker.

Arcana Magi Zero Arc 3 - c.2

906906 views00 comments00 favs

Megumi turned to the night sky. The moon was brighter than she ever saw. The argument got louder as her smile shrunk into sadness.

Incantatory Plea to the Civic on Interstate 75

906906 views1010 comments77 favs

May the timing belt stand the stress again