Most read stories

Determination without Negation: A Love Story

11181118 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…

Shuffle

11181118 views11 comment00 favs

Something is clearly wrong with them and we're supposed to socialize them.

missing glory

11181118 views55 comments44 favs

i found her world cluttered and noisy, a place where logic frowns

Antarctica

11181118 views11 comment11 fav

I don't have the feelings of self-worth a young woman should have, Monica Lewinsky tells the nation. She seems to understand there will always be some amount of ice beneath her.

Masquerade III

11181118 views00 comments00 favs

. . . he's of mixed race. Along with European blood, he's got Mexican Indian and African blood. Here's the irony. He don't look nothing like a white European man but he thinks like one.

gravelortian part 18

11181118 views22 comments22 favs

A poor boy scribbling

You Can Look Up Everything on Reality TV

11181118 views44 comments44 favs

Caution, the beer on the shore is lapping at the foam of sanity, and the wind in the trees is speaking thy previous names. Caution, a rise in the ocean will soak your dress above your knees, causing infinite tears, infinite hopes

The Last Cricket of Summer

11171117 views22 comments33 favs

The weather, mid-sixties now, will take its toll on this singular voice.

A Few Images Illuminating the Difficulty of Being a Young, Talentless Writer in Manila

11171117 views22 comments11 fav

A ten-ton bus with ill-manners going slow

The Tall Man’s Secret

11171117 views33 comments00 favs

I turn the corner and come face to face with Ed, who's stark naked at the kitchen sink. He chugs a glass of hot tap water from a measuring cup and belches loudly. “Good morning,” he says, as he pisses in the sink. “I drink 6 cups of hot tap…

At the Christmas Carol Bar

11171117 views66 comments55 favs

I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-

Closed Letter to Management

11171117 views1010 comments77 favs

don’t ask me to set my goals./ I have none except safe air to breathe,/ a reliable roof,/ something aromatic in the oven.

How We Open Doors

11171117 views44 comments33 favs

-- as if I had / only rung the rusted bell --

In the Carnage of Lament

11171117 views1919 comments99 favs

.

Tethered

11171117 views11 comment00 favs

Handsome are the houses,effigies in synthetic stucco: prosperity divinedbehind parted walls. Behold the ersatz simplicityof the residential subdivision, contrived construction inline and line and line. …

I Must Want it. No, I Must Need It.

11171117 views77 comments77 favs

She rubs her head into mine...

the cold envies whom?

11171117 views55 comments44 favs

cold plunges its lethal chill spade/into the dirt before cold takes the earth/to ossify it stiff with ice/the semblance of cold the semblance of death/said only to be felt this side of the grave.

Luhvvz Lang-widge

11171117 views00 comments00 favs

Th heeet frum mye skin on ers wus mehsidge eenuff.

Bands

11171117 views44 comments55 favs

Soccer Tease Nerdvana Ballsa Wood Pulp Friction Spam Folder Fetal Position Wayne Newton’s Yacht Late Bloomers Sir Real Geese

five shards of the ancient and the antique

11171117 views88 comments66 favs

“Outis of Utopia” my found name! / I'll inscribe it soon as the tide goes out.

Love in the Nick of Time

11171117 views22 comments11 fav

a dance in the moonlight

To the Palace

11171117 views00 comments00 favs

Less than a week ago, I was still a republican. It’s strange what an invitation for a job interview at the Palace does with your principles. I’m especially nervous because the interview’s late in the afternoon. I could go to the be

Long Night, Hard Night

11171117 views11 comment11 fav

It had been a long night, a hard night. The sky had been filled with blackened clouds, patters of wind snapping and whipping like a pirate's flag hung at full mast. Rain beat…

Crash Car Star

11161116 views00 comments00 favs

here we go.

August, now and after

11161116 views1313 comments1010 favs

I'll see her this fall, a redhead in camo

The Knife Edge

11161116 views22 comments22 favs

Max understood this perfectly and could easily picture the slow-motion buckling of the spars and the accordion collapse of the fuselage as the propeller blades’ churned up the ground.

Second Hand

11161116 views00 comments00 favs

“Okay, here is a wild idea. Let's each choose outfits from the second hand store for the other to buy and wear to a bar for a drink..." Famous second to last words?

Omens

11161116 views22 comments22 favs

The rain falls soft after a hard weekend.

Killing Joy

11161116 views22 comments11 fav

In certain sense most fractured in each part, the whole Resolves itself more central, but I sense no calm In the cyclone's eye, the forest of the soul, Where plants this eidolon of poisoned charm. This is the secret of the hurricanes, reaping Out from…

Better than Ever

11161116 views00 comments00 favs

It was a beautiful spring day and Jeremy was bursting with joy at being alive.