Most read stories

Church Construction (Leaps of Logic)

12421242 views44 comments11 fav

Suddenly you've got something to do on Sundays - Wake up early and dress your best.

Coconut Milk

12421242 views00 comments00 favs

"The baby's head..it was so big. There were complications...I saw it all. They tried to get me out of the room but I saw it all. He split her apart like a coconut Norm! She was gone like that."

The Image is Exact in my Mind but the Frame Keeps Moving Around

12421242 views44 comments22 favs

That morning in the driving rain a sequence of automobiles appeared on the streets in the region with headlights in the form of television monitors

Rihtan, I

12421242 views11 comment00 favs

Whether the girl was found fleeing and abducted into a short life of inexcusable torment or she escaped from the paths of Kulowul, the kingdom would fall in a matter of days.

Day Slides Like A Drop

12421242 views22 comments11 fav

later still wine parties with cucumber red and rich

Dear A. Lien

12411241 views22 comments00 favs

Time is a form of sandwich. Each component of the sandwich is nestled between night and day, which enclose it like slices of bread. There are minutes, hours, and seconds. Seconds are tiny, like sesame seeds. Minutes are a little larger. Think of them as p

Guramachimachi

12411241 views11 comment00 favs

The carnival passed through this hotel one time only, its boarded guests pretending to ignore the smell of outdoor whore in their bedding.

When the Snow Geese Fly

12411241 views33 comments33 favs

When the snow geese fly to the warming marshes,when the ice melts on the pond in the wood,when the sweet breath of fresh-mown haylofts over us and settles on the fields,I will remember you have been a blessing,a quiet steady forceWe will sit at the kitchen table and…

The Answer at the Bottom of the Stairs

12411241 views22 comments11 fav

She knew she had missed a step as her body rolled down the stairs. Panic set in as the world flew by her at lightening speed. Would she survive?

7th Avenue Local

12411241 views11 comment00 favs

The harsh lights of the 7th Ave. Local revealed dark circles that had remained hidden during Vivian’s performance.

Even if I was a Fool

12411241 views77 comments77 favs

I enjoy the walk through these crowded woods. It's good to be back among deeply seated young and old trees again. That familiar smell, you want to always savor it so very much, to not deny any of it. It smells like a blue sky, the…

Butterfly Morning

12411241 views22 comments11 fav

We woke up and we were whirlpools of spilt turquoise oil / with wings for flying

U-11 Soccer Girls Gone Wild

12411241 views00 comments00 favs

Do you think your mom would come out and take off her shirt, the way Brandi Chastain did the last time the U.S. women won the World’s Cup?

The Unseen Hand Shuffles the Deck

12411241 views1010 comments66 favs

2008Not a bubble burstbut a trust ruptured.The guilty don't survivebut, rather, thrive. 2011The monied are superior.They game the system well.As we work harder, longer,their paper fortunes swell.2017Marie and Louie were monied once.The Romanovs as well.Fast as blades and…

The House on El Nino Diablo Court

12411241 views00 comments11 fav

On a cold, dark night near to All Hallows' Eve in October of 1930, I was summoned by Constable John Wakefield to the house of Vernalier Driscoll. The constable was wild-eyed and very nervous, his hair appeared to be standing on end.

Wolf - Variation 5

12411241 views22 comments22 favs

his eyes see blood as circumstance.

Masquerade III

12411241 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.

My Fuji Red Banannanana

12411241 views55 comments33 favs

She had some fascinatingif incongruoustwins of swing hips.Her eyes made me thinkof opium densof fast women without a twitch,the sweet despair of gentlemen loserswith their 19th centuryhandbooks of moralityand witchcraft. But she only wanted mefor my Fuji Red…

Error Message

12411241 views00 comments00 favs

Would you take a job living in a computer? What if you had to?

After Appomattox

12401240 views55 comments44 favs

The renegade states- Virginia, Georgia,/ Texas, and the rest- should have lost their names

Dongs

12401240 views33 comments22 favs

[YOU BETTER BE READY FOR THIS!]

london walking (empty streets)

12401240 views33 comments11 fav

st. paul is steeped in fog. mist and rain make the north side a grainy faded photograph, almost timeless.

The Overfilled Silence

12401240 views33 comments33 favs

At the Rest Home for Silence We are teenagers At best I have to admit I fell asleep on the bus On the way to the Rest Home For Silence And I woke up To the noise Coming from the Overfilled silence It's the overfilled silenc

Swiss Sushi vs. Swish Suzi

12401240 views1010 comments66 favs

There being so few venues for Lapp dancing in Lausanne in those days, Swish Suzi took a job in a Swiss sushi bar.

Section 8

12401240 views66 comments22 favs

To a desert island I pick a book of crosswords for my one item. It is a desert island. What could be more practical? I awake in the middle of the night, an itch in my throat. I blow my nose. Weird gobbets of blood ring my Kleenex. It drizzles out now, wet here, gelatinous…

The Gift

12401240 views22 comments11 fav

and oh how serratedly so

Fugue No. 3

12401240 views33 comments00 favs

The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The rain comes down in sheets.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 29

12401240 views00 comments00 favs

-Ben, you mean you could get whacked for a couple of paintings? -Well, Gabe, there's more to it than a couple of paintings, but my lips are sealed.

for want of water

12401240 views1212 comments99 favs

you shimmered me with attention

Tons

12401240 views77 comments11 fav

Drink tons of water they keep telling me...