Most read stories

Band Names Too

11091109 views44 comments33 favs

Gun Notches Working Stiffs Garlic Torch Dog Crouch Menbrain Membrane Ein Zwei Drei Fake German Soldier Wet Tissue Tissue Paper Pants Tough Stain Adam and Evil Closed Loophole Wait For It Fiscal Cliff and the Cliffhangers Repu

Siren

11091109 views22 comments11 fav

There it it again, that noise. That low hum that I know so well now, spinning, gaining momentum in my head, like a cyclist in a velodrome, until its steadiness and roundness becomes sharp, painful, cutting like glass.

Remember

11091109 views00 comments00 favs

“What can I do for you?” he asks Dan, who then rolls up his shirt sleeve to reveal a list of names etched into his arm, with lines through them, like a scrawled timetable on a prison wall. The last name on the list is the only one without a strikethrough

Thoughts After Arriving Home from the Cafe Havana

11091109 views55 comments11 fav

If someone told me like people do / that I am a good person / I will never believe them / mostly because I own a mirror / but also because I have lived with myself / for the rest of my life

The Seer

11091109 views00 comments00 favs

They do exist though. They have for centuries and when one comes forward and is vocal and authentic, it pays to give a listen. How to know if they are authentic? They charge nothing, they fear nothing and they merely exist in the world, just as you and I

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 50

11091109 views11 comment11 fav

Oriana, much as she wanted to, did not sleep with Francesco, propriety ruled.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 24

11091109 views00 comments00 favs

As Zoë says, “You and your musician friends drink in industrial quantities.”

Lvoe

11091109 views44 comments00 favs

like a hundred cracks of thunder / or my brain seizing up, going all floppy on me ...

With Nothing Here But Me I Begin

11091109 views88 comments77 favs

to unwind looking for the answer.I confess I wasn't so discreetas life demanded, laughing like anowhere poet. Nothing relieved thegod awful boredom. Many times Iconfess I hadn't really takenthe vitamins, crying like a courtjester thrown into a dungeon onmarket day, and felt…

SEIZE

11091109 views00 comments00 favs

“You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled. “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked. “Yes it…

So Played the Pipes in Arras

11081108 views33 comments00 favs

After he closed the door, Harry stared at the box for a long time before picking it up. I know what it is and I know what it means. Bloody hell. And at Christmas of all times.

Falling from Grace

11081108 views44 comments22 favs

Royce fell from Grace and landed in the fountain surrounding her pedestal. It wasn't the first time Royce had climbed the statue. It was the first time he'd been sober.

Craigslist 2014

11081108 views00 comments00 favs

Craigslist 2014?

Portrait of a Dead Princess

11081108 views1212 comments77 favs

Extrapolate, interpolate/ to add imaginary flesh// to fragmentary bones.

Will There Be Cliff Notes?

11081108 views22 comments22 favs

The new members were asked to stand up and say their names. One obnoxious, pushy woman from L.A. stood up and said, "Ama Torrent, and I'm an alcoholic." The roomful of people started murmuring. Suddenly a man in his late fifties shot out of his chai

Winter Fire

11081108 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…

fabulous birds

11081108 views22 comments00 favs

Fabulous birds perched nearby, where we were. In their memory there goes the little god, original, in the midst of it all, happiness like anything near the river-mouth. Letting yourself dabble in the femaleness of it. In the lower world or on the playin

Nodding Off in the Paper Airplane Assembly Line

11081108 views44 comments44 favs

The world's anxious fire breathing mob still wants in, but they don't know what in the smoke they are looking for. They aren't really thinking in that intellectual direction. All these wonderful, friendly books you see do not hold the answer or…

Pops

11081108 views55 comments44 favs

My father is the kind of man to shout at you / just because you took the wrong road / at least the road that he’s not used to...

Bitter the Sun When It Is in Hades

11081108 views55 comments00 favs

Bitter the sun when it is in Hades High fans meaning nothing keep the heat down but the nitre keeps burning So glows the gloss and high sheen on the skin Foreheads exhibit thought though the eyes are crossed and at night, butterflies i

I Take Out The Garbage

11071107 views1515 comments99 favs

I Take Out The Garbage

Stalk

11071107 views00 comments00 favs

A spot in space observes all this, with its eyes arching over on their stalks. The observation point dangles one eye above the other, turning the roundness of them suddenly.

Return To Sender.

11071107 views00 comments00 favs

"...his previous prognosis of never being able to walk again has been upgraded to 'severe and debilitating physical pain and mental anguish,' so maybe there really IS a God!"

The Body

11071107 views11 comment11 fav

Well, it looks like I’ll be having a stem-cell transplant after all...

Year End Close-out

11071107 views1212 comments44 favs

Strauss does all the stirring at the start./ The rest is all murk and meander

The Wait

11071107 views00 comments00 favs

Transhumanism has always had its malcontents usually derived from some philosophic contestation, but for all their thought experiments, somehow my present situation eluded them.

Release My Pajamas

11071107 views33 comments22 favs

And then I heard “Yea, for I have seen the Father The Son, and the Holy Toast” Okay now, something up was weird

Geek Squad

11071107 views66 comments66 favs

Big hair shoulder pads hell no.

Cow & Fly

11071107 views22 comments11 fav

If I can eat a cow...

Shiver, 43

11071107 views22 comments00 favs

, that smiley lush would shake rattle and quiver the day long no matter the temperature.