Most read stories

Character Witness

880880 views00 comments00 favs

You will say how easy it was to love him, How he is kind, gentle, Quick to rub your shoulders in the evening And never one to forget an anniversary. They will ask you of his interests, moods, pass-times And you will silently think of…

Cocoon

880880 views55 comments33 favs

Small wonders, her worthless,priceless treasures fortify the wallswhile hoarded trinkets protect her like armor against memoriesof a desperate past.

The Tragically Short Life of the American Barfly

880880 views00 comments00 favs

That is then and the devil reigns in the here and now. Tonight I am the barfly and tomorrow I die.

Noir in cadence

880880 views1010 comments88 favs

...hup hup hup...

Joey's War

880880 views55 comments11 fav

Joey tried to shoot the cop with his air gun but the cop sprayed Joey with pepper spray.

A Release of Sorts

880880 views1212 comments99 favs

For the new year, I´ve given up palm oil. Made shopping a whole lot harder. Damn orangutans tugging at my conscience.

gravelortian part 17

880880 views22 comments22 favs

Biting off your own tongueBlistering boils, stumps of burnt hairChopping your hand off with a dull axeDrowning in a swimming pool of blood and pissDrinking dog puke from a brown paper bagEating the intestines of your uncle three months deadFalling into barbwire covered…

China

880880 views11 comment00 favs

Your words broke meLike a china vase dropped to the floorAnd though the pieces were recoveredStuck together with love and compassionThe cracks are there for those who lookI was happy to be there, content in that placeYou wanting to be somewhere elseNever telling me where…

Handiwork

879879 views44 comments00 favs

People speak of wordsmiths, as if they hammer text into shape; smelting down clunky prose, recasting from white-hot ink.

At the Christmas Carol Bar

879879 views66 comments55 favs

I’ll take my Christmas carols neat-

Watching the End of the World from the Beginning of a New Revolution

879879 views55 comments55 favs

We were always going to be here. This isn't thebig reveal. It's not even the best last joke. That's to come. Like the apocalypse that it always wants tobe, like playing with the big planet gods. Nothing says we're all doomed like another cold beer. Wave the…

Always / Never

879879 views11 comment11 fav

"... A set of vertebrae disintegrate and a woman falls face first into her dinner plate."

Five Million Yen: Chapter 10

879879 views00 comments00 favs

Ben watched the cat burglar snake his way from window ledge to window ledge.

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 59

879879 views44 comments22 favs

When I returned to Brooklyn, I discovered some explicit nude paintings of a former student of Francesco's from the Art Students League.

I Like the Celebration

879879 views11 comment11 fav

But please, don't let me fall into any more smaller pieces than I already have, before I get to kiss someone again and really mean It. I'm pretty sure I've always believed in something more positive than just hate. I've …

Wordswhisperlove

879879 views55 comments33 favs

His eyes begin to glisten like hot green wax pooling around the wick of a pretty little candle.

Totem Song

879879 views00 comments00 favs

Will you leave me, you, the one?

Generous World

879879 views55 comments33 favs

perhaps because it knows that time’s a solvent/ and dissolves all things in time.

On Reading Yeats' "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"

879879 views33 comments11 fav

Two logs to make a fire burn, one real, one fake, for we have learned that's all an evening fire takes.

Forward

879879 views00 comments00 favs

Walking alone, underneath thin, moonlit clouds, the world began to unfold and shows it guts. Deep within the Colorado mountains, miles from the nearest convenience store or free wi-fi connection, I started to merge into the implicate.

Spliced from the scraps on the cutting room floor by a young intern from UC Berkeley while Brando studied her profile in 1959

879879 views1212 comments88 favs

Bogart frowned, said, "How do you do that?"

The Way it Ought to Be

878878 views22 comments11 fav

a rug burn tragedy.

Breaking And Entering

878878 views00 comments00 favs

Do you know what it is to crave something? Of course you do. But this was different. This was beyond craving.

a random thought

878878 views00 comments00 favs

They shake, shake, while mouths say the words.

Beating

878878 views1010 comments66 favs

Season's felicitations!

Control

878878 views00 comments00 favs

The eater's pose extending the fork in hand toward the bowl wherein the appetizer lay readied. Salad, carefully configured for its purposes mixing vitality with pleasure which should not be differentiated, don't you agree? Colors selected for their…

On a Son Turning Twenty-One

878878 views55 comments22 favs

The rest is Scots, people for whom a taste is enough and a lyric’s as rare as a dragon or a poet named MacDuff.

Still Single

878878 views99 comments66 favs

“Yes, Mother, of course I’m still single. No, I haven’t joined the Army. No, I’m not moving back home.”

The Only Tricks We Know

878878 views00 comments00 favs

The day Eugene told me his secret he gave me a bouquet of lilies. Ice clung to the petals like fuzz. Sorry about the frost, he said. That was an accident.

The Continuum of Flames

878878 views44 comments22 favs

Molly was from dull and wet Kansas City, Missouri, where she learned to pass the time in the many record shops and bars that lined it's inconspicuously storied streets, catching the attention of a young red blooded all American Kansas City man, from time