Most read stories

The visitors

10691069 views1010 comments55 favs

I am a small cottage up on the hill. Every morning, I open my windows and my front door. First enters dawn which turns the walls blue, followed by the sun laying straws of wheat on my table. Inside my cottage the day lights up the dark corners while the lamps go quietly…

Selfie

10691069 views44 comments33 favs

a few numbers/ and a handful of their operations,

Connected

10691069 views11 comment00 favs

I have full bars on my iPhone, but no one has called, texted, emailed, IM'd, tweeted, Facebook'd, Tumblr messaged, or commented on my blog and I wonder if I am really connected, if my iPhone hasn't suddenly started to malfunction and I am really just all alone here,…

sunset pleadings

10691069 views44 comments44 favs

fade away glorious, golden delicious

Vivian Considers Vivian

10691069 views22 comments00 favs

She's been considering her breasts more now.

The Pheasant

10691069 views11 comment11 fav

Times they were a blazing, the Pheasant met God in Piccadilly meadows

For Colleen McCullough

10691069 views22 comments11 fav

She was reading The Thorn Birds. Always on her side, in a pink cotton housecoat. The Buddha rested on his side. And drank milk. We drank plenty of milk, but, being Catholic, didn't know anything about Buddha. I would sit there. Piles of books were around. I…

Terror Management Theory: The Joy Knee

10691069 views00 comments00 favs

I could reach out and grab this world by the p...

Life As a Beach

10691069 views22 comments11 fav

Life is a beach, not an enormous ashtry.

A Good Provider -- take 2

10681068 views00 comments00 favs

She lay on the cool white linoleum floor. Her eyes pointed at the dust under the refrigerator, but she didn't see it. She didn't see anything anymore. She heard the clock ticking out the seconds. Thoughts ricocheted around her brain at the speed of light, making …

Paper Thin

10681068 views88 comments55 favs

She slipspaper thinshe ripspaper thin

Time

10681068 views00 comments00 favs

The sky was painfully blue that day. So bright, so cheerful that attempting to look at it, to probe its depths would cause one's eyes to tear up. There was not a cloud in sight, just miles and miles of blue as far as the eye…

Kraken

10681068 views22 comments22 favs

A likeness borne in silk, rich contours of canvas giving life to the seascape.

Foster's Landing

10681068 views1313 comments88 favs

my stomach is empty, but it is my eyes that are hungry

Four Haikus

10681068 views22 comments00 favs

The crow in darkness;visual palpitationsunder the street lamp. In the dark morningmy car disrupts the still cold;a blister on earth.Never mind the cat.The Japanese Peace Lillywill steal your last breath.The blacktop highway;a rough scab to cover thedeep man-cut…

Vegan Says "Kill"

10681068 views00 comments00 favs

....sucking my blood kind of draws the line.

Too Much Info

10681068 views22 comments11 fav

  It wasn't meant for our brains to take in so much information, I hear someone say on NPR The information age, seems to be suited for me, I can't get enough of it, it floods my mind and nerves, Reading wikipedia and blogs for hours and You tube   And im…

Mar–a-Lago

10671067 views66 comments55 favs

A petition submitted to the Planning Department of Palm Beach Florida requests a zoning variance applied to Mar — a — Lago. Studies, backed by research, have defined Mar-a- Lago, an ideal location for shelter and protection for immigrants, fleeing from…

Surprise!

10671067 views22 comments11 fav

We were fleeing Hurricane Katrina We stopped somewhere in Texas at a roadside diner But found a sign that said it was closed All of a sudden as we sat there in our car The shop’s owner knocked on the window And asked what he could get for us

Fire

10671067 views11 comment00 favs

She left the bathroom and slammed the bedroom door. He heard the lock close.

'We're generically stamped. Aren't you generically stamped?'

10671067 views00 comments00 favs

[FUCK!]

Testament Part 4 of 6

10671067 views33 comments44 favs

We once saw giants in the clouds and in/ connected points of stars, and named/ them, gods. We placed them in their high-halled villas,/ on the mountaintop, to game and frolic

icing on the cake

10661066 views00 comments00 favs

The sexuality comes over us in waves. We need to hold things, someone. The women, the men, side by side, our features blending together. We notice the small curved lines at the corners of the mouth. We notice everything. And the animal is still inside m

This Was Called War at One Time

10661066 views1111 comments66 favs

The woman broke the law with that scream. I would say that there was pleasure in it, for her. I would also estimate that ten or fifteen men saw it, ten or fifteen men plus me.

The Seagulls at the Parking Lot

10661066 views77 comments66 favs

Turningturning the pale grey spot.She sits in her carin the parking lotwith the radio onleaning back picking a thin piece of skin from her finger.Turningturningthe seagulls move aroundand aroundabove the asphaltas though it was the wave,with…

4 short shorts

10661066 views33 comments11 fav

How to remove moon stains from slacks!?

Rent

10661066 views1717 comments1414 favs

My real parents lived about 200 miles in the other direction from where we came. But long ago I determined they were too real.

A Pantry of Unusual Sounds

10661066 views22 comments11 fav

The cabinets in D’s kitchen are a pantry of unusual sounds. It is where they are stored.

In the Month of Halloween

10661066 views22 comments11 fav

Did you ever have a morning when you just did not want to wake up? Sleep can be marvelous, but dreams not so much. If you believe, here is a tale. "She was awakened by the mushing of her pillow around where her head lay squarely on it. It was not violent,

Intentions

10661066 views11 comment11 fav

As Susan drove the last stretch home, she couldn't help but press the accelerator a bit deeper than usual. Her car zipped passed the neighborhood houses, which were of mostly brick construction, with two car garages and freshly mulched islands of spring flowers.…