Most read stories

Lemon Citron

11581158 views66 comments66 favs

Here it comes at long last. We just can't do it like that again. We don't have the same time. But something's wanting something more to be more than this. Here it comes again. But you bailed on me the last time around. Went silent as a…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 56

11581158 views22 comments11 fav

Airports are always a casino, said Oriana

Ah, the Trouble (Has Finally Arrived)

11581158 views77 comments44 favs

with all these little battle worn pieces of history surrounding us all the time is that they don't really make up for the terrible news of just now. Those people showed us what they showed us. Good for them.We're the direct explosion of their…

The Cook

11581158 views33 comments22 favs

“She said I hurt her and my father, the both of them.” Rose patted her round belly, carried high and in front, likely a boy. “I can see that.”

From Day One

11581158 views55 comments11 fav

On the first night I met you, you fell in love with the waitress. She had a loud voice and a strong Irish accent. She wore an oversized t-shirt to minimize her large breasts, and baggy jeans. No makeup; crooked teeth. But you…

Hospital, or Depression III

11581158 views88 comments55 favs

Yes sir, I confess there have been timeswhen I did not care how young the earth isor take pride in how she sprang back to greenregardless of how hard the snow fought.There have been times, yes, when I lacked the willto notice such things and knew that belowthe water's…

Kegel Exercise

11581158 views99 comments66 favs

1.It was unfair to my time and my small kitchen rug that it took me two days to finish reading Meg Pokrass' “The Big Dipper,” pp. 10-12

Jacob Ellis

11571157 views22 comments22 favs

My name is Jacob Ellis. I was thinking about school and all those years and years and how they go eventually away but always remain somewhere in the mind as if imprinted on an akashic record. I was dizzy there, dizzy with dread and always on the verge of falling.…

A Cloud of Words for Winter

11571157 views1313 comments1515 favs

What I would say

Abundance

11571157 views33 comments22 favs

A young woman in shorts removes her sunglasses, putting them on top of her head in order to study the little girl sitting on her father’s lap on the bus. “I want to get me one of those,” she says, with her dark eyes smiling.

Canary House

11571157 views44 comments33 favs

The items were not selected. The people were not forced to choose, with tears and a suffocating feeling.

You leave me

11571157 views44 comments00 favs

laying with you, thinking with you, breathing with you

One Man's Post

11571157 views22 comments11 fav

There was a bottleneck ahead. We slowed down single-file, me behind, to wait our turn to pass the doorway of a vacant storefront church. In it, a lone black man sat atop an empty plastic milk crate. Nobody looked at him; they were all slowing down and cro

Dangling Participles

11571157 views00 comments00 favs

Flies as big as raisins sucked spit off his lip as he slept. Not sleep in the strictest sense of the word because guys like him don't sleep, they merely avoid life between rampages. And this guy, well, he's gonna wish he'd avoided life a bit longer because when he…

Old Love Passes By Like a Landscape

11571157 views55 comments44 favs

from a moving train. The lost ball inthe tall grass still wants for no one. AndI'm suposed to pretend? You got yoursmile from something, not someone. But it took all your long hair in the process. You've been looking for the one true grace, the ultimate…

Moulin de la Galette. Renoir

11571157 views00 comments00 favs

Light seen as sunlight through a Japanese shade Red through many of their mouths, and often their hair but also spots of a duller red on the back of this gentleman's coat and the back of his head The woman stares at him without smiling from thre

Why Don't You Just Take Off Your Top

11561156 views00 comments00 favs

You were there at the beginning almost, when I wanted to write about the dead spider I smashed on my bedroom wall, comparing it to the blue/grey smoke of the blown-off fireworks drifting overhead.

Harry

11561156 views33 comments33 favs

in a complete rage he lifted his entire golf bag full of clubs over his head and threw them into the creek.

The Short but Fulfilled Life of a Dream

11561156 views00 comments00 favs

It kind of reminded him of a giant, real life game and not virtual reality. He was weaving in and out of cars so fast that you might have thought he was knitting or something.

commitment

11561156 views22 comments00 favs

but isn't that the case in most long-term, committed relationships?

nestled in swirling chaos; pineal pinecone

11561156 views55 comments44 favs

Both my Nana and my mother have blond hair…as a child I thought most women of European descent tended towards this color, this particular hue of straw, and threads of gold woven together. I had been somewhere as a nine year old, I…

Vivian Considers Vivian

11561156 views22 comments00 favs

She's been considering her breasts more now.

Treasure Hunting Brings Sunnis, Shiites Together

11561156 views00 comments00 favs

Muslim factions are getting a helping hand to bridge the gap that has divided Shiites from Sunnis since Mohammed died--a new version of the Peace Corps that uses recreational metal detection to build friendship.

Walking My Lobster Back Home

11561156 views22 comments00 favs

Gee but it’s great after being out late, Walking my lobster back home. There’s little risk that she’ll turn into bisque, Walking my lobster back home.

Swings

11561156 views00 comments00 favs

My backyard was first Grass tickling my bare feet Skipping along the bottoms of my toes. I broke my arm there; I always hurt myself Swinging. The fair was next, grownup kids Having adult fun Eating carnival food and drinking grownup things When no one was looking. …

Mar–a-Lago

11551155 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…

US Navy Honors Coltrane With Birthday Concert

11551155 views66 comments00 favs

As unlikely as it may seem, John Coltrane was in fact a member of the U.S. Navy Band in 1947 in Honolulu.

Handiwork

11551155 views44 comments00 favs

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

THE ROOF NEEDS REPAIRED & ALL YOU CAN THINK OF IS RAIN, RAIN, RAIN

11551155 views00 comments00 favs

no, you said. like how the moon strangles with the side we can't see.

An Exquisite Fall From Grace

11551155 views00 comments00 favs

He lay on a wooden pallet, which he had placed inside a cardboard box that might have once held a refrigerator. Except the box was labeled “Robotic Endoscopic Surgery System.” His head was propped on a gym bag that contained all his possessions. Outside, it…