Most read stories

Buzz

11141114 views44 comments00 favs

Why is this woman smiling? Because she’s the Real Mona Lisa, that’s why

The Last Thing

11141114 views1111 comments1010 favs

The last thing I remember is falling below the water, lungs filling with liquid.

"Dial Back the Snark" Speakers Scramble for Limited Gigs

11141114 views33 comments11 fav

“‘Dial Back the Snark’ is an attempt to fight the cynicism that’s corroding America’s social fabric,” Myers says, mixing his metaphors. “It’s spreading like wildfire."

On the Country Roads Tonight: I Don't Care - song

11141114 views44 comments44 favs

Wheels are spinning On the country roads tonight I’m driving all alone No one else in sight And the wind’s in my hair And I don’t care Yeah, the wind’s in my hair And I don’t care

Spellbinding

11141114 views77 comments66 favs

If she weaves words that are true enough

Vivian Considers Vivian

11141114 views22 comments00 favs

She's been considering her breasts more now.

Kegel Exercise

11141114 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

Fast Or Slow

11131113 views55 comments11 fav

Some people burn slowWhile others burn fastAnd betweenAll kind of things happen:There's happiness sadnessJoy and angerSicknessThings happenAnd when you are in theWorldThe worlds molds youWith all it elixirs and tempationsThe good timesThen come the wounds and scarsAnd the…

Love, your daughter

11131113 views1010 comments77 favs

You gave me all of the power, and none of the power.

Selfie

11131113 views44 comments33 favs

a few numbers/ and a handful of their operations,

Making Waves in Sculptural Math

11131113 views55 comments33 favs

It was a summer full of rage and discontent. The air had a new taste to it, reminiscent of the tang of battery acid.

Jasika by the Mountain

11131113 views33 comments11 fav

There was the small wooden structure near the base of the mountain. It had weathered many storms and its walls talked about the scars of this. In the hills to the west various cries came out from feral animals that seemed to go linger that autumn. But it had been a…

For Colleen McCullough

11131113 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…

Sinning and Sinning and Sinning

11131113 views33 comments11 fav

Then I learned she was revealing all our sexcapades to this young priest. Forgive me, father, I have sinned. We had sex outdoors against a tree in Wisconsin and the tree was blending with our act and becoming one with my back rubbing up against the bark

Oh Captain, Good Captain: Part II

11131113 views00 comments00 favs

As the waves rapped in query I studied some words so sad Words she likely knew Words seemed so pale ‘That is not it, at all That is not what I meant at all' Is this what she thought? She leaves needle and thread Down here for dead A fondness for…

Terror Management Theory: The Joy Knee

11131113 views00 comments00 favs

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

Austin, 22

11131113 views22 comments00 favs

A thrill seeker before midnight - but closer to twilight ...

Mar–a-Lago

11121112 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…

Leave It To Cleavage

11121112 views00 comments00 favs

Thus was Rent-a- Rat, Inc born. At first it was Rent-a-Rugrat, but we changed it so the Army wouldn’t be onto us. Our first headquarters was out of a damned tent on Red Square, but we would get the hell out of there as soon as we could muster the necessar

Brother Dream

11121112 views44 comments44 favs

It’s always daylight there My brother comes running down the sidewalk holding out his arms and calling my name He’s wearing suspenders. He’s gotten thinner in heaven He embraces me warmly wanting us to be friends I give up trying to resist

Topsy Was a Flip Flopper

11121112 views00 comments00 favs

Topsy was a flip flopper ... Topsy was a crazy complainer.

Oh Captain, Good Captain: Part IV

11121112 views00 comments00 favs

Oh Captain, Good Captain I went where you asked of me But now I'm back home And things are so clear to me The liquors been drained So my eyes have dried finally I'm seeking her out So her voice can stop haunting me When I see his face I'll…

Results

11121112 views11 comment11 fav

“I don't want to talk about this right now.” “Oh you don't want to…

the sleep of rain

11121112 views33 comments22 favs

Soon you too will lie down with the sleep of rain, telling them a thing or two, grown old by having lived through your youth, that is all. Lying from the side of your mouth so often that you take up lying on your side, to try getting an eyeful of the of

Sweet Dream

11121112 views00 comments00 favs

you are in Faulkner’s dream -a lost pilgrim in cheap shoes

My Book of Frozen Ponds

11111111 views88 comments55 favs

We broke our hearts rather than sit in your reversible seats with the plain brown paper packages tied on our laps, we did so together. You don't want to hear about that. It gets too close to the actual murder of love. I…

justice in obverse and reverse

11111111 views55 comments44 favs

seriously: let defendants choose their coin, / execute their own calls, make their own coin flips― / attentive referee, no need for a court.

I'm Hoping, I'm Reaching

11111111 views99 comments44 favs

I'm hoping, I'm reaching, I'm scratching the sky...

Agrarian Joys of Ornamental Lawns

11111111 views77 comments66 favs

The leaves/ that clung through February/ fall, dung brown,

Cleopatra Goes Shopping

11111111 views22 comments22 favs

Cleopatra fills her cart with food and cosmetics until it is overflowing. She proceeds out of the store. The clerks stop running products over their scanners and gaze in incredulity, and confusion.