Most read stories

Old Soul

917917 views55 comments55 favs

She’s an old soul who was scattered to the winds like a thousand butterflies and a moth She has no center and flits from event to event and can’t miss out on a thing, because crikey, what if she missed something important? And the m

Forgiveness

917917 views00 comments00 favs

Inside a restroom stall, Herbert Casey Jr. took a soggy roll of cash from his boot and placed a quarter of the wet bills into his wallet. He divided the rest into the three empty pockets of his blue jeans.

Fall From Grace

917917 views00 comments00 favs

My usual angel fell from the ceiling and onto the couch.

(melody) floating inside an f

917917 views33 comments33 favs

Like the miserable sledgehammer I am, with no adjective in place to praise your moon, you are a hole well-worn into my favorite rock. I have only been able to reinvent this wronged language, in which being moved by…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 53

917917 views55 comments22 favs

—Francesco, said Zambrano, rising from his desk and putting his arm around Frank's shoulder. You and me, we're business partners. Regular capital crime buddies.

Apollo (1/2 - sections 1 and 2)

917917 views22 comments11 fav

Apollo …

Rise, Awake and Sing

917917 views00 comments00 favs

Rise, Awake and Sing“Your dead shall live, their corpses shall rise; awake and sing, you who lie in the dust”(Isaiah 26:19)A medieval town where nothing stands straight,where Kafka sat, slept, ate. Where timereads backwards on a Hebrew clock and a Golemwaits in…

I Knew Her Before She Was Kissy from Cadallaca, Even

917917 views00 comments00 favs

["Creed vs. discern" ... or ... "discern vs. creed"?]

Kicking Out the Enjambs

916916 views66 comments33 favs

I can be iambic when I want to / be!

Thanks for the Unsolicited Advice

916916 views44 comments33 favs

And what is it I’m supposed to do With all this unsolicited advice?

Woods

916916 views00 comments00 favs

We went to the woods to escape the failures that suck out your breath.

Schadenfreude

916916 views44 comments44 favs

It's 50/50 that you'll ever pad your knee enough to ever kneel on it. Your back hurts, the Orthapedist labels it arthritis. I think that means we're getting old, so I crawl up the tower of your body as I'm a little younger, more sprightly. You're a

whose soul do you have?

916916 views00 comments00 favs

Whose soul do you have, now? (How many are you?) There are several around here running from death, laughing, whom you might know. I burned ahead, with life. I found my own haughtiness had little bearing on the unbraided thread of pleasure (when I wa

putting our bones together

916916 views33 comments11 fav

I can still see us sitting, somewhere (was it in a café?) imagining what it would be like if our mutual faces blended into the future (the waiters posing as in a Manet painting.) Putting our bones together, our broad features, Bohemia and Sweden. Yo

Where the Subways Go Above Ground in Brooklyn

916916 views11 comment00 favs

The rocks are hot along the East RiverBelow hazy skies sent from Jersey Traffic.Pigeons peck at pieces of detritus,Walking calmly by pedestrians passingThrough the park during their allotted lunchHour. A girl with a strange frame —As if her ribs fused with her hips…

Lalla, Chuckachucka

916916 views22 comments11 fav

He cut the heads off, and in doing this, their eyes came off. He placed the four discs on the windowsill next to the petrified avocado pit and Chia Pet clay shell. The eyes glittered like globs of jam.

Suicide Watch

916916 views66 comments33 favs

It's good to be home. It's good to be home. It's very good to be home

Sometimes, It's Simply a Nice Dress

916916 views00 comments00 favs

Clarissa kept bringing up a particular subject in counseling. It seems two years before her affair, she had accused Jon of being attracted to her friend Steph. The evidence that led Clarissa to this conclusion, started at an office Christmas party. Steph reached…

Relationship Status

916916 views00 comments11 fav

I would use your towel,

The Oscillating Escalator (Excerpt), 2011

916916 views44 comments11 fav

We can imagine an escalator as being a (conveyor) belt between two different states of consciousness. On the one hand (beginning or end, depending on how you see it) the lower (or higher) level, and on the other hand a progression or pro-‘motion’ of the f

Mirror, Handheld

916916 views1414 comments1515 favs

the making by taking away

On Tuesday

916916 views99 comments88 favs

When they talk, they put their hands like a cup around their mouth

Leave It To Cleavage

915915 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

Surprise!

915915 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

the return of Ulysses

915915 views22 comments00 favs

Then you came home from your travels and stole her, your new queen, though she was ready. And raped my heart as you entered the new passage to heaven. And I cried out your name on the river, and swam in the warm waters behind you, naming your new name a

Thirty Seconds

915915 views55 comments33 favs

Some guys get by on hope or hate or both. Some lose their minds, if they brought them in the first place.

Galactic Bow Shock Romance

915915 views00 comments00 favs

Somewhere outside of the future I am seeing Weinberg, the duplicate failed mimeographed onto the front of ourselvescompromised composite grown from a codependent blastocyte talking to the boxes on the edge of tomorrow, collectiblecrystal lined folliclesharvested at the peak…

The Audacity of My Ass

915915 views22 comments22 favs

But then there were car windows bashed out on both sides Glass on the ground like Kristallnacht

Chinese farmer gets life in prison for evading highway tolls

915915 views22 comments00 favs

Bring me your poor, your tired, your hungry anyone skilled at evading highway tolls Bring me your escape artists dangling upside down in a straight-jacket from the sides of tall buildings Don’t let them starve in the prisons of the world Bri

actual flesh

915915 views22 comments00 favs

With nipples like those, rose-colored, we could have fed a nation!