Most read stories

Bat (n.)

10191019 views44 comments44 favs

Flying mammal with thin membrane forelimb adaptive wings. Amazing number of species from fruit-eating to insectivores. All capable of landing in your hair at night.

Old Love Passes By Like a Landscape

10191019 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…

Runt Of the Litter

10191019 views11 comment00 favs

I remember so many things … do you remember who I am yet? I attached pictures to jog your memory, including the house on Euclid where I lived. That’s my high school graduation photo. I was wearing my hair short that year, and blonde and natural,

77 Words About Nothing (Half and Half)

10181018 views00 comments00 favs

Being forced to spend blood money on libations isn't stoic. It's shitty.

Basic Principles of Physical Space

10181018 views66 comments44 favs

a body lost in thought stays hopelessly lost in thought for as long as the latte lasts and the coffee shop stays open and the moms don’t gather with their baby carriages and the bums don’t bum overly much and the trust funders don’t lose too

Chills On My Opposite Hip

10181018 views66 comments11 fav

You gave me chills on my opposite hip whenever you touched me from behind, when we spooned under the rough woolen blanket in your basement. Whenever your essence touched my life like that. Just like when you said, “You came, that’s all.” That’s all? T

Imaginary Friend

10181018 views55 comments55 favs

"Where've you been?" the image in the mirror asked. "I haven't seen you since yesterday," she said. "Yeah, I miss you too," he said.

I Said God Damn

10181018 views33 comments33 favs

the space between two antelopes is a canyon,

a type of lullabye

10181018 views11 comment11 fav

the rain on the windowhammers out a symphonyfor ninety Underwoodsand oh what a savage performanceit does take to soothe this beast

Liberation, 2

10181018 views00 comments00 favs

It was Phil Collins on MTV, “In the Air Tonight,” that helped cement it for me. It was the beginning of the end of my marriage. Well, not exactly the true beginning of the end. You would have to go pretty far back, honestly, to find the true root of it

Credits

10171017 views00 comments11 fav

I fuck myself. I say never three times. There is a movie in this movie in this. I say hello. Fish are named after capitals of invisible cities. I say so. There is a movie in this movie in. I say flush for a dumpster. The sound of a sound never made. I say equations for…

Exit Strategy

10171017 views00 comments00 favs

I was still on track to be your average American with a six inch dick and a pair of sneakers.

Patio Joe, 55

10171017 views11 comment11 fav

Patio Joe, 55 and constantly smelling of swill, got his name because he sold and stocked patio furniture at the neighborhood Kmart. With his pockets full of dusty rags and crushed Old Golds, he'd daydream about check out girls.But I suppose you'd have to call them check out…

Duet

10171017 views00 comments00 favs

Love is music timed in heartbeat move to rhythms ages old

Unsaid Words

10171017 views11 comment00 favs

Some things are said. Others, never.

The Museum of Inner Light

10171017 views44 comments33 favs

On the way to The Museum of Inner Light Expect delays Expect bumps in the road Expect potholes and such Expect a murder of crows Rolling acorns over the rooftops But what I want to know is who Who eats a butterfly On the way to

On Perfect Marble

10171017 views44 comments44 favs

So the subtle shadow settles onto perfect marble on the floor of the ocean when the sunlight blooms over space and time but only in the near future as it has always been

The Joint is Out of Time: A Journal of the Plague Year, Day 108

10171017 views99 comments44 favs

History in the unmaking.

gravelortian part 21

10171017 views22 comments22 favs

Happy is a look we are trying to wear better

Memories of the Beach

10171017 views99 comments11 fav

The smell of Coppertone Suntan Lotion always brings back memories of the beach. I remember you rubbing it on my stomach and you kept moving lower and lower. I had on a bikini bottom (very daring) and you rubbed your finger all along the rim of it just a

Mountain godfather

10171017 views77 comments55 favs

“Look them straight in the eye, keep your mouth shut unless spoken to, and make no sudden moves.”

Twentieth Century Chats, in Six Acts

10171017 views99 comments55 favs

M. CALLAGHAN: I’ve got a lot on my mind. You’re drunk, aren’t you? COL. MORD: Good idea! DEATH: Well, there is no shame in that. J. KIDDING: Everyone suffers. Can you lend me your cat? T. BURKULAR: I don’t know, sir. I don’t follow political issues .

My Composite Girlfriend

10161016 views00 comments11 fav

Her dad regaled me with stories of his up-from-the-bootstraps climb out of poverty on the hard-scrabble, rough-and-tumble Lower East Side of New York, where he founded the leading supplier of hyphens to writers of purple prose.

The Seagulls at the Parking Lot

10161016 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…

I Love a Man Who Whistles

10161016 views33 comments33 favs

“Hey! You can’t be whistling on Greyhound,” the bus driver said, looking up in the rearview mirror.

Here I Am

10161016 views00 comments00 favs

The paper in his typewriter

dresses on a rat

10161016 views00 comments00 favs

I heard about you in advance. You were not going into a party looking for dresses on a rat. Nor shades of blue rubber, nor symbols of hot purity. I knew what you were after, so I put myself in front of you. You could not mistake me for anything other th

The PRIMA DONNA & THE CHAUFFEUR: A Love Story! (in full, living colour!)

10161016 views00 comments00 favs

You shouldn't look at my undies! I'm gonna kill you if you look at my undies again, you goddamn bastard! :)

Sidewalk Opera

10161016 views44 comments00 favs

She is left feeling like she has missed a stop, that she's at the last stop, that she's somewhere she wasn't meant to be.

POTATOES

10161016 views00 comments00 favs

The hospital was a welcome relief. A short ambulance ride, a nice man holding your arm in a make-shift tourniquet, the red sirens flashing and screeching. Then you were…