Most read stories

EQ

10651065 views00 comments00 favs

.

Sunday Morning Series- One: What I Learned in Sunday School

10651065 views1313 comments66 favs

I learned He was a Schmuck when, on/ the mountaintop, with Abraham,/ I waited on His call: one Isaac, neat.

Puppet On a String

10651065 views66 comments33 favs

Spring break that year, (1963) I spent nearly every minute with Lynda. Her taste for sex was unquenchable once we’d gotten started. We did it in every position possible. The sitting position in the front seat of the car, which my brother Herb had to expla

The Pain of Memory

10651065 views22 comments00 favs

It's awfulYou remember everythingYou never forgetEvery insultEvery bruiseEvery scarEvery burnEvery nickEvery blow You never forgetI never forget The pain of memoryYou think you forgetBut you never forgetThe dread of some wholly misfortuneThe pain that left you…

Enè Ioh

10641064 views00 comments00 favs

Hello, I am Enè Ioh, I have come to to tell you a story that takes place within the place. I start at the place; I go to the place. Here we are, at the place. I am now at the place. I know what I say is of no consequence and I will be killed for it. It means so…

Enter Ghost

10641064 views44 comments33 favs

I love that moment in Hamlet when the Ghost first appears. It seems so real, thanks in large measure to Horatio's sober outlook & initial skepticism. It's really happening. Their eyes are popping out of their heads. And it makes me wonder, how would I react if I…

Basic Principles of Physical Space

10641064 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

be kind to your pieces…/torn

10641064 views33 comments33 favs

Pieces that said shrug a shrug and then another and one to right with the eyes that squint and one to left with rhythm that never left. And piece after piece, after piece they stich themselves, née weave a tapestry that is the dance your very walk swayed

Tough Guy

10641064 views99 comments77 favs

He remembers his father’s concrete slab hands. Balled into fists they resembled kettlebells.

On Perfect Marble

10641064 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

I am the Ship

10641064 views00 comments00 favs

I'm the vessel that'll sniff out the wharf's of old,they call me bold for bounding seas,they whispers rumors of my unstable ease,what's a life without vanishing into the falling pink fold,Ululating tides spray brisk bounties of water on board,squabs with new wings…

Tingles

10641064 views22 comments00 favs

Your steering wheel is hot.You don't feel it though, I mean,It tingles some but it doesn't have that crawling, stinging feelingLike the way you'd feel it if they hadn't called.Not the way other people in Arizona feel it.You don't feel you or her or anything in…

The Summer They Walked On the Moon

10641064 views22 comments00 favs

That summer I fucked Kathi R. from Wheaton, as much as I could. She called me Professor Obsessor. She was short and practically without tits, but must have had the longest arms, because she could somehow reach down around my ass while I was on top and she

Appreciating the Adagio because of Hardaway

10641064 views55 comments11 fav

Gary wrote in beautiful brevity of this most fabled story told with strings. Of it's breathtaking majesty and boundless power.

Exoskeleton

10641064 views33 comments11 fav

Watching himself dissolve comes with no sense of meaning. It is simply what it is. He finds that curious.

Like the Goats

10631063 views2525 comments1010 favs

...

The Longer

10631063 views22 comments00 favs

The longer this goes on the worse it gets.

Midnight in Arizona

10631063 views33 comments11 fav

I am in a war against the literal. I have sewn these words together to make a stand of birch. I wander the earth gathering moon shadows and swords. Kerosene dots punctuate the Dakota night. An apparition of words hops through a calculus problem and falls into a…

Until, the Stars

10631063 views00 comments00 favs

Until the stars form last nightI zoom out with an empty heart.Whose forgiveness forgesseas of overabundance, parksUnder the river's bed as magazine?Jet heavy, my tenses shift in an operation between two frightened doctors. I'm hiding onside: the lines & in the branches…

Cottontail Morning

10631063 views1313 comments66 favs

A murder of bunnies nibble the St. Augustine,

A heart that is not broken...

10621062 views99 comments88 favs

She'd had every reason to believe he'd be difficult, though he wasn't.

Aging Bikers and Biker Chicks on Vacation

10621062 views55 comments44 favs

Chin beards, flannel shirts, Levis no boots anymore, just loose sandals their chicks with double triple multiple chins falling asleep on their own palms

(we can only hope)

10621062 views22 comments33 favs

And you should know, every woman smiles at a man buying flowers, because … we can imagine. We can only hope.

Dude Fish

10621062 views11 comment11 fav

the wiggly word / floats toward the crowd

Gather Round

10621062 views44 comments22 favs

When they first brought me home, I was their pride and joy. Then, one day, they put me in this wooden box.

The Box

10621062 views00 comments00 favs

It was just after lunch when they found the box.

Rib Songs

10621062 views55 comments33 favs

A thrum of imminent sentience-

Query

10611061 views1212 comments99 favs

The murder of two teens late one humid night on a tiny rural Virginia island brings a dark, malignant mystery edging into the village known as Leicester Court House.

The lady makes a phone call.

10611061 views00 comments11 fav

Of course it’s because she’s been drinking. Will she regret this? I don’t understand it but maybe it is something she has thought about for some time.

Oneiric

10611061 views33 comments00 favs

- Of or relating to dreams