Most read stories

Five Stories From a Funeral

10671067 views44 comments22 favs

1. Premonition “He had a premonition,” Agnes, the widow, said. “He said he was going to die.” “Ma,” Gregg said, “he always said he was going to die. He was the Fred Sanford of Central Ave.” “But this time it came…

1978 What I Wanted

10671067 views33 comments22 favs

What I wanted was to rewind the film

'We're generically stamped. Aren't you generically stamped?'

10671067 views00 comments00 favs

[FUCK!]

The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

10671067 views44 comments44 favs

Now your dreams are headed for the Rhyme or Reason Convention where they try to convince you you can do this Trying to make sense of everything

Lines in Contemplation of a Tragic Accident

10671067 views22 comments22 favs

There’s Julie-she’s the cineaste– Au courant woman with a past.

Three Eights

10671067 views33 comments11 fav

He fingered his remaining chips and the usual nervousness tingled at his spine.

Lavender Blur

10671067 views66 comments55 favs

Donna and I get out of the car...

Quantum Mechanics

10671067 views22 comments11 fav

It seems a little solipsistic/ but may indeed be evidence of God// given its mystery and caprice.

Shots Below the Brow

10671067 views1010 comments77 favs

His self-assurance says/ he’s practiced in the art/ of self-deception

Trick Horse

10661066 views66 comments33 favs

The trick rider arches

Pimp and Circumstance

10661066 views33 comments33 favs

You may want to know who wrote the book of love, but all I really want to know is who, who sprayed the dinosaurs with graffiti? Not some poser Not some Svengali Not some last minute giraffe Not someone from the all girl’s band kn

Synthetic Terror

10661066 views00 comments11 fav

When I wake up, I am almost drowning in a sea of styrofoam.

4 short shorts

10661066 views33 comments11 fav

How to remove moon stains from slacks!?

Two Drunken Elves Don't Know a Good Hobbit When They See One

10661066 views55 comments55 favs

Wait for it. It's not the end of the world, it's the end of certain things. It's not that the sky is falling, it's that the coral reefs are dead or dying. I don't know how the ravaged trees have managed to survive this long with us breathing…

Up at Night

10661066 views00 comments00 favs

made of meat and born to breed

Guy Who's in Love With Modern Notions of Love and a Good Thing Happens to Him After a Bad Thing

10661066 views11 comment11 fav

Vince did a dance of love and courtship around the Camaro moving crab-like around it with his arms hung low, raising them only to lower his sunglasses.

By the Way, I'm pg.

10651065 views33 comments33 favs

Driving alone again across the U.S. I thought back on my first relationship. As I sd to my girlfriend, because I was always talking, Lynda, I sd, which was not her name, the darkness surrounds us, what can we do against it? Or

Nope

10651065 views22 comments11 fav

Can't cope.

Five Million Yen: Chapter 49

10651065 views00 comments00 favs

Besotted by an overload of scotch, Ben’s brain barely alerted him to loud knocking at his door.

The Hot Earth

10651065 views22 comments11 fav

don’t let them take away our youth, even if we have to beat the paint out of birds the way we did when we were young. I knew we could do anything, so let’s go back into that world and describe the new dawn all over again, even if we have to use the frozen

Wanna Ball?

10651065 views11 comment00 favs

She came out to Laguna Beach one time, and we saw each other at this party and she asked if I wanted to “ball,” as she put it. Yes, I said immediately, because I was famished and really wanted a lot of sex because I had just finished a three month project

The Transportation of Hens

10651065 views1212 comments44 favs

Sixteen hundred hens / suffocated / during the collection

Brooklyn Bridge

10651065 views11 comment00 favs

I’m walking funny but only comedians notice.

Feb 4

10651065 views22 comments22 favs

Walking with one giant dog and one tiny one, I didn’t feel at home, but I felt something better.

Morning Concerto

10651065 views55 comments33 favs

the continuous racket, a buzz saw trumpet

The Thank You Parade

10651065 views44 comments33 favs

Let's go now with those precisely marching shiny cloud band members, so eagerly clanging their golden sleeves togetherover there in the valley of new light, for instance. They can lift wholeoceans up, like baby children, for a seriesof smooches, all of…

Inaction (or a disease of consciousness)

10651065 views44 comments22 favs

“... More weighty than wisdom or wealth is a little folly" (Ecclesiastes)

Demons

10651065 views11 comment00 favs

Michael had become quite accustomed to his morning routine. He woke at seven, made his coffee, and stepped onto the front porch with a steaming cup and a fresh cigarette. He sat there for ten minutes or so, watching the neighborhood prepare for their d

Peeping to See if Spring has Sprung

10651065 views44 comments11 fav

as if someone had spilled a bag of perfect diamonds on the world.

Frankly, I'm Not Doing Well

10641064 views11 comment00 favs

TW: Self-harm. I wanted to write a mental health essay that wasn't all rah! rah! and with as little sentimentality as possible. Out of everything I've published, I've gotten the most feedback from this--people telling me it helped them understand a loved one better, etc.…