Most read stories

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 39

653653 views33 comments11 fav

—Francesco, did you come to bed last night?

Love, your daughter

653653 views1010 comments77 favs

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

The Trash of Spring

653653 views88 comments33 favs

Winter offers pitting salty sand clouds

Why is There Scientist Instead of Wisdom?

653653 views00 comments00 favs

Scientism/Natural Science is an Idealism:Diogenes is said to have refuted Zeno's theories of motion by taking a stroll. We must presuppose that there is such a thing as a stroll before there can be such a thing as a stroll. We must think that there is such a thing…

A True Story?

653653 views22 comments11 fav

A couple, an unlikely match, came together for a brief interlude of time. It was marked, almost a kind of bar code; beginning, middle and almost end. Almost end was not "the" end because it was seemingly fated that they continue the journey through life, if not together, at…

The Cliffs at Fayburrow

653653 views44 comments55 favs

Whatever the world is it is alsoyou. This leaves me smiling. I'm glad you arein it. I'm glad for the deepest colorblue like the Mediterranean sea,for instance. Baby orangutans. Forclouds and mushrooms and seahorses. Songs fromtreetops. Whatever the world has it has…

A heart that is not broken...

652652 views99 comments88 favs

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

2 Queers on a Seaside Bench Discussing the Ocean

652652 views55 comments44 favs

An impromptu anniversary weekend up the coast.Our hotel was parallel with the highway, which was parallel with the aforementioned bench, which was parallel with a footpath, which was parallel with the shore, which was slowly eroded by the Pacific. He was sitting on the…

Surprise!

652652 views44 comments22 favs

We were fleeing hurricane Katrina. We stopped somewhere in Texas at a roadside diner, but found a sign that said it was closed. We were so hungry. All of a sudden as we sat there in our car, the shop's owner knocked on the window and asked what he could g

Bukowski in Hollywood and the Collating Party at his Apartment

652652 views22 comments11 fav

They called him Hank. We piled in a car and drove up from Irvine to his little bungalow apartment on DeLongpre near Hollywood Blvd. for a collating party for this Mag he started with Neely called “Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns.” No shit, that wa

Burn

652652 views99 comments77 favs

No one believed me when I told them this: I took all of my novels and tossed them into the fire.

Studies for Restroom Wall Art

652652 views1111 comments77 favs

Sometimes all that’s/ left is pissing

Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer

651651 views00 comments00 favs

Today is the audition for “The Bright Stream,” and I believe I am in tip-top shape to win the prize role–potato carrier! To train, I have been hauling rocks up the stairs to my apartment.

Texturality

650650 views1414 comments88 favs

A.The poem of rational progression is dulling.Make the leap. Go beyond juxtaposition to collision.We like poetry that does double duty, triple duty, quadruple duty. We like poetry that mixes the grit, poetry that has the texture of complexity.Reason asserts an…

The Naked Shadows Inside Her Dress

650650 views66 comments44 favs

When the truth is spoken, we don’t know Where to look, as if we only know someone Has gotten away with something big Or stolen someone’s heart, knowing how easy It was, how fragile, how true to itself So open and weightless, without guile

Bad Boys

650650 views22 comments11 fav

Her name was Carrie. And yes, it was love at first sight. Yes, she was a client, and you were supposed to keep your hands off the clients. Everyone in real estate knew that. She came into my office and took a seat in the reception area. I had a listin

Take You Me for a Sponge, My Lord?

649649 views1212 comments99 favs

Who does that besides Kafka, Arreola, and Steven Wright?

The Wood Hover (a parody of GM Hopkins)

649649 views55 comments22 favs

My trousers turn when her these eyesights earn is learned in light,Like limn of laugh or limbs hers — do I know her, no? — but gauzy Greyhair ravings greyscale havens of Old Jake whose floozy Wooed, ne'er raised the wood that, pencil-perched, arrests…

Composition for 250 mg. Capsule in Yellow and Black

649649 views11 comment11 fav

What you have just experienced is an entertainment of a new type, one made possible by a convergence of the latest advances in pharmacology and technology.

Errol

649649 views99 comments88 favs

He prided himself on being not menacing like a bear.

This Story Will Break Your Heart

649649 views1414 comments77 favs

The first years of her life she had been owned by a bear hunter and trained to hunt bear, a terrible turn of luck for her.

Endless

649649 views11 comment11 fav

My grief is made up of Demons fighting to Claw their way first Out of my eyes

Soliloquies and Interludes of the Interior Zombies

649649 views33 comments11 fav

As parents watched my skin grow paler, hair/ go raven, and demeanor change from pert/ to smiling calm, they started to complain.

On Being Hailed by the Former Head Cheerleader of One's Midwestern High School Whilst Crossing Boston Common

649649 views11 comment00 favs

I turned and gaped- In horror gasped-- There was no clear escape. Down Winter Street, up Park perhaps? Too late-she had me in her grasp.

A Little Wine (to put you in the idle reverie)

648648 views44 comments44 favs

Amused yet? It doesn't matter and that doesn't meananything. But eternity in hell is just another knifethey use to keep you looking in the wrong direction. We can have fun. Please don't let them break your heart like that. They do their jobs because they no…

Scenario

648648 views00 comments00 favs

She was nice. From the first sight, I already knew that. Someone will easily recognize her eyes. Her eyes are playful. I like game. “If you'd been told that you would die tomorrow, how'd you do?” She asked. I had no…

Music

648648 views77 comments44 favs

Without a creator

The Mangy Tiger

648648 views00 comments00 favs

As we entered the circus tent We passed the big cats' wagon. A sleeping tiger lay in what I knew was hay.

Imaginary Friend

648648 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.

They Are Lying

647647 views55 comments44 favs

like the icecold yellow wolves they are when they say they believe in love. What they're really doing is trying to game the outcome in their hungry for your living blood(y) favors. This shouldn't really…