Most read stories

The Fallen Oak

20402040 views11 comment11 fav

Jonas Griffin stared out the bay window as he drank his morning cup, his eyes gleaming with something between wistfulness and disdain at Reynold who sat patiently in the adjacent yard, leaning against the majestic oak tree that towered in its hundred year

The Massacre

20402040 views55 comments55 favs

 …

Ordinary People

20402040 views11 comment33 favs

While I didn’t like to see Courtney swat smokes out of his mouth and admonish him, saying “Cigarettes. Bad. Fire. Bad,” her home was such a beautiful place, with its real wood and two TV and all...

When a Bowl Hits a Tree

20392039 views1919 comments88 favs

You would think when a bowl hits a tree the sound would be fierce, a loud clatter as stoneware explodes on birch bark dispersing shards in daffodils and grape muscari, but the noise is gentle, a thudding clink like empty bourbon bottles rattling hollow in…

Tobacco

20392039 views1717 comments1515 favs

When you prime tobacco the old way . . .

Suzanne

20392039 views99 comments44 favs

And I watched, from her warm bed, the curtains dancing in the window

The Highwayman Teaches Me About Sex and Death

20392039 views1010 comments88 favs

hooves moon dark latch eyes rope / Bess the landlord's daughter, the landlord's blackeyed daughter / gun breasts dress shame shouts blood blood blood

About My Dad

20392039 views88 comments22 favs

My dad drove a Model A Roadster and had a photo taken of him on a hunting trip up in Wisconsin with one leather boot up on the running board and a .22 caliber pistol in his hand like Ernest Hemingway and Clark Gable rolled into one My dad ro

How To Pound Meat

20382038 views1010 comments55 favs

"She has a lot of time to think these days. What else is a woman to do with the rest of her life?"

Catalog of Disappeared Things

20382038 views1616 comments1111 favs

He runs a mail-order business from a storefront and distributes a catalog of disappeared things.

Helen O., Grand Central, 1959

20382038 views1919 comments1111 favs

No snippet to see, here. The piece is so short a snippet would be the whole thing.

Old Vibrations

20382038 views2323 comments2020 favs

There's always a sound, something triggering the fear.

Love Story

20382038 views66 comments22 favs

You longed to rip off her butterfly wings and watch her scream in agony. You ached to carve the steel from her eyes.

I Am Wearing Stolen Socks

20382038 views11 comment00 favs

I am wearing stolen socks. Not because I haven't any of my own, and not because they are an exact fit. Only because they soothe my emptiness inside.

A Monologue About Skyscrapers

20382038 views66 comments66 favs

Everyday the buildings seem to be getting taller and taller.

Sociopathic Medicine

20382038 views11 comment11 fav

True love may last forever, but the most I've ever gotten out of a lab assistant is two years, five months, three weeks, twelve days, and fifteen hours. And he was the exception.

Birds Fly(a chapbook of seven+ poems)

20372037 views99 comments88 favs

Birds FlySeven Poemsby Darryl Pricefor Charlotte and Mel, as always"We should insist on joy in spite of everything."--Tom Robbins“I don't need your love. I don't need you to understand. I just need you to listen.”—Perfume Genius1. I Want to Sing to…

a day uptown/a night on the bowery

20372037 views88 comments66 favs

in her monestary mission, with her rosary and candles, time holds me here my feet got the travelin' blues but my hands tie old women's bones to my hair

Fuck Men!

20372037 views1313 comments1010 favs

I talk wands and magic and how women aren't supposed to care, but I do, and she talks length and girth. Her fiancé has neither, she makes an illustration with her pinky and says that if they don't marry within the year, she's dumping his ass and we

Amiaivel

20372037 views00 comments00 favs

Once upon a time a queen was blessed with twin sons, which she named Nosch and Amiaivel.

The Zen Gunslinger

20362036 views88 comments66 favs

On top of the refrigerator is a small wooden box

Arturo + Lourdes, 2005 and 4ever

20352035 views44 comments22 favs

Here’s the story as compiled from the scantest of clues: The writing on the back of a stall door in the restroom of a twenty-four hour restaurant under the Gowanus Expressway.

Flirting With Immortality

20352035 views11 comment00 favs

That stupid bastard seemed to defy death at every turn in his life. His actions suggested invincibility, but his catch phrase indicated full awareness that he was indeed quite vincible. And how fitting was his name. We didn’t know if it

Years After

20352035 views88 comments66 favs

Years After she can go home.

You Wear Camo?

20342034 views99 comments66 favs

Got me a 50 pound bat ray.

My Relationship With Reading

20342034 views99 comments99 favs

What if I said; I never liked actually reading?

Becoming an Author

20342034 views1010 comments88 favs

"good luck, and be assured acceptance for representation or publication is based on different criteria at different agencies and we are sure you will yet find someone mentally deficient enough to give your book a shot."

The Captive

20342034 views1212 comments33 favs

....sees the beginning of a new day through the closed shutters, hears the guard washing up at the sink, feels the beginning of a cry in his throat.

Comes After Cato

20342034 views77 comments44 favs

When they called him down there to the morgue to identify the body, he drove behind the wheel of his truck like some steady maniac on a long haul. The Ford 150 cried out for new shocks, but that hardly mattered. Mud plastered side panels and…

fc1 (bee boo guy/ valio hansolo)

20342034 views22 comments11 fav

poon fred / loop ilo/ bussy yubb tree