Most read stories

Scooter and Skipper at the Roman Colosseum

18901890 views1313 comments66 favs

We make our way into the Colosseum–excuse me, the Prince Spaghetti Colosseum–and take in the beauty of Italy’s national pastime; sadistic cruelty to wacko religious cults.

another night, another dream

18901890 views11 comment22 favs

She can tell you seven things she doesn’t love about her face.

Hemera Rises

18901890 views33 comments22 favs

The woods. They say don’t wander too far into the woods, where those ghosts can’t hear you and the moonlight won’t trace you a path. In the black crowd of trees there’s something waiting. Don’t go to the where the siren is singing...

On Writing

18901890 views1616 comments77 favs

it's the very words that are the problem

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.2 - c.4

18901890 views00 comments00 favs

Madam Mayweather heard the laughter stop and the copy of Jean-Pierre burst into smoke. Her silence was intense. Nobody in the auditorium knew what to expect. No one dared to say a single word.

Hot Cocoa and Bourbon

18901890 views00 comments00 favs

Walking into the living room and next to the tree, he handed his wife Kathy her Minnie and plopped himself on the couch. Their three kids, two girls and the youngest a boy, tore through the wrapping paper like a pack of rabid wolves tearing through a deer

Woman Gives Birth At Cafe, Refuses To Leave Until Latte Finished

18891889 views11 comment00 favs

There was a man crying, walking his dog and a woman drove by on a flat tire They brought coffee to the tables in large glasses on white saucers There’d be long silver spoons with which to stir in strong

Three Photos

18891889 views33 comments00 favs

The first photo above shows plainly: five children dressed in suits and dresses. There are three girls. Each girl wears a yellow sundress with chiffon ribbons. The boys have been terrorizing them--the girls, not the dresses.

John Lennon Slept Here (Or Was It Ringo?)

18891889 views22 comments22 favs

Why is the ghost of John Lennon haunting a house in rural Oregon?

How to Remember Important Things

18881888 views1212 comments1111 favs

Save the whales. Save the dolphins. Save the bored housewives. Save my hands, so often cupped over the sorrow in being alive. Save the beautiful made-up cherries of delight I feel everywhere in your presence. Save the sprawling…

Breaking Eggs

18881888 views77 comments44 favs

You want to read, you know where to click.

Finding the bog body

18881888 views1010 comments55 favs

It’s a bitch of a day, devious. It started out calm and then those monsoon showers hit. The lads legged it back to the vans for a bit of a warm sup. He was going to follow them. The rain machine-gunned the window.

Jesus Had a Tat

18881888 views88 comments44 favs

Jesus Freaks will go tat head... crowns of thorns for their noggins and so on. Christ had one too...

Bad Attitude

18881888 views77 comments44 favs

Start with a long look down the alley, a small hoodied figure turning in.

Book Killer

18881888 views1010 comments77 favs

Sometimes after bookbinding for a few hours at the hand-sewing table, Jillie would, after scraping her knife too roughly over the glue of an old book's spine, feel not like a resurrector of literature, as she should, but a killer. Not a calculating or

Dig That Girl!

18881888 views55 comments11 fav

Leave your dog and your dog-eared lovers at the door. I smile at the bouncer, pay my ticket, and wink at a slasher chick. She gets pumped on heavy metal gods and Kwaito

Girl

18881888 views1212 comments66 favs

The tadpoles flipped on the brown mud bottom. She dipped one out and held it near, seeing it in her belly, shaping arms and feet and a small, blond head. She set it back and stood, breasts out, arms up. The ducks in the weed, eyes hard like hungry boys, waited for bread.…

Battle at the Bodega

18881888 views33 comments11 fav

Mr. Lowell knelt down and put his face in his hands, his knees quickly covered in blood. Sobs.

Autumn

18871887 views1717 comments1010 favs

The leaves are telegrams sent from the branches to the wind, saying, “it's over stop don't send kisses stop forget me.”

Significant Things

18871887 views00 comments00 favs

“This is a Kneeling Bus.” They’re all kneeling buses, why do they even have to say that? Almost every person gets off in the front now when it says it even says right on the bus to please move to the back and exit from the rear side doors. I hate having t

My House In The Middle Of The Ocean

18871887 views22 comments11 fav

I built a house in the middle of the ocean. I used sunlight for nails. Wind for wood. Stars for chandeliers, the moon for a doorknob.

Crystal Tips

18871887 views44 comments44 favs

by the time he's moves onto knives, she has appeared in next door's window: sliver of nut-pale belly, fingers wet with suds, nails painted bright as glitterballs.

Skype's Not for Losers. Really.

18871887 views44 comments11 fav

™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®>©≈∞⅜∏√™¶¢£ÆëáçÑøí¥®

Henry and the Hungry Hamper

18871887 views33 comments00 favs

  Henry's had a messy day. He splashed, he jumped, he rolled and played. He wrote in books, dressed up the dog, And on the wall he drew a frog. He's wearing dinner, seconds too, And for dessert some fruity goo. It's come to live on…

The Leg

18871887 views3131 comments1111 favs

They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.

Our Story in Ten Photographs

18871887 views2727 comments1818 favs

1. The ghost that photographs my wife and me has a peculiar sense of lighting. In this one, we are sitting at the kitchen table of our old apartment. The table is made of glass. There is nothing on the table except our elbows. She has lowered her head between her…

This Thing

18871887 views1414 comments1111 favs

I'm sure someone somewhere must havefelt something like it before. Imean I've never been able tohave this kind of deep longing asif you might want to forget everythingyou know. I always figured that funny stuff onlyhappened to folks in a foreignfilm. Not to some guy…

From Beyond

18871887 views22 comments00 favs

Someday they'll find me face-down in a puddle of ink.

The Caveman Attends the Symphony Without His Club

18861886 views88 comments33 favs

“Would you consider renewing for the next season?” “We’re not interested.” “Can I ask you why?” I considered my reply. I was thinking of mincing my words. The man on the other end of the line seemed, how should I put this, somewhat s

Tatters

18861886 views99 comments88 favs

They sat on the couch, and he tried to unbutton her buttons, but she fended him off.