Most recent stories

My Books

12871287 views1313 comments1111 favs

My books wound you. They wound me / too.

At the Station on the Steppes

11411141 views1111 comments77 favs

The condemned, arrested/ and convicted as a consequence/ of cheerlessness, must be prepared

Renewal

10261026 views44 comments22 favs

At first he thought it was a cat she was holding, swathed in a white, fleece blanket

Walking The World Alone

15221522 views55 comments44 favs

Yeah I walk itWithout a companionOr friendI walk the world aloneIt seems right to meI don't like the moviesMost television showsOr most popular musicI walk the world aloneUnable to buildAn emotional attachmentWith anyoneI walk the world aloneWith beer as My…

Scene of Mostly Unwilling Players

11511151 views66 comments33 favs

Chewing on peppered peanuts, thin flakes scattered carelessly around his squat, Father unfurls his turban and mops his clammy pate with an open palm.

Second Career

784784 views33 comments44 favs

“Just how many different bipeds try to hide their nakedness?” “Only one. And that'd be us, idiot.”, Twinkle responded. “Then, why don't we mind showing certain parts of our bodies?”, she then asked. Twinkle could see it was going to be…

Scrambled Eggs and Sympathy Cards

936936 views44 comments00 favs

We spent that entire winter with shaky hands and shrunken egos.

THUNDER

12311231 views66 comments22 favs

not the sky

sediment

977977 views44 comments33 favs

I'm re-invented on Main St. every single day.

Typing Right On Fictionaut, Take 1

10491049 views55 comments11 fav

We went driving on Sundays.

That Painted Up Whore

849849 views44 comments66 favs

Some things stay with you. I got off the bus, petted my dog, Nick and walked in our house and saw Mother at the kitchen table, crying and clearly angry. I asked her if she was sick. She works. She said that she didn't go to work today and might not go tomorrow…

Animals

16871687 views44 comments44 favs

I folded my problems into pretty paper animals to keep me company. I set them on the Formica dinette set. I jammed some into cracks so they’d stand up straight: organized warfare

Seeing Me

11721172 views44 comments22 favs

I got to see me the other day.

Blonde on Blonde

10771077 views33 comments11 fav

Happens at a party, this way, past frat boys perched in branches like idiot hoot owls,

Lost Among the Consonants

11051105 views44 comments33 favs

I'm writing our initials in black sharpie on the tunnel wall. There's already people who have come before me, hundreds of pairs of Qs and As and hearts in the middle, through a small hole in the brick I can hear the French accents, spinning through, a reminder that I am…

Life As a Beach

905905 views22 comments11 fav

Life is a beach, not an enormous ashtry.

Buzzkill.

17181718 views11 comment11 fav

[EXPLETIVE DELETED]

Walls

997997 views00 comments00 favs

No one would have picked me out of a crowd as the morbid one, but it was true that thoughts of easy exits floated through my consciousness regularly. I did my research—the easy methods, painless, guaranteed methods—and felt prepared to do, well, w

ace in the hole

13141314 views1010 comments88 favs

hookers are better educated these days

My Fuji Red Banannanana

10171017 views55 comments33 favs

She had some fascinatingif incongruoustwins of swing hips.Her eyes made me thinkof opium densof fast women without a twitch,the sweet despair of gentlemen loserswith their 19th centuryhandbooks of moralityand witchcraft. But she only wanted mefor my Fuji Red…

Kin of His

15221522 views3030 comments1818 favs

I dreamed that coffee grounds had spilled on my Buffet. There was another clarinet, a silver one, that belonged to a man not in the room, that was clean of debris.

how to live on coffee and prayers

974974 views44 comments00 favs

The coffee filter rustles like the Pages of your notebook, which Only tires you even more. Make your drink strong to Make up for the lack of resolve In your shoulders, and Your weak promises. The familiar sound of percolation And you reach the…

My Almost-Clash with The Rolling Stones (Memoir)

16121612 views44 comments22 favs

I'd been living in Boston, but, on a whim, flew to London, England. Soon I was working as support staff for the actor Alan Bates and his wife, Victoria, on a movie called "The Shout", shooting in Devon.

Tragedy and Wreck

886886 views1010 comments77 favs

By the time the third car disappeared, Bud had noticed sudden lulls in the breeze, rain microbursts from otherwise blue skies, cold humid calms that trailed him around the junk.

My Memoirs, To the Best of My Knowledge

792792 views33 comments22 favs

This country needs a self-administered memoir veracity exam, like a home pregnancy test, that could weed out made-up memoirs before they hit the bookstores.

Some Splendor In Some Grass

12641264 views99 comments77 favs

As they lay in the pasture on a warm summer's afternoon, with the sky blue, the sun shining, he looked across at her, peacefully asleep by his side. How he loved her. Their year together had been one of joy and happiness.He idly nibbled on a blade of grass, remembering the…

The Important Story

12911291 views1010 comments88 favs

The best thing about being a cowboy is the cows.

Why I am Afraid of Spiders

17481748 views1515 comments1111 favs

SPIDERS

wanna be a cowboy?

15021502 views1616 comments1313 favs

no one likes a bitchy cowboyhike up yer britchespull yer brim down'nshut up and ridestop making petsout of peevesand idolsout of gossipinsteadmake a hobbyout of yer horseand fer godsakesseason that saddle

Ghosts

12351235 views11 comment11 fav

"Yes. It was moving, and not along the ground, either. We were. . . looking toward the cemetery, and the ghost or whatever was clearly visible. . ."