Most recent stories

Over simplifying the solution, or, there have been way too many celebrations at the confetti factory

11031103 views00 comments00 favs

Try and put my bones back in

Hot Rod Heaven

11151115 views33 comments33 favs

"a ratty, red, medium-sized bicycle for sale in a ratty, medium-sized yard."

Chills On My Opposite Hip

823823 views66 comments11 fav

You gave me chills on my opposite hip whenever you touched me from behind, when we spooned under the rough woolen blanket in your basement. Whenever your essence touched my life like that. Just like when you said, “You came, that’s all.” That’s all? T

Who you pretended to be

899899 views00 comments00 favs

Who You Pretended To Be I only appeared to belong to my mother --Jane Kenyon I almost died when Ulysses sailed leaving behind the dowager queen complaining of processed sugar as Grandfather's limousine tooled to Saks to browse brassieres…

Everything that's Gone Wrong, has Gone Wrong Because of Football

11001100 views11 comment00 favs

I’m not ready for football. I’m not ready for it, but I live in a southern town that worships at its altar more devoutly than those suicidal beauties in James Wright’s great poem.

Hashtagstory No. 1

983983 views33 comments11 fav

#whateverhappenedto #beforesex #whateverhappenedto #duringsex #whateverhappenedto #aftersex #nevertrust[written in August 2009]

Sidereal

15671567 views2929 comments1616 favs

"...they ran shirtless like pagans under southern stars."

Enemies Are Taken Care Of?

757757 views00 comments00 favs

You took me to this great salad bar once, down in Chicago, on a special date. It must have been for my birthday (how old was I!) I remember that salad bar. It was the only salad bar I’ve ever seen that had caviar. I loved that black caviar. They put it up

If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Would Ride

15231523 views44 comments22 favs

Two people are talking. They are both wearing hats.

Event Particle (9)

11831183 views44 comments33 favs

leaves, starlings and other words fall into thickets of orange or green grasses or tendrils or snakes

Still Photographs

978978 views22 comments11 fav

one will become a tobacco king; another will steal copper plumbing on moonlessnights.

STONE

14981498 views2424 comments1212 favs

Man waters Earth with his eyes.

Ul Fas Spe Rea Course

10651065 views22 comments11 fav

Edmund read ultra-fast: “.Ass - ;fuc gav fas no I will fu fuc fu her he wen fa, ha! Ha!

The Devil & Mr Johnson (part 1)

948948 views11 comment00 favs

The night was black as burned flesh.

Full Moon

10601060 views00 comments00 favs

Creatures of the dark don’t follow daylight savings

Tour Guide

11581158 views11 comment00 favs

“It is not your shoes the Americans complained about!” Roberto yelled, sitting behind his desk, cigar smoke curling around his purple face. “It is your UNDERWEAR!”

Put Your Trust in God

10851085 views33 comments00 favs

God is my stomach.

The Days of The Olde Burying Yard

15631563 views1515 comments99 favs

“Phennias Jessup is his name. That’s his death’s head scroll, an hourglass, bats, spirals and angel’s wings on either side of the top part of the stone. "

Provincetown: Where America and its Drama Begin

791791 views44 comments11 fav

Eugene O'Neill is remembered as a troubled, brooding artist, but he had grown up in the theatre and was a hustler for the business of himself as well.

Confessions of a Liturgical Voyeur

16021602 views1616 comments66 favs

...when she spoke, her voice still seemed to spill bourbon from a heavy crystal tumbler, and drift cigarette smoke in a dark paneled room.

Failed Restaurants

12561256 views1616 comments88 favs

Their specialty is the roasted Australian hare, long ears intact, arranged on a bed of sassafras.

High Court Hears Arguments in Right-to-Watch-World Series Case

619619 views00 comments00 favs

The U.S. Supreme Court today heard arguments on a legal issue that tears the nation apart every October: Does the Constitution protect the right of male fans to watch the fall classic even if they have no rooting interest in either team involved?

Film

794794 views44 comments22 favs

B is now on all fours, running his hands through the hair of the other. What he whispers is repeating.

An Angel at Christmas

978978 views00 comments00 favs

Call it what you may but misfortune, bad luck, disaster, adversity and trials of different calibers can hit us at any time.We are human. We experience the ups and downs of life everyday. Out of a job, lack of money, health insurance and other luxuries that some people…

Priming the Pump

673673 views11 comment00 favs

I saw Sharon one more time, in the summer of 1969, when man first set foot on the moon. I met her at that nightclub over on Hwy. 83, near North Avenue in Elmhurst where everyone still hung out from high school. She came back to the basement at my parent

The Cake for God

24092409 views2121 comments1818 favs

is all but invisible. Some say this is because it is within a bakery within a bakery within a bakery and thus appears to be everywhere at once.The cake for God has never been eaten except by children who seem to later forget what it tasted like. Some …

How Elm Trees Die

15861586 views3030 comments1313 favs

I had felt suddenly lighter and next thing I knew I was watching Leonard Tucker and Sister William from somewhere near the ceiling. I saw myself, too, at my desk, holding my songbook out in front of me like everyone else.

I didn't ask for help

11121112 views11 comment00 favs

I didn't ask for help

Yours For a Song

678678 views00 comments00 favs

“You know,” I said finally, “when I’m out in the waiting room, I get high blood pressure when you call my name.”

Why won't you lie?

11931193 views00 comments11 fav

And out on that lake that day you yelled “desperation please!” And I heard “desperate pleas?” I wondered about first impressions.