Most recent stories

The Last Time

13531353 views1313 comments99 favs

Stalks were scythed to submission one stroke at a time

Women With Colds and the Men Who Love Them

889889 views11 comment00 favs

“This is when things pick up with the ‘stuffies,’” says Sergeant Jim Hampy of the Vice Squad. “They lie low during the summer, then come back when cold and flu season starts.”

Until Tomorrow But That's Just Some Other Time

10771077 views33 comments00 favs

Roanne awoke on the livingroom couch with the usual willies dancing in stomp time inside her. She blinked, looked around. The room was a mess, with clothes strewn hither and yon on the floor and the chairs and TV. On the walls, rock stars,…

Nobody Steps Forward

16061606 views33 comments11 fav

I can only see their eyes in the dark, reflected in the light from my flashlight. It's so quiet. I only hear the sound of my own breath. I hold the flashlight steady. Maybe they will think I'm not a threat if I'm not moving. It's a small hope. Yet here we are, at a…

Nevermore

12561256 views11 comment00 favs

The strangest thing though was there were no people, everyone had vanished. No passengers, no train engineers, no busmen, not even any station attendants. I was alone. After checking a couple of doors and finding them locked I continued on along the plat

Convenience Store

12311231 views33 comments22 favs

I’m casing the place; my boyfriend Jimmy is about to bust in and rob the store.

Horse With One Big Ass Smile Plastered All Over Its Purple Petaled Pucker Just for You

13921392 views1010 comments66 favs

Tired, so tired of it all, but oh we'll always go on, won't we, still carrying on about the love the love the love we shared, only again and again. Ooh the oozing life blood is slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly now going to shit I say, practically…

Not Another Day In The Machine.

11561156 views00 comments00 favs

I A sparklerman zig-zagged across the skies, re-arranging stars in its path. How bright his stick-like and jaggy limbs twinkle, I noticed; even noticing my surprise. No longer 'simply sitting', I was. 'It is time' I mumbled. The room was melting, si

Numberplate

14251425 views66 comments22 favs

After she died, clearing out her safe deposit box at the local bank, I found more numberplates.

Kitty Love

17681768 views1111 comments88 favs

Our next door neighbor is in love with his cat. His wife sits in our kitchen crying her eyes out.

Henry Katz

10351035 views44 comments00 favs

Henry Katz sat on his couch. He was reading a book. He guessed it was a novel, but he had to keep looking at the cover to remind himself what it was.

The Shadow

13991399 views00 comments00 favs

"Did I have a dream, or did the dream have me?" - Rush, "Nocturne"

The Fat Geisha Sings The Ballad of the Bamboo Shoot

11401140 views00 comments00 favs

Come gather round and listen to me You senior VPs from AIG As full of yourselves As you are of wealth So engorged are you with raging greed The warnings you neither see nor heed. Come gather round and listen to me Sing of the Minister of the Third Degree. …

Cory's Carousel

14901490 views11 comment11 fav

There was an ownership about the makeshift carnival. There was a therapy there.

True Story, Every Word

851851 views00 comments00 favs

So, I see this is story one-upmanship now. You think you’ve got stories! Here’s one for the books. Here goes! In 1968 I had a day job as a payroll clerk at the Kroger Company, but, to maintain my glamorous lifestyle and my impressive efficiency ap

Colin Powell's UN Clown Show

19921992 views11 comment00 favs

Not that Dick Cheney gave one rusty rat's ass about what the UN might want. Fuck those poop countries!

Claudine

15761576 views2020 comments66 favs

She lifts her head, nose heavenward. There’s a wet spot on my dress from our lovemaking, its aroma as heady as Claudine’s bouillabaisse. I hope she smells it.

Marcia's birthday party

12001200 views00 comments00 favs

Her friend was a performance artist who gave Marcia a framed picture of her vagina, made with menstrual blood. At least that’s what she told everyone.

Third Time's the Charm

19141914 views3535 comments1515 favs

No jobs except drinking...

The Greenfather

10061006 views00 comments00 favs

Italian authorities seized $1.9 billion in "green" investments made by La Cosa Nostra to launder money. Reuters

Left at the Tracks

12041204 views77 comments00 favs

Shivering in the car, he watched his parents arguing under the porch light. He saw the smoking anger of their breath as they jabbed the cold air with accusatory fingers.

Antenna

18961896 views1717 comments1010 favs

When I squint at her from across the table I can see the waveforms created by her carrier signal.

Love Meal #3009

15321532 views1212 comments99 favs

His knife enters the Maui onion. He minces garlic and applies heat to pan and melts sweet cream butter and browns the garlic first and then he adds the onion and more heat, but it's time that will surely caramelize them. Salt and pepper and splashes of wine for the pan and…

Driving Through Mississippi Wearing a Chin Beard in 1964

10951095 views22 comments00 favs

Ah, the nerve of hot-blooded youth! But the drinking age was only 18 in New Orleans, and we couldn’t resist the call of all that legalized drinking (even though I had fake I.D’s my roommate at Urbana had given me.) You and I had already consecrated

ORPHANS

11191119 views1515 comments77 favs

They wait for me every morningthese two furry four legged catswhen they hear my car,their eyes open wide and they nuzzle each otherin anticipationof the food I bring them

Everything and Nothing

14241424 views22 comments00 favs

Joe thought of Evelyn. Walt of Charley. Annabelle dreamt of Paolo in an autumn in Cordoba. Everyone who stayed at Mrs Jackanoe’s guest house in Room 17 and found the note also found some long forgotten feelings.

Ordinary Boys

14851485 views1616 comments1313 favs

There is no hate in his eyes...

Nostradamus Dies of Gout. Nostradamus Dies of a Broken Heart. Nostradamus Crosses a Bridge that is Yet to be Built.

68996899 views2121 comments1414 favs

Nostradamus died of gout on a Friday evening. He would be the first person in history to die of complications relating to gout. Spiked rods of crystallized uric acid pushed their way through his synovial fluid just as he composed a quatrain about the end

English Leather Aftershave

741741 views33 comments00 favs

I just can't figure out why nothing terrible happened to me that night. Young, blonde, drunk American girl sitting on a dirty curb in the red light district of Nuevo Laredo, and everyone left me alone ... amazing.

MARTIAL LAW - LOCK DOWN IN PARADISE

11671167 views00 comments00 favs

Six just left to drive 8 hours thru the jungle. They’ll emerge in a year in military guerilla uniforms. One guy threw up getting in. A friend writes, “I started a Free Mike Todaro Campaign. Hope to raise a couple of hundred dollars. We will, of co