Most recent stories

The Game

14021402 views22 comments11 fav

Cammie Richard's house was just like all the others in Wilchester. The exterior was vaguely reminiscent of the Dutch style; gray stone with cross beams of dark wood, with two stories and a bay window. Her yard was fertilizer green, with a giant STRATFORD FOOTBALL…

Saving Grace

12381238 views00 comments00 favs

It essentially comes down to this: If you have nothing left but paper, all you can really use it for is wiping your behind if you’re in a jam.

Don't Mangle the Mongol

986986 views00 comments00 favs

Back in the Dark Ages, the Mongols invented the first hamburger pattie. They put slabs of beef under their horses' saddles and after a few miles of rough riding -- voila! a flattened piece of cow meat. They then proceeded t

Reportage 1

11191119 views11 comment00 favs

But oh my goodness ladies and gentlemen, out from under the vast reeking field, under this generation another generation has been rising and they are bursting up out of the soil of corpses they were boiling under there all along and they are bursting up o

Peace and Cribbage

11821182 views55 comments11 fav

Some things are meant to be repeated

JOSEPH YOUNG

10641064 views55 comments00 favs

JOSEPH YOUNG Joseph Young You might start with the top of the head, where the heat goes. This is first, first from the womb, the first word. Joseph Young There might have been a faith that placed it in the mouth, not the…

Broken Vase

11451145 views66 comments11 fav

Once was when we were in Vegas on layover from L.A., I told her I thought we should go to the Elvis Chapel and get remarried.

Ecce viator : Behold the Traveler

18391839 views22 comments00 favs

The snake glides unhurriedly through the garden one warm July afternoon looking for a schmoose. Or barring such pleasant daytime passage, a shady snoozing spot. He twines himself about the gravid apple tree’s trunk caduceus-like, slithering his handsom

Fall Of The Twin Towers

11441144 views44 comments00 favs

Sitting at an outside table at the Bassett Café on West Broadway, I remember, in the background always the Twin Towers behind me in the photographs from that time And the sparrows in New York, bolder than anywhere working over the scrap

Martyr

11721172 views55 comments11 fav

The waitress says, “That’s a memory,” as the smoke dances around her head.

War

23042304 views5454 comments1313 favs

Once, an elephant contracted a sudden bolt of insanity in the streets of Ernakulam and trampled three children under her feet before she was shot to death. It took them seven bullets to bring her down.

Arcana Magi - c.3: Five Months Later...

19531953 views00 comments00 favs

Oryn’s eyes opened wide as her smile removed the sadness. She stood in awe with what she saw, as the sound of footsteps drew closer to her.

portraiture

18511851 views1111 comments77 favs

We all build portraits, meaning we all try to encapsulate and thus punctuate time. Why? Because, who among us can swallow eternity whole?

The Phantom

13131313 views44 comments11 fav

Approaching the kitchen from the foyer the reverb lessened until heel and floor where flint on flint. No spark was made.

Illicit

17071707 views1414 comments99 favs

... a moth, a kiss. A silence.

Cleavage Cont.

10631063 views11 comment00 favs

"My tits, " she instructed "aren't for public consumption".Everything was actually muffled and my ears began to bleed because of how progressively louder the thumping was in the center of my chest. Stacy decided to emphasize her point of disliking the objectification…

Their Nipples

996996 views00 comments11 fav

The soft twin winds of peace and harmony flow through your nipples It is not milk that gives such flow but the whiff of life’s spirit, the wind of poetry the renewal and the silence of the love you give me I suck like a new

The winter I was going to meetings

13951395 views66 comments22 favs

It’ll die in there and the stairwell’ll stink for weeks, Greg says in the car. We’re quiet, considering that.

Defender

14401440 views44 comments00 favs

He had what was commonly referred to in junior high as the ‘bullshit mustache’.

LECTURES

12751275 views66 comments55 favs

LECTURES A Bra Burning When Freud painted “Envy,” the women collapsed, holding fans to their faces. Hot that year, they retired to the Tyrols. 50 Days of Palindromes Although Thiebaud painted cakes like women,…

The Trials

17621762 views22 comments33 favs

In reenactments of the pressing to death of Giles Corey, Walter’s friends stacked pillows onto his chest while he defied his inquisitors.

Dangling About

14281428 views77 comments33 favs

Looking at his pale and pimpled flesh, he was repulsed by his flaccid and lifeless member. The accompanying bits, dangled about far from his frame as the summer heat drew them away from his sweaty and unwashed body.

A Letter to the Girl I May or May Not Have Slept With Last Night

20772077 views1111 comments33 favs

Can I really be blamed? Look at the circumstantial evidence: you wore that skirt, which can hardly be called a skirt. More like a very wide plaid belt.

Ain't Comin' Back

19711971 views66 comments22 favs

He told of the wilting heat, the fulgent landscape, the people....

6.5 in Eureka

757757 views11 comment00 favs

Everything moved. I ran outside.

...And Nail

21532153 views3030 comments1515 favs

For twenty-eight years, Cochran Baines removed a tooth from the mouth of every dead child that spent time on his table.

Sex Dungeon for Sale!

28102810 views2424 comments99 favs

Calm down, I wouldn’t classify this as a sex dungeon.

Pigeons Having Sex On An Air Conditioner In New York

51645164 views4949 comments2929 favs

“The place is great” we told the rental agent “except for one thing “Pigeons are nesting on the air conditioner in the bedroom window “At 7 a.m. the pigeons were having sex on the air conditioner “They started getting r

Minnesota Menage

25732573 views2828 comments1010 favs

I talk to her, whispering endearments and flattery. I tell her how incredible it feels to be between her legs.

Final Resting Place of The Pen

25362536 views11 comment00 favs

Purchance to dream purchase ants to dream running Catalan sidewalk schoolyard fumble days berlin wall came tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down the mexico wall come tumbling down fuck you, Gorby. Head to radio, broadcast Hitler kill the generation di