Most recent stories

Not Lao-tzu's Yellow Brick Road, xvii - xxvii

15291529 views77 comments66 favs

—indistinct and foggy, my eyes lost at sea, confined to a horizon not close to land.

Some Kind of Compass

21402140 views2020 comments1919 favs

if we stare into the dark long enough, we see ourselves at some end or beginning –

Fulfillment

16531653 views1414 comments88 favs

And she's dying like someone who's tried living and failed.

Liking in "The Scarlet Letter"

15001500 views1414 comments77 favs

like the dome of an immense lamp like blades of grass at the sweep of the scythe like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide

Arcana Magi Memorial Vol.7 - c.3

12391239 views00 comments00 favs

Oryn led Ragnorak to a window. It was darkened in the corners with only a red light over the Nocturne.

Pull Another String

15631563 views55 comments55 favs

Now as my fearful hand goes unwittingly up I search the faraway trees for the closest possible answer I know I don't know. The clever waiting beast is looking my way with an intelligent roving eye that says he likes to hit. It doesn't matter. You're worse…

Community

14721472 views1414 comments88 favs

an undercurrent of fear is running through my community

Dog Years

14891489 views1212 comments1010 favs

Already my back aches

Mel Brooks Eats Crispy Bacon

9797 views33 comments33 favs

Gorillas with Picassos form charcoal memories Van Gogh leaves his legacy in forgotten fields Astrologers approach the sea of false jealousies And Mel Brooks eats crispy bacon

BACK IN THE USSUSSUSSR

12711271 views55 comments33 favs

It was on the Fake News today, Oh boy They built a bridge from Alaska to Siberia Called the Bridge Over Troubled Waters Instead of a wall And Putin came riding bareback on a pink unicorn Into the White House and renamed it The White Horse,

Neapolitan

15271527 views77 comments44 favs

I wonder how many crumbs he can drop to make a cookie, whole, so I can relax a little and throw out the self help books about how I'm not right in the motherfucking head,

Seven Haiku for Sad and Scary Times

23422342 views2222 comments1515 favs

The Cheshire grinning/ moon cups itself to capture/ Venus should she fall.

Not Lao-tzu's Yellow Brick Road, i - xvi

21092109 views1010 comments1010 favs

the Way that can be mapped leads nowhere.

Postcard

21862186 views2020 comments1313 favs

A tiny story, 55 words, just enough to fit on a . . .

from Tsalmaveth

11611161 views11 comment11 fav

Anastomose my veins to / yours so we may / share // a dream pooled between us

Moon collar

19801980 views99 comments99 favs

I don't think dogs like to die with the pack. The smell of them rotting brings trouble in the wild,

The Angel Closes the Rain

12771277 views44 comments44 favs

I may have gone A little soft in the brain But I swear I still see it The angel closes the rain Even God has to refrain From causing us pain When the angel closes the rain So the angel closes the rain At the end of time The angel mus

Micromanaged Truth

12001200 views22 comments22 favs

Let your father stay through that dinner when his mistress needed him, while your mother was on the verge.

Crooning

15821582 views66 comments44 favs

It was a lover’s dark. They had been talking for hours when daylight lost interest and had gone elsewhere for sport.

Fear the Future: 25 Brief Tales in Various Keys of Woe, Fear, and Loathing

17891789 views1313 comments66 favs

The three were up early to await the deer with rifles, ammunition, and coffee.

Cattle Crossing

10921092 views77 comments55 favs

"You wantin' one of them kittens? If we can't give 'em away we're gonna drown 'em. We got too many."

juvenile haiku

17961796 views99 comments77 favs

leaves of a season/float into a brook among/bubbles fit to burst.

Thumbing For a Ride

14241424 views1010 comments66 favs

Here comes my speed dealer he's riding shotgun in the open

Feb 8

15941594 views1515 comments66 favs

Call it a spell or a prayer or a ritual; it worked.

Lover's Spat

14311431 views55 comments44 favs

“You haven’t been listening, have you.”

The Next Landscape

15531553 views66 comments66 favs

The day came shyly up to me like a rolling orange thing. Perhaps of alien origin, but not if the Buddha of our foolish hopeless dreamer inside has anything to say about it. It said, pick me up. I did. It looked like forever on the inviting horizon with trees as…

The oranges are dreaming

135135 views99 comments33 favs

The oranges are dreaming that they have turned to apples.

Parts

15221522 views1212 comments88 favs

Trigger warning: casualties of war.

Things You Should Know, By Heart, If You Must

962962 views44 comments33 favs

The light is always on in reality The Gelatinous Mass is not something made up By the Catholic Church And even though a small deer may have come to the side of the road once To lick the salt from your wounds There will definitely be cheap fish

Feb 5

12141214 views66 comments44 favs

He peels the garlic while I stir the lentils; he chops the cilantro while I peel kale leaf from stem. Also, the rings. Also, no one is going anywhere.