Most recent stories

Gertrude

14851485 views55 comments44 favs

When we were young and small we played in the orchard. Mom made apple pies and fried apples, caramel apples and apple sauce, apple cider. Grandma’s apple butter recipe.

John Nixon Cummin' in Matt Hogue.

881881 views00 comments00 favs

[FARCICAL STATUS ... Keep going to Ladd's, you fucking losers! #talesofatwentyFOURyearoldNOTHING]

Cleft-Split Rock

757757 views66 comments55 favs

Walking here with you on these narrow strands

When I was little

888888 views1111 comments44 favs

I was little, very little, when Happiness went away. I moved the entire earth, walked in the ferns, poked in the river. Happiness had disappeared. I looked to the sky. I remember, the sun had the porous face of an orange. Not unlike my skin. My eyes fixed above, I saw it…

Lingering Over Language

19621962 views2121 comments1212 favs

The mornings he comes in

Lost Keys

12701270 views44 comments11 fav

The most unoriginal, trite and hackneyed story ever written!

The Song Left in Me

793793 views66 comments33 favs

The sky’s on fire with existence When I’m around you Your wandering kisses enter my soul But your quiet beauty may be What really carries you It is like Finding and touching the Pearl of existence To be near you Was that your tattoo

There Were Giants In Those Days, and the Wickedness of Men

835835 views99 comments66 favs

We laugh at them, parading two-by-two, the elephants rolling tail to trunk across the makeshift gangplank, wide slats flexing under their sway. A pair of snakes contemplates gulping a pair of frogs and their clandestine movements stun a cricket and his mate. Birds squat…

Hunters

876876 views1010 comments55 favs

At fifteen...

Twenty-two

13211321 views1313 comments55 favs

The year begins well here with much needed rain and tee-shirt temperatures.

Yeopim Pork Men

891891 views1515 comments55 favs

The trio stuffed their grilling equipment in a battered van and left for Dixieland Speedway at 4:30 am.

Transmigration

727727 views22 comments22 favs

Much reincarnation

Endless

13631363 views11 comment11 fav

My grief is made up of Demons fighting to Claw their way first Out of my eyes

Good (Enough)

989989 views77 comments66 favs

Maybe I am good

'How I Came To Find Out I'm Like Thomas Pynchon and Bruce Sterling' by ... yours TRULY!!! The third born of three. Or four. Or

723723 views22 comments00 favs

yup.

In Plastic

762762 views77 comments44 favs

I'm more ash now than cigar.

Tiny Window

13501350 views99 comments77 favs

I remember the living room heater

Hotels (an excerpt)

947947 views44 comments22 favs

“Snobs,” our head housekeeper Denise called them in her deep voice, while peering out from under her glasses at me.

A Word About Everything

14551455 views88 comments44 favs

I remember having a beer once And feeling like a minor god And I know in some lie you told Your life began making sense And I also know that the mind likes logic But the heart loves chaos I just hope flies land on the butter of your soul

No One Was Watching

10791079 views44 comments22 favs

What happens in life when no one is watching?

Express Lane

841841 views44 comments44 favs

The Guy Behind Me only had one item. And he looked too young to fully grasp Loneliness.

The World of Willy Gregg

801801 views88 comments66 favs

Death threats? Just another mumbling day in the world of Willy Gregg.

O'Hare International Peoplewalk Tunnel

843843 views55 comments55 favs

At step blinding speed we all alight somewhere in the world

I Bought New Candles

779779 views55 comments44 favs

The candles and my brain flame like a torch

Thanksgiving

10661066 views1616 comments99 favs

Unless we see it, probe it, Name it, star by star, and feel This awful, tenuous gratitude.

Just Another Plebian — Err, Philistine!

754754 views22 comments11 fav

I hate your guts.

substance shadow spirit

823823 views44 comments33 favs

ride crests and troughs of ceaseless change, / without delight but without fear, / and once it’s time to leave, then simply go, / without regret, with no unseemly fuss.

Jimbo’s Wish

780780 views88 comments55 favs

growing up fumbling for excuses your fingers, clumsy littlepads of flesh you don't recognize a scatter plot of acnethat won't erase by mirrorwhy this scene doesn't workkissing the detachable lips of bobby-soxed methodgirlswho keep…

God Works Out of A Home Office

982982 views55 comments55 favs

with binoculars neighbor reads screen text:

Soulspring, by Norman Klein.

11811181 views88 comments55 favs

The call came...