Recommended stories

Kim Chow Click Click

14861486 views22 comments22 favs

Ok American dogs. Here my first story I wrote when I only two days old! Then evil moderator delete me and story go away. Now I three days old. I try to remember.

A Documentary About Sharks

20562056 views77 comments11 fav

As I lean over the chrome rail and look at the floor on the street level of the mall, I ask myself a question. If I was to fall, I wonder if it would be better to land and lie there with my eyes open or closed. Closed, I decide, would make me look like I was at peace, open…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 55

11721172 views44 comments22 favs

The rising sun was hidden from his eyes by the hips of the woman next to him in the bed.

robin

11711171 views22 comments22 favs

(v 1: I picked up a robin yesterday. It was red and puffed and in the middle of the road in front of the car on the way to the grocery store. I put on the brakes and turned on the flashing red light to signal my stop. I picked the bird up and moved it to the side of the…

1980, What I Wanted

14761476 views55 comments22 favs

Not to...Witness such sufferingWatch as a life fades awayReceive the callAttend this funeralBe surrounded by well meaning family and friendsStand by helplessly as my father sobs in his brother's armsNotice the pain settle in my brother's eyesSee my grandparents' tortured,…

Fill In the Void

11421142 views55 comments22 favs

I’m not in the habit of just hanging out on the corner handing out “free stuff,” you know. I figured it was going to cost you. But I was wrong. It cost me instead. You can only float near the ceiling when you’ve become an emptied vessel. No hope or

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 9

15301530 views33 comments22 favs

Michiko stood in front of Steinway Hall on West 57th Street.

Uncle Ned

15361536 views44 comments22 favs

There was this old guy named Ned. He swept floors. No one knew much about him. He'd been around for years sweeping the concrete floors of the hangar-sized buildings that housed the major mechanical service departments at an old amusement park.

A Tale

13691369 views44 comments22 favs

But you don’t know how to fly, Bunny! How ever will we survive?

A Band of Feline Brothers

15521552 views55 comments22 favs

I am not covetous for catnip, Nor care where I sleep at night. It irks me not who takes my Favorite chair, or swats me off a table.

One More Silver Dollar

16011601 views44 comments22 favs

Culloden County, MS - 1989 All Janine knew was the idiot had a gun. As to why he would ever need one was beyond her. He couldn't look dumber holding it, either. He was too small for it, or at least he looked that way to…

It Was the Heart of the Sixties

11471147 views55 comments11 fav

I remember Freddie K bringing these fat Thai joints back with him from Viet Nam, and just one of those things would get us all so stoned at parties in Jolene’s upstairs apartment that we felt as if we could float down the long flight of stairs like we w

On Being Bald....

18101810 views33 comments22 favs

Hair today...gone tomorrow The sun beats down on my balding crown.

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 7

13151315 views22 comments22 favs

The family castle, Krivoklat, pronounced something like sheevoklat, where my maternal grandmother’s family ran a hotel, was founded in 1109 A.D. (how long our family ran the hotel business is anybody’s guess, taken over by the Nazi’s, then the C

On Being Offered a Cup of "Grape Juice"

270270 views77 comments11 fav

I would drinkbut Iam unfortunatelychainedto a senseof selfpreservation.

Violet Hour

13521352 views55 comments22 favs

“My name is Violet,” I add. I am trying to stop lying. Going without cigarettes has been easier.

True Fear

20142014 views44 comments22 favs

Flush, a sputter, and the water level rises, slowly. Flush again.

Confidence

12741274 views33 comments22 favs

one day the words will form an order, one day the words will make a rhyme, one day the words will make a meaning

New Moon, Old Moon

12171217 views55 comments22 favs

The moon once rose on its own Now it takes a series of Ropes and pulleys to get it up Because it’s so old And you can hear these audible groans Coming from its craters As it’s forced to listen to forgotten lovers Obsessing over old lov

Sauna

13371337 views66 comments00 favs

The arid paramour, your breath is hot, dry, cedar. I sweat you corpus fluids and salt and the unnamably impure.

Growly

244244 views77 comments11 fav

As usual, Linda came to Richmond's house for their date. It was alright because Richmond was the most affectionate man she had ever been with. As usual, the lovers ordered in barbecue, this time Korean, and as usual Richmond bounded to the door to…

The Nude Pianist: A Novel: Chapter 26

13811381 views33 comments22 favs

Friday afternoon. Angelique Brody knocked Francesco’s studio door.

The First Time

16311631 views55 comments22 favs

Do you remember who I am yet? I remember the first time you made love to me. It appears I was one of the lucky ones … it wasn’t in a car, it wasn’t in your Dad’s boat, underwater, or any other weird place you've written about. It was actual

Scar

21832183 views33 comments22 favs

Since Patty got the lumpectomy, she won’t sleep with anyone but Cal, because he was the one who went with her to the hospital and wasn’t surprised when he saw the scar.

why are we feeding the lawyer?

17091709 views77 comments11 fav

They were press­ing her about the money, it was always about the money.

I Saw God in a Wheelchair

20322032 views44 comments22 favs

I saw God sobbing in a wheelchair His legs didn't work and He had no hair I saw God sobbing in a wheelchair Nobody else was there Nobody stopped to stare Nobody seemed to care

Secrets

14511451 views66 comments22 favs

She buried her secrets in a bowl of brownie mix....

Bird Words

13001300 views33 comments22 favs

a thinking man's bird high above coated with scent of life

Mornings

13461346 views33 comments22 favs

Over the last years of her life, my mornings began when Mom decided to play. Sitting on her black, ball-and-claw stool, she'd raise the key cover, stretch her neck and shoulders, and take slow, deliberate breaths. A deep, meditative state descended over the room and…

Esmeralda

14801480 views33 comments22 favs

Being an uncredited bonus composition, written in the sublimest access of divine afflatus this poet believes his lyric verse has ever known. “In olden times, dark was not counted fair”: Those were the words, I think, of some old poet. …