Recommended stories

New Moon, Old Moon

542542 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

11571157 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

10411041 views33 comments22 favs

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

The First Time

13161316 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

18321832 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?

13671367 views77 comments11 fav

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

I Saw God in a Wheelchair

15771577 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

11731173 views66 comments22 favs

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

Bird Words

10221022 views33 comments22 favs

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

Mornings

10891089 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

12541254 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. …

3 Seconds Till Uncertainty

862862 views22 comments22 favs

First they Dust off the bottom of the sky But then the clock gets stuck At 3 seconds till uncertainty Then they Dye the sunset clouds To make them more Transparent So as not to confuse The human mind With the stuff of uncommon Nostalgia

Same Old Song and Dance

12281228 views44 comments22 favs

You want to get laid talking socks

Hasn't Got A Prayer

10831083 views22 comments22 favs

This really bothered me, and I questioned my penis about it.

you were on top of us freely

973973 views44 comments22 favs

I remember you were on top of us freely, and we were starry with enjoyment. You turned to the beautiful youth because we were light, because we were so full of life that our skin alone could not seem to contain us. We were burning, burning on all

Snack

11151115 views33 comments22 favs

Kerryn saved us from ourselves really. Would you be reading this had she eaten it?

Our Love

11981198 views11 comment22 favs

I am tired of playing the old game: Saying something old in a new way. So let me do the opposite:

So If You See The Vulture Coming

17391739 views44 comments22 favs

Dale of the threadbare corduroy blazer and the same two plaid button-down shirts, of the unkempt beard and short-shorn hair and holed ears, the plugs overloose and then lost so that the effect was not a toughening edginess, but deformity, the same self-in

Lament of the Horror Movie Marathon

13051305 views44 comments11 fav

I'm in our bed eating yesterday's pizza and chain-watching pirated foreign horror films

Dear A. Lien (Letter Two)

12171217 views55 comments22 favs

You’ve got Wikipedia. Look them up: vagina and penis. What Wikipedia will not tell you, however, is the thousands of years of human anguish, and rapture, wrapped up in those two organs.

The Rumble Strip

11051105 views44 comments11 fav

But, The Driver talked about speed. Something about pulling her off easy or we’ll blow our tires. “No telling what’s off that shoulder,” he’d say.

Bonnie the Baptized

20902090 views33 comments22 favs

Also, our daughter had learned to splash, causing us each time to break into spontaneous renditions of “Splish Splash (I Was Taking a Bath),” which made us not mind so much that we were getting covered in water.

What Momma Draws on Windows

10201020 views55 comments11 fav

...the woman of the sun, twelve stars around her head, the moon at her feet.

The Metaphysics of Cake

11721172 views55 comments22 favs

Can we ever truly know reality? I don’t think so. But fly in comfort my friend. Lean back and enjoy the thrust of those engines.

Global Arms - 2

11721172 views22 comments33 favs

While serving in government, she plotted to change it.

The Day I Got Fired From My Foundation Job

818818 views55 comments11 fav

But of course, I didn’t get the grant, so my day job in communications at Katzenfeld continued. It was the first job I got out of college. I had been there for over a year and my salary was less than my rent and student loans combined, so I had to keep my

Experts Say Planning Key to Spontaneous Sex

10961096 views44 comments22 favs

Priscilla Mainwaring has a little surprise in store for her husband Dan. “I’m going to greet him when he comes home on his 50th birthday wearing nothing but Saran Wrap,” she says. "The Cling Plus kind, not the Premium."

Samurai Kitteh

10641064 views33 comments22 favs

She did not know the passage of time, for she was just a bedraggled little kitty, but she stayed behind the lattice for many rising and settings of the Sun.

I May be Dried Up -- But I can Make You Breakfast in the Morning

11791179 views44 comments22 favs

Our dinner was over and we regretfully had to leave the restaurant. She leaves with enough shopping money for a few weeks. He, getting the rough end of the deal, has charged more money to his credit card at 19% plus cash withdrawal fees. So I ask myself