Recommended stories

The Fourth Prague Defenestration: 19

15021502 views22 comments22 favs

But when the KGB went out the castle window, what a surprise was waiting for them. Because we had lined the pit with a huge dung heap, and camouflaged it with a colored pink wrapping as if it were feathers, just like Cristo had done. We wrapped the shit p

Deciding to Leave

12071207 views22 comments22 favs

...Yet today, I fear / ordinary names for fantastic objects: Sex, Love, Mind.

Arborist Abridged

20562056 views55 comments00 favs

Besides, that might have been the area of his birth, and if so, Jacob was now the director, priest, pallbearer, driver, and custodian of a hometown funeral

Short Blonde, Long Red

773773 views22 comments22 favs

Natalie blushed the vodka with an almost pointless twist of the fruit juice as I fought in my inside jacket pocket for my wallet...

Maginot Line

7777 views33 comments22 favs

We shared a bedroom, my sister and I, all our lives through high school. This was unfortunate, as she was extremely neat and I, two years older, was extremely messy. In my defense, I was extremely clean and she was not. There is a…

Northeast of Eden (Memoir; Editor: Charlotte Curtis)

15411541 views22 comments22 favs

Snakes have no eyelids, no hips, no lobby in Washington (some creatures do!) and little support at home.

To the Folksinger Just Arrived

12871287 views44 comments11 fav

Whisper salutations to your irises

notes on flying

12371237 views22 comments22 favs

Going to Atlanta 6AM Despite all the issues presented by Delta this morning (the rescheduling of my 7am flight at 1am to a flight at 10, giving me a two minute layover time in Detroit, and my eventual own rescheduling of my flight to 6am, and waiting…

Rejection Isn’t Always Everything It’s Racked Up To Be

12771277 views22 comments22 favs

I was so messed up when you left me, and I admit I went around searching the faces of the crowd for the man who filled your womb.

Dead Man Sleeping

23122312 views44 comments11 fav

Joyce Addleberg hated sleeping alone, so when her husband died in his sleep one night, it was only natural that she kept him around.

Chinese Whispers

8181 views22 comments22 favs

.

Day's Heat and Mistaken Winters

19931993 views66 comments11 fav

Elizabeth stood outside my door one afternoon. I greeted her from across the studio, put on some water to boil and walked to the door. I took her hand, held it to my cheek, and led her to my dining room table.

Bad Listener

16661666 views44 comments11 fav

Sunday afternoon was the best. The kids drew straws for a chance to sit on the stool in the Kitchen with the broken armrest. I think mom thought it was an antique but it was just a piece of shit her dad picked up second hand.

Why I Cannot be your Facebook Friend

16041604 views33 comments11 fav

The TV projects from an insect arm. It has the face of my ex-husband, smiling and void. I like to set small fires and inhale them.

Edward Ogle the Tenth

11501150 views11 comment22 favs

shitting out the Mona Lisa.

Blocked - A Facebook Tale

26722672 views22 comments00 favs

In the LOL playground environment of Facebook, one man's world is turned upside down when a new female friend suddenly blocks him from any further communication.From Chap.1: "I kept thinking there was something familiar about you, and now I remember."

Collapsible Horizon

17111711 views44 comments22 favs

Mama sleeps in bed with us. The blue of her ghost sleeps underneath me. I love her more than anything. What does she think when we are naked, when we yell, or mimic, imbibe, curse, cry, shake, make love, roll over on her, want to die?

Monkey House

16441644 views66 comments11 fav

We walked into the light where tired elephants slung their trunks and big cats moved over hills. My head was swollen, the whole back of my skull throbbing and black.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

777777 views22 comments22 favs

Interviewer: So, you walk on water, right? How is that possible? Jesus Lizard: Well, I only run on water, and upright on my hind legs. Haha, if I tried just walking on water I’d sink quicker than St. Peter!

War Doc Week

12771277 views22 comments22 favs

Douchey Jake made me cry until my eyes puffed so much I couldn't see through them. I said hey look, to my friends who slept on the futon, don't I look like one of those dolls with the real fake eyelashes? The truth is I've been pretending I don't…

Never Read Literature When You're Drunk!

311311 views55 comments11 fav

A pale-faced manwearing a bright yellow wigonce said to me“never read literature when you're drunk"now here I am,at a window tablein the Libertine cafe,eating my words,wishing I had been a monk.Across the street loomsa gallery front,where, in large red…

All Wet

13471347 views22 comments22 favs

the small break of consciousness that is my dreamswaterso much wateri can never forgive the watertoo many tears

Changes Are

13871387 views22 comments11 fav

When people drastically change everything about themselves repeatedly, don't they eventually just end up alienating everyone?

WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BOUGHT THE FIREWORKS

11061106 views22 comments22 favs

My chin is half-eaten. My chest is gone. There is a rhythm to how each flame licks me. Like how you used to in the mornings before work. Before the coffee. Before the toaster. Before a rose clenched between your teeth and dancing.

Heavyweight

13421342 views22 comments22 favs

That afternoon, after I'd swallowed that weight. Felt like a sinker, one of those weights that fishermen attach to their line to make sure the line goes down far enough. Go down far enough there, and I'll find it. That's what I was on about, that I had…

The Passing of a Hero

12841284 views44 comments11 fav

"...and time came hurtling behind him, gripped his shoulder/ jumped clean over him like a buck goat/ the world aged but he did not/ he spent his afternoons in an old car with fake leather seats/ drank cold beer under the olive trees/ or lay in a hammock/

The Bob Fosse Dream

21562156 views44 comments11 fav

----- Original Message ----- From :< brokengopher@hotmail.com> to: Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:15 PM Subject: The Bob Fosse Dream Dawn, Last night I had this dream that I was going through Bob Fosse's things. NowI don't know…

Go ahead

14401440 views99 comments00 favs

Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.

For Dejan S. & Bob V. & Gordy B.

18711871 views33 comments22 favs

Put blisters on your fingers and Put plasters on your head but Put peppers on your privates and You’ll wish that you were dead!

Now

17051705 views22 comments11 fav

‘Miguel! A pint of Guinness, please!' I might as well have asked for his mother's immortal soul. A smile as benign as a stiletto. But he served a clean and tidy pint.