Recommended stories

Locations

16511651 views1313 comments1212 favs

They confess love for Karaoke and metal rock. They have purchased expensive Stratocasters and Zildjians.

Nola Visit

850850 views1313 comments1212 favs

The little Lady and I drove down to New Orleans to take in the Mardi Gras festivities we’d read so much about.

Crack Pot Bear Chili

11781178 views1414 comments1313 favs

Hunters took 925 bears in the 2020 season in Vermont

Self Portrait as a Drowned Man

18011801 views66 comments66 favs

The light, oblique and waning, filters through butcher’s paper to reveal a body suspended in death but never decomposing.

Yalta Pas de Deux

17711771 views2222 comments1010 favs

The Count was used to boredom but he had reached the point where he was even bored with boredom.

The Fifth Snatch

13911391 views1313 comments1212 favs

...oh shit...

All Will Be Well

18811881 views1818 comments99 favs

Jesus will walk on the water. Judas will walk on a technicality.

The Leg

15301530 views3131 comments1111 favs

They all looked for Vic's leg after the accident.

Escalation

15151515 views1919 comments1111 favs

Don't fall to sleep.

Junkyard Angel Baby Nomad

12841284 views1818 comments1111 favs

"We gotta get out of here", you said

The Grilled Saint

14151415 views1717 comments1212 favs

When asked to turn over the Church's riches / he brought before the Roman prefect the poor, blind, ragged and infirm.

Begettings

13591359 views1818 comments1212 favs

However did we make it this far/ without murdering one another as the other sleeps

Faith, Hope, and Charity

14961496 views1515 comments1212 favs

She wears three or four tattered sweaters on cool days. She pushes a basket borrowed from a grocery store. There is a plastic lawn bag in the basket with God knows what inside.

Corporal Punishment

18001800 views1414 comments1313 favs

When I was a little boy, I had a thing about women’s behinds.

Pen and Ink on Paper

14391439 views2121 comments88 favs

...ancient answers for new questions.

Black Bombers

13761376 views2323 comments1111 favs

The missions never change:/ To plant a bed of fast-blooming/ Flowers of annihilation/ Across an unspecific plain.

He Holds an Expired Visa and a Monday Grudge

16921692 views1616 comments1212 favs

Somehow the world survives

One old and one new

984984 views1919 comments1111 favs

served as it is/ among these friends. The frayed filaments/ tickle my chin and irritate my nostrils,

solace

12161216 views2020 comments1111 favs

the frost has made all tender greens bow

Unveiling Kirkiss Automated Amazon Reviews!!!

15701570 views2020 comments1212 favs

No! No! Nonononono!

Sweetie and Jack

13331333 views1313 comments1313 favs

Let's walk through this park. We can talk until dark. You have the look of a wolf. I'm not stupid, Jack. I'm a lamb, you'll see, once you get to know me. That tat is fierce and your leathers tight black. My ink is old and black suits me, I'm told. …

Model T Ford

17411741 views1919 comments88 favs

It lies in rusting riot of shadowed days. Flying high its emblem wings, forever stalled.

Lips Like Oysters

681681 views1313 comments1010 favs

By the end of my Saturday night shift at the Oyster Bar I look like some kind of filthy nurse

The Boy Who Knew Death

27572757 views2323 comments1010 favs

As the sun rose each morning, so did the lonely old man with it; a sad limping figure strolling across the front lawn with a cigar tucked in his mouth, lighting fresh candles here and there, perhaps on an imagined grave of some loved one long lost to the infirmity of time…

Endurance Capital

140140 views1919 comments1212 favs

...

Lunch at Lefty's

15751575 views1515 comments1313 favs

Sixteen years married, and now she wants a wedding ring. He brings her a box of Cracker Jack. She doesn’t think it is funny.

Desilu, Three Cameras

25262526 views1919 comments1212 favs

Ricky imagines bending her over his conga, yanking that bushy dark ponytail like reins and ripping into her. He sits, watches, legs crossed, smoking a cigarette. He needs a dancer for the Jezebel number now that Connie is showing. This girl would make a f

Sloth

18681868 views1717 comments1111 favs

(Insert poignant line here)

The Gratitude of Bones

19141914 views1515 comments1111 favs

During war, as in any terrible time of upheaval, burials are merely quick words and a scattering of dirt, if the dead are lucky.

Missed Connections

25622562 views1313 comments1212 favs

We were on the L train.You were reading Fifty Shades of Gray;I was reading One Hundred Years of Solitude. You never looked up until just as I moved off, always looking back your way and hopingyou would lift your head. And then you did, at the last moment,but…