Stories tagged fiction

Rejection

193193 views1111 comments99 favs

No one fucking knew anything really. Including us. But we were driven by fear.

Soccer

428428 views88 comments66 favs

the phony oo-rah spirit

Drink Up Darling

11091109 views00 comments00 favs

Darling Valentine’s pale legs shone in the dark, a beacon for the car driving without headlights along a tree-lined row of brownstones.

At Seventeen

11 view00 comments00 favs

I want to become a boy.

Vanilla

700700 views77 comments66 favs

There's no way to unravel myself anymore.

Julie Martin

240240 views33 comments11 fav

To describe Julie Martin in those days is to give a resume of prairie truth: her good soul and giving heart were the stunning elements of her beauty. From afar she was a demographic sample like millions of women who, unlike Cassandra, could not afford to

After Sex

535535 views99 comments1010 favs

She looked at him the way you would look at old meat.

To My First Crush

495495 views77 comments55 favs

you would've hated my guts

Without a Goal, in Need of

109109 views11 comment11 fav

Excerpt from novel in progress "The Sun Eaters"

2626 views11 comment00 favs

"...everything is a strange dream."

The Day the Internet Disappeared

13891389 views77 comments44 favs

Myrna woke up with a start and sensed a strange silence in the air. She quickly flipped on an electric switch and when the lights came on she breathed a sigh of relief. Dawn was just breaking so she went back to bed and pulled the comforter over her head.

Below Heaven

654654 views1515 comments1414 favs

Nobody ever teaches you how to be a woman.

SEIZE

886886 views00 comments00 favs

“You're right by the mall, the cultural district, and just a few minutes from downtown,” the realtor smiled. “And it's on a bus line?” the wife asked. “Yes it…

All Men Troubled End Well

112112 views11 comment00 favs

Sergio spoke of his madness. He painted during the day and at night—sometimes upright, sometimes leaning over his canvas with the brush in his hand dangling like an errant pendulum. His hair was thick, black curls bouncing with each brushstroke. He drank

A lie must not advertise itself.

240240 views11 comment00 favs

Dreaming a word I woke: Encomium? There was no one about and I looked. Maybe I was grateful for waking from sleep again or just from sleep. A fool's freedom. Both. All. Time now looked like a door. But behaved like a vacuum. Still the consequences were the …