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Interview with a Jesus Lizard

by Ed Higgins, posted 2 days ago 3737 views00 comments00 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!

Idiot's Guide to the Environment

by Darryl Price, posted 5 days ago 7575 views22 comments33 favs

Killing trees is a crime against the earth. A crime against the earth is a crime against the universe. A crime against the universe is a crime against all beings.Killing birds is a crime against skyand wind. Killing humans is genocide.Why do we never ask what…

Punchlines of a cosmic joke

by strannikov, posted Sep 26, 2025 644644 views00 comments00 favs

Creating a world in which no one believes . . . killing a world in which no one could believe.

The Big LARP

by stephen hastings-king, posted Sep 18, 2025 814814 views22 comments11 fav

The ambient sound wheezes on.

use

by Valerie Henderson, posted Aug 26, 2025 21852185 views66 comments44 favs

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The Circle of Life

by Aline Carriere, posted Aug 26, 2025 22302230 views11 comment22 favs

Maybe you could buy a Volunteer,” Carol suggested. Ma huffed. “You know we don't have the money for that. And besides I never liked the idea of Volunteers — taking advantage of the poor like that.”

Circularity (story fragment)

by Lorenzo Baehne, posted Aug 22, 2025 21802180 views00 comments00 favs

Ian Markham stood before the massive triangular window of Circularity's pyramidal office building. Its Technicolor hologram, a coup in advertising sloganeering, urgently flashed the company's ubiquitous tagline—IT'S NOT JUST AN ADVENTURE. IT'S A SECOND CHANCE! …

Blind-Sided, PT 1.

by Michael D. Brown, posted Aug 03, 2025 28282828 views00 comments00 favs

BLIND-SIDED 1 The humid night air clung to Julio's skin as he and Marco stepped off the bus near campus, laughter trailing behind them like the smell of esquites from the street vendor across the road. The political rally had been noisy and full of energy - and…

to You

by Jeffery Klaehn, posted Aug 03, 2025 27572757 views33 comments22 favs

A glance—I dissolved completely.

O Fortuna

by Michael Parker, posted Jul 30, 2025 27952795 views1111 comments66 favs

This poem begins my poetry collection. It is about the pain and suffering I experienced when I had an attack of two pulmonary embolisms, one in the right lung, one in the left. This nearly killed me. I lived with the pain in my lungs whenever I took a bre

Brian Epstein's Letter to His Mother

by Amanda Harris, posted Jul 23, 2025 29092909 views1010 comments55 favs

All that loves green produces green.

At the Crossroads Bar

by Joani Reese, posted Jul 22, 2025 30043004 views55 comments44 favs

An eye patch waits aslant his passenger seat.

Because

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Jul 06, 2025 28372837 views77 comments66 favs

Because I'm old and this is the Way I Do Things now...

June 29

by Tim G. Young, posted Jul 03, 2025 28102810 views88 comments44 favs

the only thing that impresses me now is the state of my inebriation

The Wind

by Steven Gowin, posted Jun 29, 2025 28042804 views55 comments55 favs

The wind comes up relentless in the afternoon

Me and Sid and Tom and John Yount

by David Ackley, posted Jun 10, 2025 29622962 views22 comments11 fav

True story

The Sound of One Story Clapping

by Tantra Bensko, posted Jun 02, 2025 29382938 views11 comment22 favs

And aren't we are so then so rarely The hero in another's story When we want to be. And why are we so always Rounding stories on the heroes Who don't want to be? And aren't we are so then are so rarely Heroes in each others' …



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