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International Cello Day

by Darryl Price, posted 4 days ago 8181 views00 comments00 favs

Losing interest. We're all just the same, children underneath, strawberries, the crouching sun. Don't be precious. I want to talk with you about everything that means nothing. I don't want to join your subscriptions, army. Sorry. I'd…

when your muse has left the building

by Joanne Jagoda, posted Dec 25, 2025 126126 views55 comments55 favs

maybe it’s a good thing your muse has taken temporary leave because at least she’s not pecking away at you like an itch you can’t scratch

A Regime With No King

by Amanda Harris, posted Dec 10, 2025 256256 views55 comments33 favs

Blank space / governs the minds of small children

Bowling With Diane Keaton

by Collin Kelley, posted Dec 07, 2025 157157 views44 comments44 favs

Friday night, 80s halcyon,a memory of October bowling.The suburban lanes loudwith kids and kinetic releaseof balls slamming on maple.I have no footwork, no senseof release, fingers sweatyin the grips, resin droppingwith a hollow boomfollowed by derision from more adept…

Started by a Sudden Change

by Dianne McKnight-Warren, posted Nov 17, 2025 243243 views33 comments22 favs

Erma's last task, as it happened...

Black and White

by Paul de Denus, posted Nov 16, 2025 213213 views33 comments33 favs

Chris and I have an understanding. We've been playing cops and robbers all morning, running around and stirring up shit.

the sensual tactility of tall buildings

by eamon byrne, posted Oct 31, 2025 273273 views66 comments22 favs

There's a nice line in M. Tafuri's essay “Architecture and Cities in the United States 1870-1910” concerning the relationship between land values and building costs:“… whereas the simple parceling-up of surface lots is the product of an elementary…

Barred caller

by David Ackley, posted Oct 30, 2025 219219 views33 comments11 fav

overheard

The Roses

by Erika Byrne-Ludwig, posted Oct 27, 2025 264264 views44 comments33 favs

Does it ever happen to you to wish to talk to somebody? Just somebody. Anyone. A stranger you might meet. Just to talk. About anything, even of the rain. Of the sore you have on your foot, of the daffodil in bloom, of everything and nothing. This lady sat at my…

Mrs. Penfield

by Carl Santoro, posted Oct 13, 2025 488488 views22 comments22 favs

Now her right breast was annoying her.

Interview with a Jesus Lizard

by Ed Higgins, posted Oct 10, 2025 297297 views11 comment11 fav

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!

Punchlines of a cosmic joke

by strannikov, posted Sep 26, 2025 838838 views33 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 10851085 views44 comments22 favs

The ambient sound wheezes on.

use

by Valerie Henderson, posted Aug 26, 2025 23612361 views66 comments44 favs

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The Circle of Life

by Aline Carriere, posted Aug 26, 2025 24532453 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 (act 1)

by Lorenzo Baehne, posted Aug 22, 2025 24252425 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 30053005 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…



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