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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Ideas: 4 of 22

Rachael, be awake. Be a character that I made in tennis shoes stained with red brown dirt and wear your heart at your feet until I tell you to scoop it up neat in a plastic bucket complete with a fat sponge for washing the T-bird. Come awake and be. Rachael. Speak. For me? My back aches and these shoes pinch. This shirt chok...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Gummy bears: 2 of 7

Juicy and sticky little red and orange bits hurt when they wedged up under the wire of his braces until he bitched about it, open mouthed with as much reeking breath as he could propel in his friend's direction. "Well don't eat 'em!" Bruce would say with his back half turned to Gil, short for Gilbert. Bruce brought the candy...
Relationships & Family > Dating Dilemmas & Advice How to find someone who loves you and your pets: 21 of 49

As any woman who has recently been run down by the dating scene could tell us, the relationship between men and dogs is as undeniable as the relationship between dating and chasing cars. You never expect to catch one, but you bark anyway, and when you do catch one you don't know how that happened or what to do with it. Unlik...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Knowledge: 4 of 9

If there was one thing Denise knew it was that mustard was not that expensive, and that everybody could afford it, even Grey Poupon. Such knowledge produced a clamping pressure in her head when she considered it from behind the perspective of what her brother's ex wife had just told her. First, there was her sister, who in p...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: The old man I'll never forget: 8 of 12

She was young, timid and lonely, with hair that fell into her face and a slouching, although not shuffling gait that betrayed the habitually grim expression on her face even when it wasn't visible. It gave her smiles a rarefied and precious quality that would channel through groups of people when she displayed it, embarrassi...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Eating: 17 of 24

Taken: more commitment than a kiss a swallow, gullet going slide forget process involuntary swig of carbohydrate mud slide. Dissipated, finished, done. A part of you made without question flesh without flesh within a peel of apple skin a human rind built and walking on this given and grown, the last and once living edible.
Food & Drink > Cooking (Other) Cooking is becoming a lost art: 15 of 19

While the need to feed ourselves and the desire to have pleasure attached to the act of consumption prevents the complete elimation of the art of cooking, American lifestyles make it less and less feasible to choose to create the food our families and ourselves eat at home. It's a busy time in American culture, now also comp...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Deadly dog bite stories: 7 of 8

The cop thought very poorly of me. I could tell because I did not know the zipcode of the area where I lived, a small town beside another small town that I had reached by walking over a bridge one summer afternoon, passing several dogs in the process. One Golden Retriever leapt to the limit of his rope several times as he en...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Subway diaries: 17 of 19

The thing about the city, what Juno remembered most was the stories of the cars that traveled underground, in continuous channels under where you stepped, like they belonged there. When he thought about it he brought to mind ideas of holes carved in the earth by over-sized working badgers with thick claws on their stubbed fi...
Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Misunderstanding: 46 of 49

The water was cold and bracing. "Refreshing!" cried Bill as he splashed the contents of the sink basin on his face, arms and hands. "Just like camping," he continued when Rupert gave him a frigid look. Even during the day it was dark in the house now, the sky lightening since daybreak to a grey tone the color of an office co...