Cherrypicked stories
Underwater
without you my life aches a desert where the walls of sand stifle my breath choke my heart tells me: leave this marshland behind you only get one...
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- 865 reads
Jonah The Turkey Russler
Happy Birthday Jonah
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- 1171 reads
Baby Dragonfly
this is dedicated to Ragan Sutterfield
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- 398 reads
Making Baby
A comical look at pregnancy and birth
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- 371 reads
Telly Addict
light hearted ghost story
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- 512 reads
O: Visiting Grandpa Sheppard
Chapter: Kid, Visiting Grandpa Sheppard Today we are visiting Grandpa Sheppard, my mother's father. He lives in Vider, which sounds to me like some...
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- 976 reads
X: 3/3/03
Work Diary, 3/3/03 I hate the cold, which begs the question: What am I doing in a hotel room at the bottom of a ski slope, two miles closer to outer...
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- 870 reads
My little sister Becky-Boo
She's 2 and three quaters and she's mad.
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- 430 reads
W: 2/28/03
Work Diary, 2/28/03 I lost my virginity to both sexes at the age of seventeen. The first - female - was in the front seat of my aunt's 1983 Honda...
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- 941 reads
Ugly Party Time!
Sometimes, when all else fails, it's time for the kids to get ugly....
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- 655 reads
Smoke
Smoke by Ragan Sutterfield He was out again. I could see him, hunched against the cold, smoking. I watched for a while out the window. He had his...
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- 483 reads
Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday by Ragan Sutterfield It had been raining since the afternoon, and the street lamps reflected white on the pavement. The rain had moved...
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- 391 reads
Communication
"What is the nutritional value of snot?" "What?" she snapped. "Or ear wax. Is eating your ear wax good for you?" She looked across. He had his index...
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- 1978 reads
L: The Slime Pit
Chapter: Kid, The Slime Pit Unlike the bayou by our house, the bayou by our new apartment building is lined with concrete. The sides dip at a sharp...
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- 887 reads
G) Day's Journey
Late sun on silent waters, As the shadows spread Across the fields To a group of children Playing by the brook. Lazy grazing evening cattle Look on...
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- 1084 reads
D - Magbull Ride
Soradina meets Agent Mears
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- 2313 reads
E) Silver Steel Siren
Dirty sweet damaged Silver steel siren, Clawed in the darkness. You rake through the coals of your life. I break you, In your black shrine, Strip the...
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- 1040 reads
Jittery
Suspense for results and I'm JITTERY!
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- 702 reads
K: Little Sister's Birth
Chapter: Kid, Little Sister's Birth My aunt and my mother bring her home, a pink, wrinkled thing in a miniature bathtub. My aunt carries the plastic...
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- 794 reads
Virus
You said, '' Silence surrounds you like a disease.'' You were afraid that I was contagious. Vaccination came in the form of nasal ingestents and...
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- 720 reads