Stream of Consciousness
Performative Ritual
He has certain expectations for the women in his life. Her closet represents many of them; only whores show their shoulders or their knees. Skirts must be long. Tank tops are simply for other people. People who aren’t them. People who aren’t decent like they are.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA7 days ago in Fiction
Filial Laws
“What your father needs is patience and a consistent routine,” the doctor says. What he needs is something he never gave me. Our relationship was never built on gentleness. The relationship only depended on rigid, unforgiving authority. When that failed, nothing remained. It runs like a lack of feedback in a open-loop.
By Sama Habib8 days ago in Fiction
Dark Chocolate Benefits
All right, Ms. Anderson, I want to be clear about chocolate. Not milk chocolate. Dark chocolate is healthy. It seems you are not a fan of dark chocolate. That is okay, I will give you the information, and you may change your mind. Of course, everything in moderation, correct?
By Andrea Corwin 11 days ago in Fiction
The Paris Bed Diary
June 14th, 2017 She got her first full-time job and first stable health insurance plan at 21. Even the ability to go to a doctor when she is coughing up phlegm is not something that was given to her. She had to earn it on her own.
By Leigh Victoria Phan, MS, MFA11 days ago in Fiction
The Lesions of Devotion . Top Story - February 2026.
Every day I set myself down on the freshly cut lawn and strip myself bare. I take my guitar and finger the frets and pick at the strings, listening for dissonance. My life is dissonance. I twist the tuning pegs until each string sounds bright. Then I kneel, calves pointing behind me, kneecaps facing forward. All exposed to the breeze. I close my eyes and play the melody.
By Paul Stewart11 days ago in Fiction
How to Fuck Around. AI-Generated.
Language is alive, and slang is often where it grows the fastest. Among the many expressions that have emerged and evolved over the last decade, few have captured the imagination—or the eyebrows—of English speakers quite like the phrase “fuck around.” At first glance, it seems crude, irreverent, and downright offensive. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find that it’s much more than a simple expletive; it’s a linguistic mirror reflecting modern culture, humor, and social dynamics.
By Ayesha Lashari11 days ago in Fiction
ELIAS!
At eighty, Elias discovered that silence weighs heavily sometimes. It weighs on the chest. It fills every room. It lingers long after footsteps should have come back. Silence, he realized too late, isn’t just the absence of sound. It is everything that never returned.
By Lori A. A.12 days ago in Fiction
The NEED to always WIN!
The need for humans to always win is a driving force of immense proportions. We must choose craft - for the other side of our soul would simmer in a never ending fire of which only a dragon of legend could endure, without imploding and exploding.
By Novel Allen12 days ago in Fiction
Hollywood Hils
1 —When I was a little girl, my home wasn’t exactly a welcoming place. My parents argued all the time and completely forgot about me. The only thing that could take my mind off reality was the movies on TV. They transported me to another world… sometimes a horror movie, other times a western, a comedy, a drama… whatever. And it may sound silly, but watching those movies on the small TV screen made my eyes light up and made me truly happy, even if only for the duration of the movie.
By Cesar González Torres12 days ago in Fiction
