March 22, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays
Zurich
E.T. Aragón
1
During my last couple of years in Spain, things—how shall we say?—spun out of control. It was like getting tossed by one of those huge ferocious Northern Californian waves that tumbles you, holds
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Dirty Martini
Kelsey Flaherty
Here I am on a Saturday night, preparing for another dreadful evening with a man my father handpicked
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Cheryl Perkins’ Black Bob
Jack Skelley
It goes unsaid that this game is really about kissing and groping.
The Slamming Screen Door
Whittney Teague
I was beginning to understand that when Nana said family protects family at any cost, she meant any cost.
You're Not a Lesbian, You Just Want to Be One
Liss Hansen
I want you to see me ignoring you.
In Like a Lamb
Nathan St Onge
My last few nights at Will’s house were strained but also pleasant. I consciously wanted to love him. And I did, in a way, but I was drifting.
Guardian angel.
Jatin Sharma
The terrains alien, the people / Extra terrestrial / Make sense do not.
On Emma Goldman's Revolution
Matti Ben-Lev
Punishments:
—deprivation of recreation
—bread and water diet
—48-hour dungeon stays; no bed, no food, no lights
Three Poems
Steve Gergley
My wife and I run around the tables in our moisture-wicking workout clothes for the entire 177-minute runtime of the masterful, twenty-nine-track album.
How to Get Exiled From Canada (a true story from 2011)
Scott Laudati
This was my chance! I moved to the seat in front of her and we lay across our seats and laughed together like a yin-yang necklace coming back together.
Baby Fever
Violet Gordon
or because I’d seen him unwrap the extra large condom and suddenly longed, anxiously and fatuously like a girl wanting her stuffed animal, for my first boyfriend who weighed less than me
How to Leave a Bar Looking Like a Clown
Christos Kalli
a Clown Slam: the slutty Christmas clown concerned with rent prices
The Little Sandbagger
Josh Lovins
The position in which you are structurally dependent on surrendering the entirety of your scheme, and all the various information edges embodied in it, each time you want to add someone to your team is a bad position to be in.
Lite Brite Strobes And Supertramp
Kim Barry Brunhuber
Alex burrowed into my cold, bright grave, nestled in tight.
Were You With Richard at Empire Diner?
Carrie Stetler
That night she found me on Facebook.
Stop Making Sense
Tyler Dempsey
The written word, music, visual arts. These, if done well, are the unconscious sneaking past the curtain. Using language to self-implode Logic. Some real Matrix shit.
Bay Area Girl
Josie Braaten
In the black screen, I watched M undress me slowly.
I wanted to cry.
Spectacular Spiritual Game
Uzodinma Okehi
We're given breath, also the mystery of life.
In the Wake
Aarti Adv
If I tell you what’s in the bag, will you let me continue to play dumb?
Truest Image
Amy DeBellis
Midway through our relationship, he had told me that whenever we had sex, he needed to think of other girls in order to stay hard. He told me everyone did it
I Like the Way It Hurts
Meredith Aristone
One night Evan and I got so drunk on grape liquor that we started making out in the shower
A Night On Earth With Mr. Hell
Danielle Chelosky
I consider asking Richard if he’ll piss on my book but I’m still too shy.




