March 3, 2023 | Book Review
Lovely Pamela: A Review of Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry and Truth
Barrie Miskin
There’s an impulse to reduce the Tommy and Pam love story to easy pop-psychology terms: they had a trauma bond, he had a Madonna/Whore complex after she became a mother.
March 3, 2023 | Trip Reports
Pure and Consuming Terror
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We drank the acid. I immediately felt fucked.
March 2, 2023 | Fiction
Two Stories
David Kuhnlein
I imagined finding him hanged beneath the creak of a taut rope as often as I didnt.
March 2, 2023 |
TOILET CONVERSATIONS: PT. 2 W/ JEZEBEL
Miles Marie
If, for instance, Jezebel had to use the men’s room for some reason, I would rather pee on myself.
IN RELATIONSHIP
Greg Gerke
That’s why we are “in relationship,” to deliberately alienate each other’s unhappiness—to build an incredible shrine to unhappiness that would be seen for miles in a flatland, if such a shrine could be visible.
Mr. Binky's Adult Superstore
Jazz Boothby
I spent the next couple hours grooming myself and getting drunk. I was sick all the time back then.
Hit something
Hayden Church
Do you ever get mad
and want to
hit something?
Haley
Maya Staples
I tolerated Marcus and Haley because I knew their drill. Marcus would pick me up with drugs coursing through his system
Third Night on Viibryd Without Eating First
Laughlin Cole
Hallucinated a flaming forest as if lucid dreaming around 9 p.m. Shit myself. Barfed orange slushy chunks.
Mirror Mirror On The Wall, Who’s The Biggest Asshole Of Them All
Steve Anwyll
I blast the airhorn before the lump on the floor knows what’s going on.
I LOVE D-BOYZ
Christian Bodney
don’t say the truth
it’s presumptuous and tastes like an airhead
Cooperstown Psych Ward Diary
Jesse Hilson
My wife watched me walk headfirst into a mirror.
Koans for the Ugly
Chris R. Morgan
Now there is a skeleton outside my window. And skeletons on all the dating app profiles.
A World of Silences
Noah Cicero
The face in my mirror keeps getting older –
Into the face of the man who beat me
Young Robert De Niro
Hannah E. Joyner
I reminded myself that I spent just as many lonely afternoons in the State Library of Victoria with a pile of international Vogues as I did at a Goodwill in the Valley.
In the Eyes of Elephants: A Review of Prince Harry's 'Spare'
Katie Frank
I thought maybe I would learn something about how to be less judgemental, or something.
Jersey Devil’s Breath
Anna Krivolapova
Every winter, the Jersey Shore freezes into an old car in the driveway, tarped and bricked until May.
Twelve Hour Karma Cycle
Sam Redlark
A few minutes later I was presented with a tall, condensation-covered glass, containing an opaque, dark-green liquid that looked like it had been skimmed off the surface of a stagnant pond. I took a tentative sip.
Maximo the Magnificent
Adam Johnson
How they stabbed me and got away with it!
Jen Beagin on her “fast-paced and horny” novel Big Swiss
Anna Dorn
I guess my approach is not to take myself too seriously, which sounds kind of dumb and obvious, and just to write the sort of book I most like to read, which is usually something heavy but also light on its feet, fast-paced and horny, and generally not too full of itself.
How to Cruise When You Know Nothing
Z.H. Gill
He came down my throat, I slurped it all up.
My Big Sad Disability Essay
Kathryn Fitzpatrick
I didn’t want to write this essay, but I know somebody will publish it and feel good about themselves for platforming a disabled voice.
I’ll kill myself if you leave
John Doe
Our lovemaking is a demilitarized zone.
A Sex Addict Walks Into a Sex Party
L Scully
Shit, is this what the Zoom room people mean when they say fantasy addict?
Killing Yourself to Live: a read on Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool
Craigen Z Oster
This final image crushed me. It was a forewarning of what identity destruction can lead to if we
don’t truly understand ourselves to begin with.