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August 3, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Adiós, Eurydice

Juan René

It still bugs me that I never understood why she’d seen Hadestown eleven times (our first date was her twelfth).

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August 1, 2025 | Fiction

The Regular

Lydia Barnes

At this remark, her forehead crinkled, and it was clear that she hadn’t remembered their previous meeting. This should have come as no surprise to Lyle, who had lived forty-three-years of un-memorability. His style of dress unremarkable, his height medium, his face neither handsome nor ugly...

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July 31, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Double Fisting

Emily Atwood Kendall

The thing about being a lesbian in New York City is that on the third Thursday of any given month you’ll have to stand in a hot Brooklyn bar that is absolutely teeming with gay people. At least four

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July 30, 2025 | Nonfiction

Hauntings 

Vita Tate

I was ready to string paper streamers, wires, and sausages from my ceiling and set them on fire. I looked for any crystal chandelier to mount. I longed to feast on croissants and pickles from the tip of a spear. After shrugging off the yoke of Christian dogma, I didn’t need to bear another set of rules.