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November 9, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Potty Mouth

Ava Bogle

As if he were some seasonal pollen that gets stuck up my nose and reminds me what time it is, every year at the beginning of spring it all flashes back and I’m right there again in that sticky

Potty Mouth photo
Fairy Tale Romance ​​  ~or~ ​   Virtue Rewarded photo

November 8, 2025 | Fiction

Fairy Tale Romance ​​  ~or~ ​   Virtue Rewarded

Daniel Galef

​I gave him two months of my fingernails and toenails in a purple mesh sachet that formerly held a bar of scented soap. He had never said anything about toenails, but it seemed like the sort of thing he would appreciate. And he did.

Portrait photo

November 7, 2025 | Fiction

Portrait

Greg Gerke

Coming back to people after too many knuckled hours in books…and…it’s amazing to think I had two parents and they are now dead, in the shadow world, and maybe watching me continue to flail: look at bodies on the computer screen and eat too many tortilla chips.

Mike's Hard Lemonade photo

November 7, 2025 | Fiction

Mike's Hard Lemonade

Leya ivanov

Trying to kill my boyfriend’s dog. Drinking Mike’s Hard Lemonade

November 6, 2025 | Poetry

Then, I escaped you: 2 poems

Piper S. McKeever

I want you to see this as romantic

November 5, 2025 | Fiction

Photophobia

Crystal Taylor

Monica invites you to her church while you’re jumping rope. You’ve never been, and she tells you they mostly eat donuts and play, and talk about the bible sometimes, but just a little. Since donuts

November 4, 2025 | Nonfiction

Punk Rock Appreciation Hour

Emma Reed Jones

The memories form a bridge, but the boards are loose. If I step in the wrong place, my ankle twists. I fall. And then everything comes crashing down.

Drew once wrote a poem about bridges. He gave

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