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May 9, 2025 | Nonfiction

Called Back

Megan Ortiz

Silly’s hands were tangled in his hair. His gaze snapped back to mine. “You didn’t hurt me, Elle. Not at all.”

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Kate Folk on Sky Daddy photo

May 8, 2025 | Interview

Kate Folk on Sky Daddy

Anna Dorn

One time years ago, a friend threw herself a birthday party and bought her own birthday cake, which I found surprising. She said, of course I bought my own cake. Who else was going to do it? I think it’s the same with book promotion. You have to buy your own cake, and make an event of it.

A smoke caged kiss: 3 poems photo

May 7, 2025 | Poetry

A smoke caged kiss: 3 poems

Sami Ridge

I mean,
it’s only love.

The Spiritualist photo

May 6, 2025 |

The Spiritualist

Taylor Lewandowski

My dad described heaven as a sports bar.

May 5, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpt from 'Wedding Crasher, Marin County'

Wilson Koewing

Somebody is going to roofie them, I said. Dave laughed uncertainly. 

May 4, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Language Exchange

Skyler Di Mauro

It was the summer of 2018, and I had just returned home to California from Italy, where my relationship exploded after we had lived together for only four months.

May 2, 2025 | Book Review

Last Poems

Patrick Kosiewicz

He warned me once about being all-in with poetry.

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Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Legs Get Led Astray

Chloe Caldwell

“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”

Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD