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August 8, 2025 | Fiction

Person Under Train

Elizabeth Ellen

The last thing she remembered was Marty getting up to vomit. She considered, momentarily, getting up to help. She was still on her knees, her head turned sideways, in profile, on the couch, her arms dangling at her sides.

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August 7, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Savior Complex

Belinda Cai

I was a woman obsessed, before and after the overdose.

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August 6, 2025 | Interview

Late Capitalism, French Philosophy and Dad Rock: Author Emily May on Some Girls

Carmen Cornue

"We all live in that space of self-doubt, and that’s what makes us real people."

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August 5, 2025 | Fiction

Leaving New Russia

Maxfield Francis Goldman

Liam refuses to speak to me now. Because, for once, I took action. Non-violent-action. Well, a series of actions, actually, the first of which was to invite him out for drinks when he came home for winter break.

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).

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...

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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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! 

Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)

Elizabeth Ellen

"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc."   -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz