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February 21, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

Bradley King

Sun on the creases of someone I love, shadows cut / our funny surface.

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February 20, 2025 | Nonfiction

Two stories about sex

Irina Varina

The 19th century word for “penis,” in one very well-written red-light district instruction manual for a battalion stationed in Moscow, is “instrument of physiological longing.”

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February 19, 2025 | Fiction

Cowards

Jacob Seferian

Max excused himself to the restroom where he sat on the toilet, pants on to Google “how to break up with someone.”

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February 18, 2025 | Nonfiction

Minority Report

Sachin Benny

There is a good case to be made that I am seeking amnesty in the United States because of the amount of paperwork required to simply exist in India

February 17, 2025 | Sports

Golfing with Bruce

Colin Gee

Bruce took one golf lesson at the local country club and rushed home to teach us what he knew: line your toes up in the direction you want to shoot, do not step as you swing like you do in baseball,

February 16, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Obsolete Taco Bell

Katie Higinbotham

I stare into the drive-thru order box, the cars behind me now three deep.

Decision fatigue. That’s what my therapist calls it. Decision fatigue must be what renders me silent in the Taco Bell

February 14, 2025 | Interview

The IMPRACTICAL WONDERFULNESS of ART: Elizabeth Ellen interviews Christopher Zeischegg

Elizabeth Ellen

My point here is that I no longer want my art practice to have a direct and negative impact on my personal relationships.

Recent Books

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