October 13, 2022 | fucked up modern love essays
Letter from the editor
Elizabeth Ellen
I never wanted to run this ship. Frankly, I’d rather spend my time writing.
November 9, 2022 | Nonfiction
Year of the Buffalo by Aaron Burch: a Review
Elizabeth Ellen
Becca, Ernie’s wife, estranged wife most of the novel until finally she is his ex-wife at the end, based on the author’s, based on Aaron’s, ex-wife, Elizabeth Ellen, who is, oddly, metally, writing these words, typing them into a Word doc at nine in the morning
November 9, 2022 | Nonfiction
MY JUNKIE DREAMS NEVER END IN SHOOTING UP
Christian Bodney
I wake up glad to not be strung out.
I wonder how my drug dealers are doing.
October 25, 2022 | Nonfiction
Hierarchy of Fear (most fearful to least fearful*) in the Literary World
Elizabeth Ellen
-Editor at a literary journal attempting to be good, moral ppl (see: 1990s Christian Right)
October 10, 2022 | Poetry
Party Poems
Miss Unity
The other thing Belle did
Was burn three holes in my thigh
With her cigarette
Revenge for the chaos I’d caused
October 9, 2022 | Fiction
A LOW-HANGING TOWEL
Garielle Lutz
He had a little radio, and on the mornings it snowed, he listened over and over to the lists of school closings until he knew them by heart: Kellerville area, Longstead area, Mount Holly area, all the outlying place-names, all the Our Lady of’s. Sometimes there was only a two-hour delay, and he wondered what it must be like, to have the boon of two extra hours like that.
Recent Books
Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)
Elizabeth Ellen
"It captures all the doubts, giddiness, confessional streaks, blabbiness, self-alarms, rationalizations, feigned equipoise, and instantly breakable resolves of a person freshly infatuated and likely in love." -anonymous writer friend
Worsted
Garielle Lutz
“Lutz’s work is a marvel of the possibilities of language. Each of her sentences is an intricately crafted thing, deeply complex yet crystalline in its clarity . . . her command of each and every word remains supreme.”
--Mira Braneck, The Paris Review Daily
Garielle Lutz is the author of The Complete Gary Lutz, among other books.
Her Lesser Work
Elizabeth Ellen
"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."
-Walker Caplan, Literary Hub
"Her Lesser Work is full of power and it takes risks and it's alive and real and it fixes a very sharp eye on the shit humans do to each other and themselves."
-Lindsay Lerman, LitReactor
