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July 29, 2026 | Book Review

Walking Across America with Sean Thor Conroe

Emma Burger

In the years since my own trip, at 23, I’ve grown generally more wary of people. Have developed a much needed cynicism when it comes to random acts of generosity.

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July 29, 2026 | Fiction

RECREATE PATROCLES

James Jacob Hatfield

The nuclear fission that generated heat should not have been survivable after one hour.

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July 28, 2026 | Poetry

Three Poems

Wiliam Taylor Jr.

These days the dead feel / more alive than the living

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July 28, 2026 | Fiction

Burns with Brimstone

Alex Rost

The room is small and empty and unfamiliar. A pool of vomit in the corner. Cigarette butts ground into yellow carpet. What seem to be streaks of blood coat the walls. It looks like it smells like shit, but all he can smell is the piss in his costume.

July 27, 2026 | Fiction

Sexual Harassment

Danielle Chelosky

I was excited at the idea of killing a man, because I thought I really deserved it.

July 27, 2026 | Nonfiction

Paideia

J.L. Moultrie

In winter, a year and a half ago, a patrol car escorted me to a shelter. I had just begun processing the dissolution of a ten-year relationship when I found myself unhoused. After my first night in the shelter, I woke to a text from my ex-girlfriend: you’ll thank me one day.

July 26, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Hurting Myself and Others

Maggie Koons

“Björk.”

“That explains it.”

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub