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May 28, 2026 | Fiction

Dad Micronation

Maximiliano Guzmán

His unbuttoned shirt, his summer breakfast. The gesture of his mouth was the opening of unsaid words.

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Are You There, Jane? It’s Me Femcel: Buying The Boyfriend Experience photo

May 27, 2026 | Nonfiction

Are You There, Jane? It’s Me Femcel: Buying The Boyfriend Experience

Madison Murray

The gigolos texted me back while my mom and I watched Zootopia 2

Four Poems photo

May 27, 2026 | Poetry

Four Poems

Jackie K. White

Fury Psalm 6:

Let there be a God, an earth, seasons weathered through a time
for this, for that, for breathing and for holding one’s breath.

Let there be seasons when the moon has nothing to be

Tonight he only dreams of tulips photo

May 26, 2026 | Poetry

Tonight he only dreams of tulips

Jason Davidson

Lie here with me, if only for a while.

May 25, 2026 | Fiction

Entombed 

James Callan

I was on my morning jog when I saw what I believed to be a young man asleep or dead in the sand.

May 24, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

The Sitarist

Katie Haley

Sitting in his gold Toyota listening to old metal. He turned down The Accused to tell me about his diagnosis.

May 23, 2026 | Nonfiction

Someone Else's Flowers

Tara Layne

“The Upper East Side. For uncreative rich people who don't know the first thing about being happy,” Mom said, and I believed her.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

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