July 5, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays
I Have Never Been Less Well
Lucy Parks Urbano
The nineteen year olds in the grocery section who tell me I look like Wednesday are yelling into their walkie talkies.
July 4, 2026 | Fiction
Independence Day
Jon Doughboy
A ground spinner in the shape of Saturn which promises its rings are sexier than all the emperor’s concubines combined, than all of your wishes fulfilled. Poppers and fountains. I think my boss’s daughter groomed me. Rich kid calling in the help to get on his knees and pleasure his betters.
July 3, 2026 | Nonfiction
FOUR DROPS UNDER THE TONGUE
Emma Burger
I didn’t want anyone else’s cynicism rubbing off on me and diminishing the essences’ effects. I knew, I had to believe.
July 3, 2026 | Fiction
The Hunter
D.R. Garrett
I asked him to bring me some nachos from the mini mart he worked at. We had rebound sex on my futon.
The Day I Thought I Might Have A Drinking Problem
Katie Haley
Some spit clogged in my hair and snot dripped down to my mouth.
Tedium is a Place: A Review of Makshya Tolbert’s ‘Shade is a place’
Hugh Blanton
Sadness pervades. That's of course nothing unusual, sadness and poetry are bosom buddies.
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
