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March 15, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

You're Not a Lesbian, You Just Want to Be One

Liss Hansen

I want you to see me ignoring you.

You're Not a Lesbian, You Just Want to Be One photo
In Like a Lamb photo

March 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

In Like a Lamb

Nathan St Onge

My last few nights at Will’s house were strained but also pleasant. I consciously wanted to love him. And I did, in a way, but I was drifting.

Guardian angel. photo

March 12, 2026 | Poetry

Guardian angel.

Jatin Sharma

The terrains alien, the people / Extra terrestrial / Make sense do not.

On Emma Goldman's Revolution photo

March 11, 2026 | Nonfiction

On Emma Goldman's Revolution

Matti Ben-Lev

Punishments:

—deprivation of recreation

—bread and water diet

—48-hour dungeon stays; no bed, no food, no lights

March 10, 2026 | Poetry

Three Poems

Steve Gergley

My wife and I run around the tables in our moisture-wicking workout clothes for the entire 177-minute runtime of the masterful, twenty-nine-track album.

March 9, 2026 | Nonfiction

How to Get Exiled From Canada (a true story from 2011)

Scott Laudati

This was my chance! I moved to the seat in front of her and we lay across our seats and laughed together like a yin-yang necklace coming back together.

March 8, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Baby Fever

Violet Gordon

or because I’d seen him unwrap the extra large condom and suddenly longed, anxiously and fatuously like a girl wanting her stuffed animal, for my first boyfriend who weighed less than me

Recent Books

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

Who Killed Mabel Frost?

Miss Unity

I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…