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May 20, 2026 | Fiction

This Place, for Magic

Eric Boyd

It is warm in the theatre. The chair is comfortable. The trailers ended and most of the films looked good. A Coca Cola ad begins playing, which is the second to last thing they show before the movie.

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Early August photo

May 19, 2026 | Poetry

Early August

Destin Shimer

She walks around like a colt in a kitchen I don’t know, bluish crescent bruise on her calf flashing every couple of turns at me.

vanishing like time and money: 2 poems photo

May 18, 2026 | Poetry

vanishing like time and money: 2 poems

Kristopher Hall

I would take you as you are and were
over all this dead air.

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May 17, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Uncle Fingers

Ashley Yang-Thompson

I met the man who would become my Uncle through an insane-clown-posse-adjacent dishwasher coworker who wanted us to star in his uncomfortably misogynistic Instagram horror movie.

I had just moved

May 15, 2026 |

Undertow

David LeBrun

When the sun went down, I saw the man on the sidewalk. He had fallen onto his suitcase with a shopping bag at his feet. The light turned green. A car honked behind me. I drove ahead, but a pedestrian

May 14, 2026 | Fiction

Salt

Elliot Greiner

I wanted him to understand my fascination with small creatures.

May 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

Are You There Jane? It’s Me, Femcel: My Journey to Hiring a Male Escort

Madison Murray

His dismissal to reduce me to my womanhood and paycheck fucked me.

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