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April 30, 2026 | Poetry

Orange St.

Madelyn Musick

And I wonder if we are always standing at the street corner eating each other’s hearts.

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April 30, 2026 | Fiction

Maria Lompar

Mikra Namani

Countless times she was quoted for her famous remark that “monogamy is a prison that free people voluntarily check themselves in for the duration of their lives.” And “can anything be more depressing and boring in life than fucking the same person over and over again, for decades?” 

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April 29, 2026 | Poetry

Four Poems

Tim Frank

In essence, there’s only one advert that can placate the masses. It’s by the surfers, slicing through the whitecaps like rotten pomegranates. It’s a thirty second trance, with a Magritte bowler hat, floating over roadkill.

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April 28, 2026 | Fiction

Alysa Liu Diary

Ulyses Razo

i would certainly suck the islamic terrorists' cocks to save alysa li

 

April 27, 2026 | Fiction

Dead Fish, New Fish

J S Khan

The club isn’t so different than Plato’s cave, she thought one night after getting home from work, and while staring for a long time into her aquarium admiring its latest tenants.

April 26, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Shabu Shabu

Greta Kaluževičiūtė

With a spoon, I am turning you away.

April 25, 2026 | Poetry

Jurassic Park

Talia Vyadro

if i tally it
every time
my tongue finds cherry

do you still
pull your thumb down my lip
sweet surrender

in the other city
the social concepts that killed me here
stay peripheral 

 

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