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April 26, 2024 | Nonfiction

Wigs

Mona Kirschner

 

Long before I wore wigs to punish the men who had punished me, I wore them to channel Selma Blair. I was thirteen, my flat chest leaned over the bathroom sink. We were both brunettes, but that’s

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April 25, 2024 | Poetry

Two Drinks in at the Oyster Bar

Hayden Church

“Have you tried hookers?
Church? God? Your dead
mother? Pills? Coke? Crack?”

UNDER A VEHEMENT SKY: A REVIEW OF SEAN KILPATRICK’S ‘TANTRUMS’ photo

April 25, 2024 | Book Review

UNDER A VEHEMENT SKY: A REVIEW OF SEAN KILPATRICK’S ‘TANTRUMS’

David Kuhnlein

To a degree rarely rivaled, Sean Kilpatrick lives for words. Tantrums is a testament to the last twenty years of his life, and includes absolutely batshit scripts, joyfully brutal fiction, and

The Streak photo

April 24, 2024 | Nonfiction

The Streak

Jen Murphy Parker

He spiked a 104 fever and just as I called his neurologist to ask if we should head to the ER, my son seized for the first time in over 157 million seconds.

April 23, 2024 | Fiction

RETCON

ARX-Han

Today you are thinking about that time when you were thirteen years old.

Whenever it comes back, it’s important to remember that nothing truly bad ever happens to you. Indeed, this simple strategy

April 22, 2024 | Book Review

A Book As An Epiphany: A Review Of Nicolette Polek's 'Bitter Water Opera'

Danielle Chelosky

Bitter Water Opera is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.

April 22, 2024 | Fiction

About Endlessness

Jonah Primiano

The man that killed the world is being lauded as the better of the billionaires because he launched a cloned app that bans you if you aren’t positive. It’s like if you were stuck underneath a boulder

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