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April 23, 2026 | Poetry

I Regret Inventing The Cruelest Month 

Peter Vack

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April 22, 2026 | Fiction

The Fetishist

Jennifer Ostopovich

She decides that maybe being an object of consumption isn’t so bad. She even begins to enjoy the attention. Becomes aroused by the men’s overt enthusiasm for her. She is an edible woman, dolce, delectable; something to be devoured.

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April 22, 2026 | Sports

THE PERCEPTION OF VALUE: HARTBEATS AND CANDLELIGHT

Emanuel Brown

In the old gym, value revealed itself in nontraditional ways.

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April 21, 2026 | Fiction

Girls on Film

Alyx Zella

Spit flew from the man's mouth when he spoke, if he spoke.

April 20, 2026 | Nonfiction

Dottie After Dark

Jillian Luft

I’m in the habit of befriending slightly older women. Maternal figures leading bohemian lives within suburban parameters. Seekers abandoned in childhood by dead(beat) moms. Motherless daughters can sniff out other motherless daughters. We wear our stale deprivation like a discontinued perfume.

 

April 19, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Pink, Elephant

Kate Xu

There was a guy called PixelMoth13 on a late-night forum saying, “Love is a wound that repeatedly tears and stitches itself back together.” I clicked like.

April 17, 2026 | Poetry

Six Poems

Cash Compson

She lives in Brooklyn, so I go to Brooklyn.

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