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November 3, 2015 |

The Green Inferno & Knock Knock / Wolf’s Hole at Spectacle Theater

Sean Kilpatrick

I’m a stockpiling cakemix of a man trapped in the well Tarantino dug for me around age eleven. 

November 3, 2015 | Poetry

When People Say 'Fun Fact' I Interrupt And Say 'You're Never Going To Own A House'

Oliver Mol

at work last night a group of brisbane boys came to sydney

they hired our function room to celebrate their friend's bucks night

they had been at the races all day betting on horses and

October 31, 2015 |

The GwalaCost // Ep. 2

Jordan Castro

Jordan Castro reviews rapper Travis Scott's debut studio album Rodeo.

October 30, 2015 | Nonfiction

The Fragile Heroine

Shawn Binder

I’ve thought a lot about what it is that draws me into slasher films as a gay man. Maybe I am drawn to them because I read about so many queer people being victimized; in a way I am turning to them for survival tips.

October 30, 2015 |

Reasons Why Ladies Prefer Chuck Norris to Steven Seagall

Andy Rogers

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 30, 2015 |

What Bangkok Feels Like to a Recovering Sex Addict

Erica Garza

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 29, 2015 |

Mud Hustler

KT Pinker

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 29, 2015 |

2 Poems

Alexis Rhone Fancher

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 28, 2015 |

Everything

Kevin Maloney

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 28, 2015 |

Touch Me (an excerpt)

Apollonia Fox

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 27, 2015 | Nonfiction

Jonathan Franzen's Purity: Driving Mister Franzen

Sean Kilpatrick

Over the course of being mounted by this tome, I took up a pipe, drank scotch from an airplane toilet, consigned to rubbing myself down with strange bleaches, minced any sense of diet intentionally diabetic by an assortment of binge ate junk...

October 27, 2015 | Nonfiction

2002: An Internet Odyssey

Fiona Helmsley

I spent a considerable amount of my time online drooling on myself, arguing with the Courtney Love haters who camped out on her website, and searching for low- effort ways to get off the pills. None existed.

October 27, 2015 |

Foul Balls

David Ezekiel Kruse

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 26, 2015 |

“p” is for pussy. that’s good enough for me.

Calvero

We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this

October 26, 2015 |

The Hunter at the End of the Day

Claire Polders

It wasn’t my intention when I set out this afternoon to penetrate these woods, but I am here again, tracking a deer, a tanned phantom slipping in and out of the shoots of fern. 

October 23, 2015 | Interview

Questions for Rachel B. Glaser

Sabra Embury

I've respected Rachel B. Glaser's sense of mischief for years. When I heard she'd written a novel, Paulina & Fran (2015), I was excited to see it. What the heck could it be? I thought. Was it

October 23, 2015 | Poetry

from Big Man

Michael Marberry

So I retired and wrote a book, / called games for NBC. / But I was far too fond of drink / and prone to anarchy, / my own damn anarchy.

October 22, 2015 | Fiction

Winners

Peter Tiernan

I was six, and we were on our way to get a new car.

October 21, 2015 | Fiction

What to Say and How to Say It

Miles Klee

The apartment listing, spare and direct, stood apart from the exclamation points that forested her vision.

October 20, 2015 | Poetry

Five Poems

Jim Warner

The cops catch your friend, bullet belt and pants around his ankles. Chain link fence skins your back. Your ankle grinds like burnt clutch on your girlfriend’s Jeep. She keeps a pair of dog tags in her apron. There is a divot in her hipbone.

October 20, 2015 | Fiction

Shade

Katharine Coldiron

Obviously the place is unsafe . . . 

October 19, 2015 | Fiction

Digger Duane

Dan Leach

I came by to talk. Figured it was time to fix a few things.

October 16, 2015 | Poetry

Two Poems

Kent Shaw

“I have a collection of small animals!” I announced one night at a friend’s party.
This might not have been the best headline for my match.com profile.

October 15, 2015 |

Mistress America

Sean Kilpatrick

...darling Jennifer Jason Leigh. An actress who knows pain and ain’t fucking around. I miss her for his art. Margot at the Wedding is devastating. It is pursed-lips mean. You can’t measure its parsimony on heart. 

October 15, 2015 | Poetry

Two Poems

Jeremiah Moriarty

9. pearls for the gentry
10. marriage material
11. salvaged material
13. some burning islands

October 14, 2015 | Fiction

Swaingrove

Adam McOmber

Here, in the green glass light of the parlor, Swaingrove cultivates its memories.

October 13, 2015 | Interview

Interview with Lincoln Michel

Jessica Thompson

I just finished reading Upright Beasts. I adored it. Thank you for writing the stories and putting them together in a collection. First, I'd like to talk about surveillance, a theme that is heavy

October 13, 2015 | Poetry

4 Poems

Dominic Gualco

he whispered Fuck this shit, and I asked him what he meant.
All he said was I have to go and put me on hold. Now all I am sure of
is Whitney Houston in my ear.

October 12, 2015 |

thought experiments

Lucy Tiven

in the movies the alcoholic always swims alone in the dark

I am not saying the clarity is a hoax, just that it is a bit expensive 

October 12, 2015 | Poetry

3 Poems

Laura Theobald

how do you know how to make a
difference in my life? I’m so happy.
I’m at a news release from prison in
my head.