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March 20, 2023 | Sports

MARCH MADNESS, 2019: Author as Capitalistic Commodity

Elizabeth Ellen

Obsession is obsession is obsession, obsession is relatable; I am constantly obsessed with things, more accurately, I am constantly becoming obsessed with people.

March 19, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

A Rogue Job

Stephanie Sellars

My fantasy of Lockwood started to deflate like a balloon with a tiny hole.

March 17, 2023 | Fiction

Night Without

Nathan Reinke

this one guy keeps trying to talk about the impoverished state of the arts which among other things is making me desperately want to do the drugs I brought

March 16, 2023 | Fiction

Two Stories

Myles Zavelo

Zack was total destruction, demonic possession.

March 15, 2023 | Fiction

Mother's Cheese

Maeve Barry

A diagram shows a mother with porn-star proportions holding her breast, pinching the nipple, milking herself into the cylinder. Squirt, Shake, Wait, the directions tell me.

March 14, 2023 | Nonfiction

If It Makes You Happy

Laura Dzubay

She feels bad for being taken aback before; she really is a very nice doctor.

March 14, 2023 | Fiction

Delivery

Nick Story

Her robe came open; it was like hugging an ice sculpture swan. I shivered.

March 13, 2023 | Fiction

Für Elske and the landlord, Mr Koen Leeuwens

Arturo Desimone

The attic room in the student town of Ordrecht went for 365, 52 euros monthly, not including the safety-deposit, called borg in Dutch.

“Lucky boy, just too late. Because we have crisis in Holland,

March 13, 2023 | Fiction

Playground

Andrew Hahn

In the mornings, the woman sees her husband off to work in her night dress, sometimes with curlers in her hair. After he leaves, she always lights a cigarette and stands with the glass-paned storm door cracked open. I can tell the inside of their house smells like knock-off Estée Lauder and menthol smoke.

March 12, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Anatomical Love

Gabriella Giambanco

In the anatomy lab, we are peeing into cups to check for any abnormalities within the urine

March 10, 2023 | Trip Reports

Chocolate Shrooms

Giovanni

I was outside of time. Teensy amoebic televisions snowed in my eyes. My throat felt like burnt hair.

March 9, 2023 | Poetry

4 poems

Laine Derr

I fucked his heart, ruined the fitted sheets,
flamingos left erect in a pool of afternoons

March 8, 2023 | Fiction

Beefy Appetizer

Ila Kumar

My professor is French. You can tell by her voice, and because she just told us that she and her husband met through adultery, as if it was an app on your phone.

March 7, 2023 | Fiction

Emily

Cash Compson

Emily was mine first.

March 7, 2023 | Poetry

4 Poems

gg roland

other byproducts are produced
sticky sweat, the stink of loneliness

March 6, 2023 | Fiction

The After Party

Ruby Sutton

Sarah has just been promoted at the publishing house, and I realize she thinks she is doing her job at this party

March 6, 2023 | Fiction

Four Ways to Handle Adrian's Relapse

Kate Wisel

Smile in heavy make-up, feeling like a pill is stuck in your throat.

March 5, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Possession

Sára Bányai

/pəˈzeʃ.ən/

 

One morning I woke up with my right scapula in my mouth. You would think that is physically impossible, but in the case of demonic possessions it is actually more normal than not.

March 5, 2023 | Fiction

SOLO PLAYER LOB

Peppy Ooze

A snag with Monday is I have to neck all three of my Subtext in one go. Each under the tongue. The man who administers, Sven, can’t be arsed to say why but he’s a pure archcretin.

March 3, 2023 | Book Review

Lovely Pamela: A Review of Love, Pamela: A Memoir of Prose, Poetry and Truth

Barrie Miskin

There’s an impulse to reduce the Tommy and Pam love story to easy pop-psychology terms: they had a trauma bond, he had a Madonna/Whore complex after she became a mother.

March 3, 2023 | Trip Reports

Pure and Consuming Terror

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We drank the acid. I immediately felt fucked.

March 2, 2023 |

TOILET CONVERSATIONS: PT. 2 W/ JEZEBEL

Miles Marie

If, for instance, Jezebel had to use the men’s room for some reason, I would rather pee on myself.

March 2, 2023 | Fiction

Two Stories

David Kuhnlein

I imagined finding him hanged beneath the creak of a taut rope as often as I didnt.

March 1, 2023 | Fiction

IN RELATIONSHIP

Greg Gerke

That’s why we are “in relationship,” to deliberately alienate each other’s unhappiness—to build an incredible shrine to unhappiness that would be seen for miles in a flatland, if such a shrine could be visible.

March 1, 2023 | Poetry

Two Poems

Sama Ghaffari

But there's no blood
It's all gone, I'm dry

February 28, 2023 | Fiction

Mr. Binky's Adult Superstore

Jazz Boothby

I spent the next couple hours grooming myself and getting drunk. I was sick all the time back then.

February 28, 2023 | Poetry

Hit something

Hayden Church

Do you ever get mad
and want to 
hit something?

February 27, 2023 | Poetry

Holiday!

Cecilia Corrigan

a howl of anguish and a bolt from the, a bruise, and yes, even lurid strangulation on the— 

why it’s positively gothic darling, really!

February 26, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Haley

Maya Staples

I tolerated Marcus and Haley because I knew their drill. Marcus would pick me up with drugs coursing through his system

February 24, 2023 | Trip Reports

Third Night on Viibryd Without Eating First

Laughlin Cole

Hallucinated a flaming forest as if lucid dreaming around 9 p.m. Shit myself. Barfed orange slushy chunks.