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December 31, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, New Years Edition

Emma Burger

There she was, deep in a Lexapro/cocaine induced blackout.

December 30, 2024 | Fiction

I Wanted Violence

Jean Marie

The truth is i wanted to owe. 

but i couldn't say that, that kind of available, that i wanted a knife at my throat demanding all my money, in the bag now;

December 29, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Fred Wilkes

May Robbins

I sit in my flat and stare at my phone and try to weigh up the risks of calling, weigh up my own exhaustion with life

December 27, 2024 | Fiction

Ocean View

Steven Volynets

   A woman's shriek broke from the dining area, something in English trailing off into Italian.
            Keekah laughed heartily, "the mafia wife is calling."

December 26, 2024 | Fiction

Weird Fishes

Andrew P. Heath

I was informed that it was going to be some kind of horror and pornography mash-up. Lisa promised a murder.

December 24, 2024 | Fiction

excerpt from Where When It Rains

John F Duffy 

I held out my fist, “Midwest love.”

She touched her knuckles to mine.

December 23, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

an example of a letter you could draft to LUIGI MANGIONE

Leya Ivanov

In Materialist MEDICINE in Literature with G you’re talking about the construction of the actual institution of SICKNESS. Like, if you have to take PILLS every day are you really CURED?

December 23, 2024 | Poetry

3 Cloud Poems

Madelyn Grace

I intimidate men

With my intensity

 

Please don’t be scared of me

December 22, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Neptune Unbound

Sona Lea Dombourian

 

I most certainly am not acting out, I inform Mom via ESP, as she silently bids me to exercise her extolled virtue of impulse control. Across from us at the dinner table looms a leering lech

December 20, 2024 | Fiction

FLUSH

Thora Dahlke

Like everyone born after 1991, I hate my job.

December 20, 2024 | Poetry

2 Poems

wrath of persephone

remember when i ruined dinner by taking a bone saw to my sternum?

December 19, 2024 | Nonfiction

MAN STRUCK BY STRAY BULLET, SURVIVES UNSCATHED

Cletus Crow

At first, Grandpa thought a hawk had dropped a rabbit on Dad's head.

December 18, 2024 | Poetry

we remember what it's like to be in love: 3 poems

Tyler Dempsey

i turned out alright

December 18, 2024 | Fiction

DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY

Greg Gerke

Can I sue ABC and Universal Televison for making the Hulk’s transformation overly sexual? I ask a lawyer on Main Street, but he requests that I leave, he has to get a lice treatment.

December 17, 2024 | Poetry

ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT SUICIDE

Sam Cooke

Acne in my nose
Dust on my hands
Oil on my boots 
Sugar in my blood

December 15, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Connecticut

Nora Goodbody

The drive to Connecticut was easy. There were hardly any other cars on the road. It was foggy and grey and the highway seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me. The governor had warned against

December 13, 2024 | Fiction

WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE

Amy DeBellis

“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”

“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”

December 13, 2024 | Poetry

Our last rodeo

Sheridan Wilbur

Passenger princess, king behind the wheel

December 12, 2024 | Fiction

Last Friday Night

Odelia Wu

Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.

December 11, 2024 | Poetry

i wear a suit of salt: 3 poems

john compton

the shape of earth

December 10, 2024 | Poetry

Sorry

Madi Bean

if I could talk to your friends they would dox my hinge prompts. I dream that I'm you and give birth to myself.

December 9, 2024 |

Tumbleweed

Mathieu Cailler

The cowboy hat envisioned itself a stampede of one, a solo herd, a runaway bandit.

December 8, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

The Quiet

Juliet Way-Henthorne

Tell me the child remembers her mother.

December 6, 2024 | Fiction

Distances

Dylan Reber

The smile on her face huge and probably she knew then that she would marry him.

December 5, 2024 | Poetry

The World is Ending and So Are We: 5 poems

Ingrid M. Calderón-Collins

Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.

December 4, 2024 |

True life: Astrology Made Me Mentally Ill

Brittany Swenson

“I can’t handle Taurus moons,” she said one winter afternoon, the two of us bundled with blankets and hats.“It’s definitely the placement of it in her 9th house that’s made her so stubborn and impenetrable.

December 3, 2024 | Interview

Ella Baxter on Woo Woo

Anna Dorn

What author’s (dead or alive) persona is aspirational?
I have never found any authors to be aspirational.

December 2, 2024 | Fiction

The Invisible Official

Tyson Duffy

The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.

December 1, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Should We Still Go to the Store?

Kassie Rene

I am always wearing one of Freddy’s shirts. They are worn in perfectly and covered with jazz players on the front or artists that older people always recognize—artists I don’t really know anything about.

November 29, 2024 | Interview

Submarines Don't Swim: A Conversation with Mathematician Kevin Buzzard

Audrey Zheng

Asking if a computer can do art or science is like asking if a submarine can swim...