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November 21, 2024 | Poetry

self-care

Paige Johnson

Infidelity is fed to us as sexier when it’s female

November 20, 2024 | Fiction

Angelspiritbaby94

Maxine Beiny

All Rachel ever wanted to be was a reality TV star. Rachel didn’t mind which show she ended up on, as long as she became famous and had at least 3 brand deals behind her.

November 19, 2024 | Poetry

POEMS AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT

Cletus Crow

You are so smooth-skinned / I would send your husband / to war to die.

November 18, 2024 | Fiction

The Music Is Beginning

Ella Fox-Martens

Alice scoops the teeth up and puts them back in her mouth, slipping them into the holes they were ripped from. She is not sure where else they would go.

November 18, 2024 | Book Review

Midwest Suffering And Brainrot: A Review Of John Doe's 'Autumn In The Pain House'

Danielle Chelosky

Is John Doe a writer, or just a content machine?

November 17, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Paper Doll

Hailey Danielle

I ignored it when he admitted he had cheated on all of his girlfriends, and I ignored it when he became quickly angry over something small. I ignored the red flags

November 16, 2024 | Interview

LIVING ROOM CRAFT TALKS & DISCOVERY: A CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN BASS

Ellen Bass and Audrey Zheng

I am always talking about the quality of paying attention and the quality of being willing to go into the unknown, being willing to not know. 

November 15, 2024 | Poetry

Self Portrait as Pluto in Aquarius

Isabelle Correa

I have let love demolish me.

November 14, 2024 | Fiction

Twin Tower Memes

Carly Ayres

I thought he’d text back “lolz.” Twin tower memes were funny now.

November 13, 2024 | Poetry

Three poems on our precious context

The Neighbourhood Coward

Destroy something for my sake.

November 12, 2024 | Fiction

Schadenfreude

Andrew Worthington

Okay, you know how I like to go to the bathroom. We’ve talked about it at sessions over and over again.

November 11, 2024 | Poetry

Five Poems

Selena Cotte

writing questions, like

why does he come over in the bad storms

and make excuses not to leave

November 10, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

We Did It When You Bled

Selen Ozturk

Mostly we ordered in pizza and put on slow music that looped and stayed on your rug until our pleasures panged together.

November 8, 2024 | Poetry

Election

Elizabeth Ellen

“I’m just excited that my first time voting in a presidential election was for a woman,” my daughter said

“yeah,” I said

“that’s so exciting,” I said

November 8, 2024 | Poetry

Two Poems

Zachary Bond

On the back of his badge, he had a barcode with which he could change almost anything.

November 7, 2024 | Nonfiction

Sadness

David Luntz

and partly because she went to Yale and married the class president and blasts the socials with pics of their exotic vacations and announcements of their children’s accomplishments

November 7, 2024 | Interview

Literature, Politics, & Audacity: Emailing With Matthew Davis

Elizabeth Handgun

My book is really about loneliness and alienation (like all my favorite books), but politics comes up in it because everyone is obsessed with politics now.

November 6, 2024 | Fiction

Intractable

Josh Rank

The guy stood up straight as if physically smacked. I ran up behind her and pushed my finger against the inside of my sweatshirt and couldn’t think of anything productive to add so I just yelled, “Yeah!” and hiccuped.

November 5, 2024 | Nonfiction

Excerpt From 'Year One'

Marina Raydun

This is what I was waiting for. I all but cry, but I don’t.

November 4, 2024 | Fiction

How Ian Curtis Died

Divya Mehra

He says that’s how all rock stars die.

November 3, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Canada's only free ferry

Katia Lo Innes

My sister once said that I was uninteresting because I lacked an original wound.

November 1, 2024 | Poetry

INCARNADINE

Paul Franz

I said, this, this. Call it what it is.