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March 31, 2025 | Fiction

Next Level Unlocked

Mia Risher

Clem wasn’t worried that Joshua would be a catfish.

March 30, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Notes on Our Ghost: or, Strangers of All Distances

Aaron Tomey

While trying to sleep, I abandon the sex fantasies and imagine the feeling of being held by another. They’re soft and accepting and faceless, one of the pillow-folk from the Ringling Museum.

March 28, 2025 | Sports

MARCH MADNESS, 2019: Author as Capitalistic Commodity

Elizabeth Ellen

"There are no actual pages. They are hollow. They are just for show. I think how perfect that is, how much of the literary world is just for show. Hollow. Superficial. More often than not it doesn’t matter the words inside, only the name on the book, the book as an object, the author as object. Author as persona. Author as capitalistic commodity. Minor celebrity. A name to drop at a New York City party."

 

March 28, 2025 | Sports

Unathletic Incident

Alex Avakiantz

Before that glorious year, I was relegated to the “husky” section, which is clothing not for dogs but overweight children.

March 27, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Selen Ozturk

It was bad today.

I stood in Trader Joe’s two hours

March 27, 2025 |

Hustled & Kidnapped in the Armpit of America

Anna Krivolapova discusses voice.

March 26, 2025 | Fiction

Tonight

Waseem Mainuddin

Harry forgot the rest of last night’s monologue, and just saw the crowd laughing. Applause was okay if it was accompanied by laughter, he just didn’t want to ask for claps. But laughs? In this world, people need to laugh.

March 25, 2025 | Book Review

Nell Zink's Sister Europe

Klara Feenstra

But in this Freudian foreshadowing, Toto doesn’t quite realize that he’s far from Catholic school, with its rules and fall-in-line rigidity.

March 25, 2025 | Nonfiction

The Magic Bus

Tyler Dempsey

This story’s about a trip. It’s a strange word. Trip. As a noun, it means a journey or excursion, going somewhere and returning, especially for pleasure, or to stumble or fall. It’s also the word used

March 24, 2025 | Poetry

Incest

Jan E. Mehmedović

written in the season of cattle mutilation

March 23, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Rare Glimpse of the Love Life of a Reader of Great Literature

Benjamin George Coles

'It's a Catch-22 situation,' she said contentedly.

And I thought, 'Fuck this shit into tiny, tiny pieces.'

March 21, 2025 | Poetry

e-girls

anon

each morning i go online & look at pictures of pretty girls in new york city.

March 21, 2025 |

Give Us Our Daily Bread

Gadfly

Cake Zine Volume 6

March 20, 2025 | Fiction

The Bright African Son

Ava Sophia Brown

I extended my time at the Hotel de Paris to fall into the bad habit of making love to the maid. And to recover and regain my strength, as my flu-ish bug was stubborn and I feared being on the road for too long with it.

March 19, 2025 | Fiction

Groan

Joseph Pfister

When they ask you how your massage went, the first thing out of your mouth is a confession.

March 18, 2025 | Poetry

Making Out While the World Collapses

Hayden Church

I feel sexy / as a sheared sheep 

March 17, 2025 | Fiction

Thrashing: elevated spectral entropy of local behavior under conditions of global pseudospectral tightening

Josh Lovins

The idea behind this silencing was that new views might have an easier time taking hold if the old one weren't always barging into the fish schools and stamping on the new view's seeds before the seeds had latched. 

March 17, 2025 | Poetry

A Poem That Isn't a Poem but Rather an Essay About Women Who Love Patrick Bateman

Sofija Popovska

in the mirror the face you see yourself | I’m so fucking good at this | the eye is an aleph and every place is you

March 16, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Sojourn, So Joy!

Gulen Celik

The winding roads were scattered with sneakily merging lanes and work-ahead signs. This would have set my head in a whirl if I weren't driving. We spotted sage, turquoise, and navy blue hues on our

March 14, 2025 | Fiction

Plant Hospital

Elizabeth Ellen

I think HH resented me for making him feel pedestrian, a cliché to himself; the male artist requesting a sort of self-censorship of the female artist on his behalf. (Image is everything and/but he wanted to control his; I had no right to it, to my version of it/him, in his male mind.)

March 14, 2025 |

Une Soirée avec Beckett

Gadfly

A part whore/part homely crowd crowdpleaser 

March 13, 2025 | Fiction

Engineer

Audrey Lee

I wondered if ingenue had any etymological roots to engineer in Russian, which sounds the same as ingenue in English, and also wondered if Mikhail would sleep next to me again if I asked him to.

March 13, 2025 |

Q&A with Wilson Koewing

Lisa Marie Zapata

Delve a little deeper into the mind of author Wilson Koewing

March 12, 2025 | Fiction

In Real Life

Chris Wu

Finally she told him she was feeling the same way, but that she didn’t have the words for it. Just the emoji of the face with only eyes and nothing else.

March 11, 2025 | Fiction

The Friendly Ghost

Chris R. Morgan

The more lucid among them felt an uplift in his presence; as if, as one patient put it, they were passengers on a luxury ocean liner bound for Europe.

March 10, 2025 | Poetry

guys i'm just a poet

Chloe Wheeler

what to do with this boyfriend sized chasm?

March 9, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

I Blamed Moldavite for My Ex’s Infidelity So You Don’t Have To

Micaela Gerson

fell into two traps—both of which I later found out were common coping mechanisms for those of us heavily affected by COVID isolation: a toxic relationship and belief in astrology

 

March 6, 2025 | Fiction

Brothers

Ian Curtis

Victor clenched a fist, ignoring the jab of pain from his broken finger, and raised it to Roy. “Brothers?” Roy glanced at him—his blue eyes, so aloof. So tired.

March 5, 2025 | Fiction

Crass

Troy Anderson

A hyper-masculine man with politics that are probably messy and a bio that says NO FATS NO FEMS but then why does he smile every time he calls me his baby girl? 

March 4, 2025 |

Grounding Exercise

Kelly Erin Gray

Five things you can see, four things you can touch, three you can hear, two smell, and one taste.