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April 26, 2025 | Fiction

The Blade

Derek Andersen

“Are you being held against your will?”

“I think so? There’s kind of an implication.”

“An implication?”

April 25, 2025 | Fiction

Love Spells

Ginger Jones

When you rearrange my insides you leave me for dead.

April 24, 2025 | Poetry

FOURTEEN POEMS

Mike Topp

I think the interview went pretty well, although at one point I remember asking the interviewer to speak slower this time, using simpler words, words with no syllables if possible. 

April 24, 2025 | Poetry

the godhead

ry downey

Please dont forget to play. Can you remember 
the last time you danced?

April 23, 2025 | Nonfiction

The Darkness We Cannot See

Bea Chang

After three flights, two chicken buses, and a strange bout of illness, I arrived in El Nido, a small backpacker nest at the far edge of the Philippines.

April 22, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

Thom Waddill

Wind in the ears like / Water ungathering / In and out of baskets.

April 21, 2025 | Fiction

How to Be Loved

Yasmin Lagarde

When his heart is an ashtray—cigarette butts put out on a surface that will not flinch

April 20, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

It Starts When You Are a Child

Jean Richardson

why does it feel so much harder to see something happen to someone else than have it happen to you?

April 18, 2025 | Fiction

Make Me a Steak?

 Colleen Grablick

When I finally swallow, it feels like an admission of failure.

April 17, 2025 | Poetry

After boys become some kind of man: 3 poems

Simon Wolf

The door is broken, the home is not 
as we begin to compare our splinters 
before our squinting eyes.

April 17, 2025 | Book Review

We Fuck Despite Hell: A Review Of Cletus Crow's 'Jesus Freak'

Conor Hultman

In Crow’s version, Proverbs become advice on how to tell if someone gives good head.

April 16, 2025 | Interview

Marcy Dermansky on Hot Air

Anna Dorn

What author’s (dead or alive) persona is aspirational? 
Maybe Joan Didion, the super thin wrists, the iconic image on a tote bag. I just want to keep on writing books. 

April 15, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Sheridan Wilbur

nature doesn't give a shit about what I want

April 14, 2025 | Fiction

The Decemberists

 Maxfield Francis Goldman

She buys us both mineral waters from the MoMA cafe.

April 13, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Situationship Expert

Sara Byrnes

I’ve been on a lot of dates. I don’t consider myself an expert, but I can tell you how to get asked on a second: be as mysterious as possible, ask as many questions about the person as you can, let

April 11, 2025 | Fiction

Fidele’s Corner

James McGowan

So what if, slightly buzzed, she witnessed jubilant souls who succored maggots with their wounds, or improvised love songs to Señor Suboxone

April 11, 2025 |

Prick Then Kick?

Gadfly

Beckett throws another party

April 10, 2025 | Fiction

Everything Passes

Pranavesh Subramanian

As the day proceeds, we end up chatting. I tell the man with the snowflake tattoo: I thought you were in a biker gang but you’re all just working on Excel. 

April 9, 2025 | Nonfiction

Being Means Too Much

Sasha Vetrov

I was sitting in a coffee shop I used to go to. This was in Bangkok.

April 8, 2025 | Fiction

Like a Rotisserie Chicken from Costco

Jean Marie Hackett

Let’s be clear:

You destroy things.

April 7, 2025 | Interview

Ariel Courage on Bad Nature

Anna Dorn

I think a lot about Annie Ernaux saying that she writes like she's going to die afterward. The principle works for all kinds of writing, not just autofiction—it's an urgency that makes the voice more electric, that drives you to completion, that's more honest because it has no concern for consequences.

April 6, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

An LLM Writes a Breakup Text to your Fuckbuddy

Azaria Brown

Prompt

# Tasks

Write a breakup text.
End relationship as clearly and concisely as possible.
Express disappointment, but be vague.
Make it clear that no further contact is desired or

April 4, 2025 | Fiction

A Letter I Hope You Don’t Write, Son

Garima Chhikara

Do you think I won’t understand because I never finished school?

 

April 3, 2025 | Fiction

Fantasy Football

Arcadia Molinas

Only the best of girls get to play fantasy football and today, that’s me.

April 2, 2025 | Fiction

Perceived

Andy Tran

But she didn’t delete the video. Instead, she posted it on TikTok.

April 1, 2025 | Interview

Vincenzo Latronico on Perfection

Anna Dorn

I guess there is a measure of wish fulfillment in the detail of my description of Anna and Tom’s apartment. Sometimes I ask myself if this makes the arc of the novel a kind of revenge fantasy.