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May 23, 2025 | Nonfiction

ORANGE SHADOWS IN THE NIGHTTIME, THROUGH MY DIMLY LIT MIND (A Song by The Rising Storm)

Gurkiran Gill

Hoarding is bad and it’s equally bad when all that indie music doesn’t hit the spot anymore

May 22, 2025 | Book Review

Sophie Madeline Dess’s What You Make of Me

GD Dess

I like crazy. I like the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, the deranged Humbert Humbert, the murderous Raskolnikov, the obsessed Heathcliff, the serial killers Patrick Bateman and Tom Ripley, the psychopath

May 21, 2025 | Poetry

There Will Be Blood

Kim Acrylic

Lies are told beneath silvery moons
And far beyond sad boys and girls falling in love.

May 19, 2025 | Fiction

Snowflakes

Amy DeBellis

I wake up the next morning with the sensation that my lips weigh ten pounds and are about to drop off my face. I’m too scared to look in the mirror,

May 18, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

The Woman My Ex’s Wife Used to Fuck

Ashley Molesso

Did I want to fuck her? Or did I want to be her?

It’s the question everyone asks but I’ve never felt it until now.

May 16, 2025 | Poetry

Why I Pulled All the Reds from My Crayola Box

Patrick G. Roland

Before the internet had all the answers,
before Siri, before Alexa,
before TikTok teens with ring lights
explained the universe in under thirty seconds—
I had my dad.

Dad was my Wikipedia.
Dad

May 15, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpts from STEALING MARQUEE MOON

Christopher Kennedy

In those days, it was popular to ask, What would Jesus do? I crucified myself for days.

May 15, 2025 | Fiction

She Wants Her MTV

Mallory Smart

They said it was a record-breaking storm. I wasn’t paying attention. I was trying to find a clean bowl and wondering if the radiator was supposed to make that noise. I didn’t think anyone would be out

May 14, 2025 | Poetry

Playing House

Emily Sperber

Look longingly
out the window. Wait for myself to come home.

May 13, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Olivia Cook

County Holding

In county holding, girls recite the future from memory.

Sleep is an escape. Blankets for those with perfect zeros.

In county holding, the girls, they’re always using the

May 12, 2025 | Nonfiction

Rewriting Sentences

Tara Layne

We shouldn’t have become friends. Everything about our separate lives suggested we wouldn’t meet—me in the comfort of my sunny Los Angeles home, framed by blue skies, and Frank confined by barbed wire

May 11, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

BUT THEN YOU’RE OUT OF ARROWS

Carly Kaste

The hamster was actually a mouse. We were calling a lot of things by the wrong names back then.

May 9, 2025 | Nonfiction

Called Back

Megan Ortiz

Silly’s hands were tangled in his hair. His gaze snapped back to mine. “You didn’t hurt me, Elle. Not at all.”

May 8, 2025 | Interview

Kate Folk on Sky Daddy

Anna Dorn

One time years ago, a friend threw herself a birthday party and bought her own birthday cake, which I found surprising. She said, of course I bought my own cake. Who else was going to do it? I think it’s the same with book promotion. You have to buy your own cake, and make an event of it.

May 7, 2025 | Poetry

A smoke caged kiss: 3 poems

Sami Ridge

I mean,
it’s only love.

May 6, 2025 |

The Spiritualist

Taylor Lewandowski

My dad described heaven as a sports bar.

May 5, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpt from 'Wedding Crasher, Marin County'

Wilson Koewing

Somebody is going to roofie them, I said. Dave laughed uncertainly. 

May 4, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Language Exchange

Skyler Di Mauro

It was the summer of 2018, and I had just returned home to California from Italy, where my relationship exploded after we had lived together for only four months.

May 2, 2025 | Book Review

Last Poems

Patrick Kosiewicz

He warned me once about being all-in with poetry.

May 1, 2025 | Poetry

True Love

Rhea Melina

It doesn’t have to hurt.