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July 29, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpt From 'Fresh, Green Life'

Sebastian Castillo

Even my skin appeared more limpid than it did when I was in my twenties, when I was always on some badly cut party drug, chain-smoking yellow American Spirits, and shoving late-night, grease-dripping food into my mouth.

July 28, 2025 | Nonfiction

At the Intersection of Montrose and Melrose

Aiden “A.J.” Brown

Cragged rock reaches skyward, gaps in the green either burn scars or metamorphic bands. 

July 27, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

The Weight of It

Alyssa Harris

We finish dinner and the waiter comes with shots of limoncello for the table.

July 25, 2025 | Fiction

rateyourboyfriend.com

Brittany Deitch

When I get home, I buy the rateyourboyfriend.com domain name for the $900 upfront fee

July 24, 2025 | Fiction

Practice Practice Practice

Tim Hardy

Darren had dropped out of art school after just six weeks, but he still insisted on referring to everything as his “practice”. Right now his practice involved sending fan letters to alt-lit

July 23, 2025 | Interview

Chuck Palahniuk, Autofiction and Growing Up Girl: Elizabeth Ellen Interviews Shannon Waite

Elizabeth Ellen

and so the wild, for me, is the trauma of loss

July 23, 2025 | Interview

The Dead are Still Our Community: Adele Elise Williams interviews Anthony Thomas Lombardi

Adele Elise Williams

Poet, activist, and educator Anthony Thomas Lombardi absolutely slays the page in his debut collection murmurations from YesYes books. It is a collection steeped in survival and song—with the iconic Amy Winehouse at its center, the patron saint of the collection, Lombardi revels in variations of doomed beauty, over and over, until there is nothing left but sacred stain.

July 22, 2025 | The Cost of Living: Curated by Julia Laxer

Two Poems

Sascha Cohen

What’s the difference between a dead hooker and a Corvette?

July 22, 2025 | Poetry

Human-Shaped People

Sam Cooke

Loneliness feels good

July 21, 2025 | Fiction

The Women (excerpts)

Shannon Waite

One of the men I’ve dated has a wooden cross erected in his front yard, and another guy drives a minivan.

July 21, 2025 | Poetry

from A Working Class Book of Psalms

KG Miles

The first shall be last and the last shall be first, Frank said / that’s from episode 42 / 
of the telly series Kung Fu, /  ‘This Valley Has Terror’

July 20, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Fucked up modern love sonnets

Matt Traverse

64

What violence is there in giving someone a name, carving out Ida's real name

of these fourteen strips, lacing up the endless observations each day

in the deformed images of words that tell

July 18, 2025 | Fiction

Dust

Katie Haley

Three hits and down I went. Into the floor. Puddled and leaking through the downstairs neighbor’s ceiling.

July 17, 2025 | Fiction

A Pile of Clothes

Greg Gerke

I feel too sorry, I’m too tired, and though I desperately want to change my life, I’m not in a position to, which is to say I’ve taken up the position of defending my nondefendable position. Position underneath position.

July 16, 2025 | Poetry Comics

Spectacular Spiritual Game

Uzodinma Okehi

Flung like emotions, tilting to night . . .

July 15, 2025 | Poetry

Fucking nothing

Katie Frank

Sex is the opposite of being a novelist, and I would rather live between them.

July 14, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Nick Courtright

Being an artist is just another phase, / like a kid who eats the glue sticks

July 13, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

What I Learned About Love at an Orgy

Loren Kleinman

“We come here once a month,” the woman added. “To spice things up.”

July 11, 2025 | Poetry

In My Baddie Era

Mary St. Jean

Maybe next era I’ll get to experience love.

July 10, 2025 | Fiction

Painted Blue

Kitty Saint-Rémy

The air felt so heavy that it would suffocate all language.

July 9, 2025 | Poetry

3 Poems

Jey Ley

Stripper show / Hostess bar / Karaoke club

July 8, 2025 | Fiction

The Secret Admirer of Virginia Woolf

Helena Haitian Jiang

‘Eaten.’ He rectifies, his tongue flips out and recoils in saurian swiftness.

July 8, 2025 | Interview

Hattie Williams on Bitter Sweet

Anna Dorn

Fully, religiously, rigorously outline, and enjoy the surprises along the way.

July 7, 2025 |

Two Poems

Kassidy Curry

Pull your elastic around your wrist / and laugh like a grown woman.

July 6, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Spring Break

G Perata

I don’t want anything serious. But come to raves with me. Take drugs with me!

July 4, 2025 | Fiction

Read Sheet [DWJTM]

Ben Jahn

And by:

Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram account (@shortflightlongdrive). Come for the cougar stalking the line between avant-tasteful and not not ironic literary hot mom, stay for zooming in on the books in the background. Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram. I’m liking it for the captions.

July 3, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

Philip Traylen

But there’s no cup, no / kitchen. Just one mouldy / statue, dreaming of television.

July 3, 2025 | Fiction

Sham Life

Leo Lasdun

My surroundings, though I’d moved through them prolifically as a child, seemed then like an opaque screen placed there to conceal something from me

July 2, 2025 | Poetry

Two Poems

Elly Katz

Torn textbooks at Widener Library or seeping 
Inkwells those Cajal axons 

July 1, 2025 | Poetry

ALL-AMERICAN JESUS

Jan E. Mehmedović

out in the Everglades, no resurrection
just a rotting boy's corpse