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August 28, 2025 | Fiction

The Misses

Grace Robins-Somerville

The room smelled like beer and sweat and crushed velvet. The air seemed to hum, hot and full of dust particles and guitar feedback. 

August 27, 2025 | Poetry

ROUTE 66

Philomena Marie

They always think I’ll wave to them.

August 27, 2025 | Interview

Language, Infidelity, and Gender Fuckery - Andie Blaine Interviews Arielle Burgdorf

Andie Blaine

Tempestuous is the language we carry in our head, the music of new words and lovers, the cities we dip into on a lost weekend. Jeanne, the eponymous narrator of Arielle Burgdorf’s novel Jeanne,

August 26, 2025 | Interview

Poems, Playlists, and Prizes: A Late Summer Night with Ashley D. Escobar

KRISTINE ESSER SLENTZ

While many struggle to adapt to the largeness and complexity of NYC, Escobar thrived and used it to inform her work.

August 24, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

NEVER DATE A SOBER PERSON

Dayna Troisi

It is the night before I will meet my future ex wife. Neither of the mirrors are skinny.

August 21, 2025 | Poetry Comics

Spectacular Spiritual Game

Uzodinma Okehi

But also, the clock . . .

August 20, 2025 | The Cost of Living: Curated by Julia Laxer

Over the Top: The Dramatic Upsurge of Siena Foster-Soltis

Jack Skelley

I’m talking to Siena Foster-Soltis on a patio overlooking the lights of Los Angeles. The hillside home, in the ultra-luxe enclave of Bel-Air, is an apt location for Siena’s latest play, Over the

August 20, 2025 | Fiction

Breaking Character

Marie López

She wasn’t cruel. She smiled when he refilled her water glass. She asked about his mother. They had sex with the lights on.

August 19, 2025 | Fiction

Semantics, Darling

Liska Jacobs

That sudden clarity pierced through her: the baby’s soft blanket; the Frappuccino sweating in her hand, the grocery list in the diaper bag. All of this could change and when it did, she would cease to exist.

August 18, 2025 | Fiction

A Woman Like Liz, a Man Like Richard, and a Girl Like Me

Kelsey Kirk

Some girls become Liz. Some girls want to be her. Some just want her. A fictional short story about Liz, Richard and an anonymous anti-hero.

August 18, 2025 | The Cost of Living: Curated by Julia Laxer

A Former Maid Reflects

Kate Jayroe

Ten years ago, my work bestie at the job I had and the life I had at the time, Tedrick, rubbed me down in cruelty-free coconut oil. He said, “You’re a beautiful mess.” I shone in holiday light. 

I

August 17, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Santa Clarita

Jaden Power

It was summer heat 
And the breath of living someone else’s life 

August 15, 2025 | Poetry

Excerpt from 'Spur'

Robbie Coburn

The glass always refilling / and fracturing his life

August 14, 2025 | Poetry

The Bay Arena

Nicholas Wilder Forman

I have been waiting to become a better writer so that I can understand them.

August 14, 2025 | Book Review

Harris Lahti: Foreclosure Gothic

Filip Jakab

Known for editing Fence fiction and co-founding Cash 4 Gold Books, Harris Lahti’s debut prose, Foreclosure Gothic presents itself with highs and lows, the underside of the once-coined-and-believed

August 13, 2025 | Fiction

Mood Stabilizer

Peyton Gatewood

(Checking texts over lunch) Jon Jon Jon Jon Jon Jon Jon. That’s how my brain works.

August 12, 2025 | Fiction

New York Taught Me How to Love

Finnegan Schick

I remember listening to you play “Ashokan Farewell” on the violin, your head bowed, the notes clear and sorrowful

August 11, 2025 | Poetry

Tempt

Simone Menard-Irvine

The forecast predicted devastation,
So I scattered sandbags around my house,
Closed the window,
And waited for the deluge.
Fingers gripped my hair and
Yanked me back like a bucking

August 11, 2025 | Book Review

The Power of Panic: A Review of Michael Clune’s ‘Pan’

Danielle Chelosky

If I read Pan before I started taking Lexapro I would’ve cried.

August 10, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

The Great Scalping of 2024: A Love Story in Buzz Cuts

Tara Hashagen

Sisters remain sisters even when one is going through nuclear-grade poisoning and the other is directing a DIY haircut through a phone screen.

August 8, 2025 | Fiction

Person Under Train

Elizabeth Ellen

The last thing she remembered was Marty getting up to vomit. She considered, momentarily, getting up to help. She was still on her knees, her head turned sideways, in profile, on the couch, her arms dangling at her sides.

August 7, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Savior Complex

Belinda Cai

I was a woman obsessed, before and after the overdose.

August 6, 2025 | Interview

Late Capitalism, French Philosophy and Dad Rock: Author Emily May on Some Girls

Carmen Cornue

"We all live in that space of self-doubt, and that’s what makes us real people."

August 5, 2025 | Fiction

Leaving New Russia

Maxfield Francis Goldman

Liam refuses to speak to me now. Because, for once, I took action. Non-violent-action. Well, a series of actions, actually, the first of which was to invite him out for drinks when he came home for winter break.

August 3, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Adiós, Eurydice

Juan René

It still bugs me that I never understood why she’d seen Hadestown eleven times (our first date was her twelfth).

August 1, 2025 | Fiction

The Regular

Lydia Barnes

At this remark, her forehead crinkled, and it was clear that she hadn’t remembered their previous meeting. This should have come as no surprise to Lyle, who had lived forty-three-years of un-memorability. His style of dress unremarkable, his height medium, his face neither handsome nor ugly...