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September 30, 2025 | Poetry

Three poems

Ivan Genc

In my earliest memories, I am building tall towers out of indigo blue picture books

September 29, 2025 | Interview

An Interview With Austyn Wohlers & An Excerpt From Her New Novel 'Hothouse Bloom'

David DuFour

I think art is interesting to write about because it’s bound in a certain idealism but scenes can get competitive and toxic.

September 28, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Touch Me

Martin Brodsky

“If you desire something,” she said, “ask for it with honesty and clear communication. Then accept the answer you receive, whatever it may be.”

September 26, 2025 | Freestyle

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September 26, 2025 | Fiction

Folk Matters

Matthew Denton-Edmundson

The ladybug nymphs were hatching in the hoop house.

September 25, 2025 | Fiction

In Defense of Ostriches

Su Mielke

Otters float in pools of blood, swans tangle in rivers of entrails. Heads of leopards wear fringed shawls, their fangs piercing shallow trenches.

September 24, 2025 | Poetry

Lay My Pants In Our Empty Bed and Hump Them, Just a Little

Alex Rost

Because cigarettes are one thing, 
but my baby won’t have me smelling of shame.

September 24, 2025 | Fiction

Not a Malcolm Rimmel Story 

Sam Berman

He told me he knew someone on death row. That dreamcatchers weaken over time. He said Oktoberfest was the Promised Land.

September 23, 2025 | Fiction

The Virginity Experiment

Cameron Edrich

Before the third time I lost my virginity, I recorded myself eating an orange with nothing but my mouth.

September 22, 2025 | Fiction

Muscle Memory

Annabelle S. Baird

The wanting requires an immense amount of theater.

September 21, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Very Colorado

Elizabeth Autrey

We landed on Court TV but didn’t watch it. We talked for five hours.

September 19, 2025 | Nonfiction

Liquid Burden

Yan Benink

We cracked the Nyquil bottle’s safety seals and interlaced our arms like two pirate bridesmaids as we counted down our chugging

September 18, 2025 | Fiction

What Becomes A Gentile’s Dream

Kevin Barnes

I’ve never told anyone this story before because it is a little embarrassing. Plus legally I’m not really supposed to talk about it but…here we go. 

I had my first sexual experience when I was

September 18, 2025 | Poetry

3 For Hobart

Hugh Blanton

I did not raise my glass in toast to the passing of Gene Hackman.

September 17, 2025 | Fiction

True America

Samson Malmoli

There is inherent loneliness in the mountains.

September 16, 2025 | Fiction

Born to Die

Karina K.

Catholic guilt burned a hole in my palm and hidden in a bag, inside another bag, I lowered it into a dumpster like burying evidence of dead nuns. 

September 15, 2025 | Fiction

The Straggler

Christina Hoffman

I felt his absence slowly growing and absorbing me like a black hole. 

September 14, 2025 | Nonfiction

On "American Beauty" & Choosing to be Childfree

Belinda Cai

The freedom is almost overwhelming.

September 12, 2025 | Nonfiction

Heat Lightning, and the Stupidity of Deer

Mary Buchanan

You were compiling something and the itch for alcohol had blocked all business until you’d gotten up, checked the stove, and left.

September 11, 2025 | Fiction

Infestation and Delirium

Kelsey Kirk

Other people when they have a sore throat and can't sleep: "I have a sore throat and can't sleep."

Me when I have a sore throat and can't sleep:

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It’s been 3:20 in the morning for ages. I

September 10, 2025 | Sports

THE THIRD PIG’S AMERICAN DREAM

Kenton K. Yee

Gangpile on my belly.

September 9, 2025 | Nonfiction

Love, Death & Mormonism in New Orleans

Eric W. Phillips

Telling my wife was hard. Telling my best friend was going to be hard. Telling my family was going to be hard. But leaving was right. And I was raised to do hard things that were right.

September 8, 2025 | Nonfiction

yard house

Maddie Ramsell

You are only who you are to him. Waitresses treat you weird and ask questions..

September 5, 2025 | Poetry

Brain fog

Naa Asheley Afua Adowaa Ashitey

I don’t fully recall when I realized that the smoke detector was going off

September 4, 2025 | Fiction

Do People Not Talk About Their Dreams Anymore?

Claire W. Zhang

You didn’t want to manipulate me like you did the others. Should I feel bad for the others? 

September 3, 2025 | Poetry

Headaches

Damon Hubbs

Other times it’s about motels in Nebraska or 
gum ball machines or a close-up of a woman’s 
face.

September 2, 2025 | Poetry Comics

Spectacular Spiritual Game

Uzodinma Okehi

But reach for it . . .