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December 24, 2025 | Fiction

Fruity QT & DIY Girl

Madison Murray

DIY Girl turns shit into sugar, men into murderers. DIY Girl is a melted qt-colored crayon

December 23, 2025 | Sports

Big Gym Family: My Year with the Chinese Bodybuilders

Lavinia Liang

“Give me his number,” my aunt said, pulling on her weightlifting gloves.

December 23, 2025 | Poetry

2/24/22

Nick Dove

Snow misted, or so I remember
I was awake, but only partly
Somewhere beyond dreams
In my space between nightmares
Laying in the dark
And lying that things were still light
Outside, the city sat

December 22, 2025 | Interview

Lauren Rothery on Television

Anna Dorn

Art is, to me, a balance between what you say and what you don’t. What you let a stranger’s imagination fill in.

December 22, 2025 | Fiction

Puppies

Sam Franzini

Sensitive men have a way of making problems for themselves. ​​​​​​

December 21, 2025 |

Who Was She?

Mallory Smart 

While decorating for Christmas, my nieces stopped mid–garland untangling to perform their new choreography to the ten-minute “All Too Well.” No one asked for it. They were just doing it. Full-body

December 21, 2025 |

Elizabeth Ellen's "Best Books of 2012"

Elizabeth Ellen

Top Ten of 2012

December 20, 2025 | Fiction

Privacy

Danielle Chelosky

She thought of writing as not just a plea to be seen but a plea to be loved.

December 19, 2025 | Poetry

Even Further From A Working Class Book of Psalms

KG Miles

There are two breeds of love in the world / but I forget what they are.

December 18, 2025 | Poetry

At the End of the World: 3 Poems

Dario Cvencek

standing around in my underwear
in the kitchen Christmas Eve

December 17, 2025 | Nonfiction

Love is White Noise

Aarti Adv

Last week I arrived in Montreal with no particular address in mind.

It was August 26th and my lease started September 1st. A more intelligent being would point out that there may be a problem with

December 17, 2025 | Fiction

Hometown Tour

Lucas Restivo

1:25like, I think they tolerate my family, or like they like us, because we're always at the deli

December 16, 2025 | Fiction

Golden Retriever Boyfriend

Kylie Cheung

I’m steadily acquiring encyclopedic knowledge of the impacts of different medications and antidepressants on men’s dicks.

December 15, 2025 | Poetry

Four Poems

J.L. Moultrie

journal entry #3

the birds ministered from tall pines

        our eyes were

sites of excavation effaced by inner winters

went blind

                  amid the gorge the

December 14, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

A magical thought, a medical prescription, a reflection, and a reply

Lucía del Mar

I. xaxaxaxa
I don’t consider myself esoteric or mystical, but while tidying my desk I found a little square
sticker with just the number 8 on it; I think it fell off the new t-shirt I was

December 12, 2025 | Poetry

All You Have Now

Theodore Heil

gargoyles
and sorries

December 11, 2025 | Poetry

You’ve been cc’ed since the beginning: 2 poems

Chen Chen and Sam Herschel Wein

See, I’m too stupid to write a poem. 
Remember when I said this, that afternoon by the lake 
in our purple & yellow short shorts,

December 10, 2025 | Fiction

Excerpt From 'Lover Girl'

Nicole Sellew

His breath smells like spliff and orange juice and peanut butter. It’s delicious.

December 9, 2025 | Poetry

four poems

Jaime Barash

Levi’s High

My moods as blue 
as these lake hues
Ass still looks hot in this
double denim though,
so fuck yous 

Swatting flies
On my thighs 
in the desert
Amor

 

Bouchon

Steak

December 7, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Lust, Caution

Madeleine Otto

At last, I texted him the truth: I have bipolar disorder. I’m in a hypomanic episode. I’m really not feeling well, I can’t stop crying. I’m sorry, I’m really sorry...

December 5, 2025 | Poetry

Independence Day Dream

Lisa Marie Zapata

Miming a poetic revenge mambo

December 5, 2025 | Fiction

The Hookers Ball

David Polonoff

Revelers in various stages of undress, semi-dress, drag and fetishistic extravagance frolicked, tripping out on the music and their collective naughtiness.

December 4, 2025 | Poetry

Choir Boy: 3 poems

Garrett Mostowski

That’s when she asked me if you were still part of our family.

December 3, 2025 | Poetry

VERONIKA VOSS

 Peppy Ooze

I watched the Fassbinder film.. half in English, half in German..

December 3, 2025 |

Luxembourgs

David Nutt

I had no doubt my husband’s depression was the authentic article, just as I had no doubt that he used this depression irresponsibly, as leverage, a venal tactic, to flatter himself and defuse criticism and basically get every last fucking thing he wanted.

December 2, 2025 | Nonfiction

meditation in the age of clash royale

erin suh

i am the leader, the captain, the general of my troops, and yet it doesn’t matter much to me whether i win or lose.

December 1, 2025 | Nonfiction

Houellebecq

Danielle Chelosky

She underlined the quote, “Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.”

December 1, 2025 | Fiction

Six Short Pieces

Jamie Baxendine

It’s impressive, I thought, to meet a person like this, but then if you make an effort to face the world then this is just the kind of thing that happens to you. I wondered if my clever friend was thinking the same.