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March 30, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Notes on Our Ghost: or, Strangers of All Distances

Aaron Tomey

While trying to sleep, I abandon the sex fantasies and imagine the feeling of being held by another. They’re soft and accepting and faceless, one of the pillow-folk from the Ringling Museum.

March 23, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Rare Glimpse of the Love Life of a Reader of Great Literature

Benjamin George Coles

'It's a Catch-22 situation,' she said contentedly.

And I thought, 'Fuck this shit into tiny, tiny pieces.'

March 16, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Sojourn, So Joy!

Gulen Celik

The winding roads were scattered with sneakily merging lanes and work-ahead signs. This would have set my head in a whirl if I weren't driving. We spotted sage, turquoise, and navy blue hues on our

March 9, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

I Blamed Moldavite for My Ex’s Infidelity So You Don’t Have To

Micaela Gerson

fell into two traps—both of which I later found out were common coping mechanisms for those of us heavily affected by COVID isolation: a toxic relationship and belief in astrology

 

March 2, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Horse #10

LuLu Johnson

Then there he was, the cowboy whose name I forget, but remember as tall and lank and dressed in slim dark jeans he’d tucked into his boots unembarrassed. Having grown up in Texas, I understood everything about him in an instant on a level the British girl never could.

February 14, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

How to Tell the Size of a Man's Penis via His Texting Style: A Helpful Guide for Valentine's Day

Tracy Dubin

When you texted him something passive aggressive because he didn't answer your text in a timely manner, did he ignore you harder? Small dick energy (SDE).

February 9, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

How the algorithm detects a broken heart

Jun Chou

1.   [User] searches for [potential ex]’s profile.

2.    [User] views [potential ex]’s profile.

3.    [User] unfollows [potential ex]. 

4.    [User] views [8 photos] on [potential ex]’s

February 2, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Blame It on November

Chloe Wheeler

Why do I miss us at our worst?

January 26, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

LETTER TO THE BAD FEMINIST WITH WHOM I SHARED APARTMENT 5A

Laura Sweeney

We really hit our stride in Gender Justice class when the Women’s Studies department asked me to teach and I invited you to join, thinking a co-ed experience would best serve our students.

January 19, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Acting French

Katie Haley

I started talking like a retired showgirl in a ruined by cigarettes raspy voice and asking my mom things like ‘what good is Tom without some of Dick and Harry on the side?’

January 12, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

The Silent T

Lynn O'Leary

His friends document their lives incessantly. Shots of grand scenery from lookout points. Screenshots of their heart rates and macros.

December 31, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, New Years Edition

Emma Burger

There she was, deep in a Lexapro/cocaine induced blackout.

December 23, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

an example of a letter you could draft to LUIGI MANGIONE

Leya Ivanov

In Materialist MEDICINE in Literature with G you’re talking about the construction of the actual institution of SICKNESS. Like, if you have to take PILLS every day are you really CURED?

December 22, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Neptune Unbound

Sona Lea Dombourian

 

I most certainly am not acting out, I inform Mom via ESP, as she silently bids me to exercise her extolled virtue of impulse control. Across from us at the dinner table looms a leering lech

December 15, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Connecticut

Nora Goodbody

The drive to Connecticut was easy. There were hardly any other cars on the road. It was foggy and grey and the highway seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me. The governor had warned against

December 8, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

The Quiet

Juliet Way-Henthorne

Tell me the child remembers her mother.

November 24, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Thumbs Up

Ben Kissam

“If you want, we can try to unlock the phone using your dad’s thumb.”

"Do it," I heard myself say.

November 17, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Paper Doll

Hailey Danielle

I ignored it when he admitted he had cheated on all of his girlfriends, and I ignored it when he became quickly angry over something small. I ignored the red flags

November 10, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

We Did It When You Bled

Selen Ozturk

Mostly we ordered in pizza and put on slow music that looped and stayed on your rug until our pleasures panged together.

November 3, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Canada's only free ferry

Katia Lo Innes

My sister once said that I was uninteresting because I lacked an original wound.

October 27, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

A Modern Education

Sandra Jensen

I should have asked John why he was so unhappy. I should have done more than write that stupid note that was all about me and nothing about him.

October 6, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

On Live

Ryan Petersen

I pushed open the door and he was the only guy inside, about to unzip at the far urinal.

September 22, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

A Shitty Night

Anonymous

I had come out just a year or two prior, and anal sex was new. Nobody taught me anything.

September 15, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Number 10 for Her

Adam Berlin

I taste cigarette in her mouth.

September 8, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Shared Google Doc

Benjamin George Coles

We had a shared Google Doc titled ‘Ground rules for this relationship’.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Legs Get Led Astray

Chloe Caldwell

“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”

Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD