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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’.

September 1, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Natural Selection

Craig Foltz

8: Perhaps we’ve misheard. Perhaps our facility with language will lead to our downfall. Perhaps the public lauding of our own personas is parasitic and causes continuous displacement.

August 25, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

In the Service of Unknown Gods

Sam Redlark

[The names of certain parties have been changed. Other names were never known and are now lost in time.]

I get maudlin and nostalgic over the Christmas holidays, mostly for a past version of

August 18, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

ALGTR

Bex Peyton

I hook up with a nineteen year old at my big age. Driving over, I tell myself: act doting, let him initiate everything, he’s topping anyways, he has the power, you could pass for being two years

August 11, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Nerds Gummy Clusters in our Hierarchy of Needs

E.F. Flynn

“I used to buy cigarettes here,” I inform him. I give bite-sized details about myself like this.

July 28, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

She Owed Me a Favour, So...

Olive Parker

She kept pulling my hand towards her clit but I was too tired to actually fuck her so I busted onto her milky tits.

July 21, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Men I Have Loved

Susan Segal

He hugged me, kissed the top of my head. “I was wrong,” he said. “Just be grateful I’m not drinking. I can’t do more right now.”

July 14, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

The Writer

Allison Billmeyer

I’m sleeping with another writer who won’t stop talking about his Ex.

July 7, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

TICK-BOMBS AND COCKROACHES

Corey Lof

Corey are you wasting time?

How would I know?

I don’t know.

June 30, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Spreewasser

Gareth Stack

“I’m a fan of being a good rebound”, Alexander says. “It’s really a sweet spot I think. That’s why its so heartbreaking. It’s so tempting. But that kind of level of closeness and independence is very

June 23, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

My mind was an airport

Emily Wilson

By August I ended up having only enough energy to have sex with just the one man.

June 16, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Pendejadas!

Lilia Salammbô Fetini

We spent the summer together in London. We lazed in the Heath.

June 9, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

A Response to My Spouse’s Hecklers

India Choquette

When Tyler and I first got together, we didn’t know that they were trans. But now we do, and so does the rest of the world. And the rest of the world has mixed feelings about it. “I kinda felt like I

May 26, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Death, Ghosts, and Dissection

Teagan Christy Lamb

Dead Driving: october 29, 2023, 10:31pm

there is a feeling i recall having, that i am having now as i remember it, in my stomach every time i feared death. felt close to it. was put in its

May 12, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Noble sauvage

Leya Ivanov

U were the only Turk i knew, and also the only Turk my parents liked. they never let me walk around the fountains at night even though it’s the only place in Sofia with streetlights after two a.m. b/c

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

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