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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 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 7, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Savior Complex

Belinda Cai

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

July 31, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Double Fisting

Emily Atwood Kendall

The thing about being a lesbian in New York City is that on the third Thursday of any given month you’ll have to stand in a hot Brooklyn bar that is absolutely teeming with gay people. At least four

July 27, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

The Weight of It

Alyssa Harris

We finish dinner and the waiter comes with shots of limoncello for the table.

July 20, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Fucked up modern love sonnets

Matt Traverse

64

What violence is there in giving someone a name, carving out Ida's real name

of these fourteen strips, lacing up the endless observations each day

in the deformed images of words that tell

July 6, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Spring Break

G Perata

I don’t want anything serious. But come to raves with me. Take drugs with me!

June 29, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Wine of the Year

Kate Bresee

I laugh and say, “is that a Rupi Kaur poem?”

June 15, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Are Three Cats Too Many for a Single Man to Own?

Samantha Zielinski

Over coffee, he told me he thought I dumped him last time because we had sex too soon.

June 8, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Umbilical Rights to Sunday Rites

B.J.Y.

Her umbilical right to intimacy makes me wonder if I ever left the womb.

June 1, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Negotiations

Rachel Young

The pain reminds me: I am here. I am real. I matter.​​​​​​​

May 18, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

The Woman My Ex’s Wife Used to Fuck

Ashley Molesso

Did I want to fuck her? Or did I want to be her?

It’s the question everyone asks but I’ve never felt it until now.

May 11, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

BUT THEN YOU’RE OUT OF ARROWS

Carly Kaste

The hamster was actually a mouse. We were calling a lot of things by the wrong names back then.

April 20, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

It Starts When You Are a Child

Jean Richardson

why does it feel so much harder to see something happen to someone else than have it happen to you?

April 6, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

An LLM Writes a Breakup Text to your Fuckbuddy

Azaria Brown

Prompt

# Tasks

Write a breakup text.
End relationship as clearly and concisely as possible.
Express disappointment, but be vague.
Make it clear that no further contact is desired or

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?’

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! 

Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)

Elizabeth Ellen

"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc."   -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz