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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?’

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

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