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February 21, 2025 | Nonfiction

Notes on Leaving

J.L. Moultrie

The Bible illustrates that considering God’s every word is not an endeavor steeped in

safety.

February 20, 2025 | Nonfiction

Two stories about sex

Irina Varina

The 19th century word for “penis,” in one very well-written red-light district instruction manual for a battalion stationed in Moscow, is “instrument of physiological longing.”

February 18, 2025 | Nonfiction

Minority Report

Sachin Benny

There is a good case to be made that I am seeking amnesty in the United States because of the amount of paperwork required to simply exist in India

February 16, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Obsolete Taco Bell

Katie Higinbotham

I stare into the drive-thru order box, the cars behind me now three deep.

Decision fatigue. That’s what my therapist calls it. Decision fatigue must be what renders me silent in the Taco Bell

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 5, 2025 | Nonfiction

Wheels within Wheels

J.L. Moultrie

She was convinced that I was in the throes of a mental breakdown

and when I asserted that I was not, she’d shut down completely.

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 20, 2025 | Nonfiction

The Catholic

Danielle Chelosky

I’m hitting my vape while he’s being vulnerable.

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.

January 5, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Peekaboo

Reza Jabrani

“We’re watching Bluey,” I say. “And we’re starving,”

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 29, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Fred Wilkes

May Robbins

I sit in my flat and stare at my phone and try to weigh up the risks of calling, weigh up my own exhaustion with life

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 19, 2024 | Nonfiction

MAN STRUCK BY STRAY BULLET, SURVIVES UNSCATHED

Cletus Crow

At first, Grandpa thought a hawk had dropped a rabbit on Dad's head.

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.

December 1, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Should We Still Go to the Store?

Kassie Rene

I am always wearing one of Freddy’s shirts. They are worn in perfectly and covered with jazz players on the front or artists that older people always recognize—artists I don’t really know anything about.

November 26, 2024 | Nonfiction

notes from a recovering anhedonic

Rosalind Margulies

i keep love around like a shirt i hope i’ll fit into again someday

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.

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