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May 3, 2026 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

The Unsuccessful Attempt to Bite the Dust

Rebecca Forest

I listen to Queen. “Another One Bites the Dust.” The soundtrack of my life.

April 26, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Shabu Shabu

Greta Kaluževičiūtė

With a spoon, I am turning you away.

April 20, 2026 | Nonfiction

Dottie After Dark

Jillian Luft

I’m in the habit of befriending slightly older women. Maternal figures leading bohemian lives within suburban parameters. Seekers abandoned in childhood by dead(beat) moms. Motherless daughters can sniff out other motherless daughters. We wear our stale deprivation like a discontinued perfume.

 

April 19, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Pink, Elephant

Kate Xu

There was a guy called PixelMoth13 on a late-night forum saying, “Love is a wound that repeatedly tears and stitches itself back together.” I clicked like.

April 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

Five Bucks

Sylvia Math

Rude Guy tortured me. I would go over to his house in ridiculously slutty outfits, and he would only open his door a crack, and give me a poetry quiz. Then he would let me in, but still not fuck me!

April 12, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Cool It

E.F. Flynn

The snow is falling in big chunks, disguising the somber gray of the neighborhood I hate, Bushwick. I thought it’d grow on me by now, our second winter here; it hasn’t. On the street below is a bright

April 5, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

I’m fucking (over) my ex

Jack Hyslop

I got a tattoo on my ass at her behest.

March 26, 2026 | Nonfiction

Your Favorite Onlyfans Model is Lonely Too

Ella Margaret

Or maybe he’d become enamored with another OnlyFans model with a bigger butt and perkier tits and a more welcoming smile.

March 22, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Zurich

E.T. Aragón

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During my last couple of years in Spain, things—how shall we say?—spun out of control. It was like getting tossed by one of those huge ferocious Northern Californian waves that tumbles you, holds

March 15, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

You're Not a Lesbian, You Just Want to Be One

Liss Hansen

I want you to see me ignoring you.

March 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

In Like a Lamb

Nathan St Onge

My last few nights at Will’s house were strained but also pleasant. I consciously wanted to love him. And I did, in a way, but I was drifting.

March 11, 2026 | Nonfiction

On Emma Goldman's Revolution

Matti Ben-Lev

Punishments:

—deprivation of recreation

—bread and water diet

—48-hour dungeon stays; no bed, no food, no lights

March 9, 2026 | Nonfiction

How to Get Exiled From Canada (a true story from 2011)

Scott Laudati

This was my chance! I moved to the seat in front of her and we lay across our seats and laughed together like a yin-yang necklace coming back together.

March 8, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Baby Fever

Violet Gordon

or because I’d seen him unwrap the extra large condom and suddenly longed, anxiously and fatuously like a girl wanting her stuffed animal, for my first boyfriend who weighed less than me

March 2, 2026 | Nonfiction

Lite Brite Strobes And Supertramp

Kim Barry Brunhuber

Alex burrowed into my cold, bright grave, nestled in tight.

March 1, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Were You With Richard at Empire Diner?

Carrie Stetler

That night she found me on Facebook.

February 27, 2026 | Nonfiction

Stop Making Sense

Tyler Dempsey

The written word, music, visual arts. These, if done well, are the unconscious sneaking past the curtain. Using language to self-implode Logic. Some real Matrix shit.

February 25, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Bay Area Girl

Josie Braaten

In the black screen, I watched M undress me slowly.

I wanted to cry.

February 20, 2026 | Nonfiction

Truest Image

Amy DeBellis

Midway through our relationship, he had told me that whenever we had sex, he needed to think of other girls in order to stay hard. He told me everyone did it

February 19, 2026 | Nonfiction

I Like the Way It Hurts

Meredith Aristone

One night Evan and I got so drunk on grape liquor that we started making out in the shower

February 19, 2026 | Nonfiction

A Night On Earth With Mr. Hell

Danielle Chelosky

I consider asking Richard if he’ll piss on my book but I’m still too shy.

February 17, 2026 | Nonfiction

Britney Ghazal

Samiha Matin

Played a socialite who leaves her abusive husband to run off with an outlaw, themes
 

February 15, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

I'm Here to Punish You

Sarah Velk

Skaters are like theater kids with better outfits.

February 15, 2026 | Nonfiction

Old Flings, New Transgressions

Gadfly

A Little Death

February 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

Dirty Pierre

Joe Douglass

An aggressive Doberman knocked Cindy up weeks later.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Her Lesser Work

Elizabeth Ellen

"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."

      -Walker Caplan, Literary Hub