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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 7, 2024 | Nonfiction

Sadness

David Luntz

and partly because she went to Yale and married the class president and blasts the socials with pics of their exotic vacations and announcements of their children’s accomplishments

November 5, 2024 | Nonfiction

Excerpt From 'Year One'

Marina Raydun

This is what I was waiting for. I all but cry, but I don’t.

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 24, 2024 | Nonfiction

My Favorite Shooter?

Gina Tron

"The letters shake me up because they are written by regular, everyday teenage girls from across the nation," he said.

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 12, 2024 | Nonfiction

LIKE LIKE LIKE

Lauren Matthews

When we met, I was dazzled by how easily she surrendered to her desire. She’d wake up late and order breakfast from the store down the street, roll in late to work and not think twice.

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 6, 2024 | Nonfiction

On Being Mad

Jennifer Ostopovich

my first hospitalization was at 13 after swallowing a bottle of Tylenol.

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 29, 2024 | Nonfiction

They Called Him a Monster

Jennifer Ostopovich

The idea that mental illness can be effectively managed with drugs is a relatively new one

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 23, 2024 | Nonfiction

Fear and Loathing at the United Center

Emma Burger

It was day three of the Democratic National Convention and day 19 of my short tenure as a Chicago resident. I had the day off work, and nothing to do but get on my Hunter S. Thompson shit and poke my nose around the old DNC to do some gonzo journalism.

August 21, 2024 | Nonfiction

Prozac Nation, Revisited

Francesca Spiegel

When I told one of my professors that in my lunch hour, I’d met with a writer named Elizabeth Wurtzel, the old man rolled his eyes:

“That book was such garbage. She tried to write a second book, and a third, but they flopped.”

August 20, 2024 | Nonfiction

Charles River

Joe Nasta

Imagine what happens inside gated communities behind closed doors, even in homes owned by a retired cop and special education teacher! I had nothing but my body and when I used it, I was called a devious animal.

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 15, 2024 | Nonfiction

Excerpt from 'Body Count' (33 1/3)

Ben Apatoff

“When the president says your name in anger, the shit has hit the fan.”
Ice-T

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.

August 4, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

A Moveable Fetus

Jean Richardson

Foreshadowing!

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 24, 2024 | Nonfiction

Minor's Libido

Alexander Hackett

In 1902, he finally cut off his own penis with a small knife that he'd managed to smuggle into his cell.

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.”

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Danielle Chelosky

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

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