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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.

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March 28, 2025 | Sports

Unathletic Incident

Alex Avakiantz

Before that glorious year, I was relegated to the “husky” section, which is clothing not for dogs but overweight children.

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March 28, 2025 | Sports

MARCH MADNESS, 2019: Author as Capitalistic Commodity

Elizabeth Ellen

"There are no actual pages. They are hollow. They are just for show. I think how perfect that is, how much of the literary world is just for show. Hollow. Superficial. More often than not it doesn’t matter the words inside, only the name on the book, the book as an object, the author as object. Author as persona. Author as capitalistic commodity. Minor celebrity. A name to drop at a New York City party."

 

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March 27, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Selen Ozturk

It was bad today.

I stood in Trader Joe’s two hours