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June 6, 2025 |

[bused in michigan winters, I believed the honesty of strangers]

J.L. Moultrie

no one can reach me you stopped drinking mined former awe

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June 5, 2025 | Nonfiction

Failure to Disappear

Faryal Rashid

I was convinced I would die. A lone cig, maybe three gin spritzes, benzodiazepining into extinction. Ativan.

“Fuck the Future, Join the Freak Circus”: A Review of Jessamyn Violet’s Venice Peach photo

June 4, 2025 | Book Review

“Fuck the Future, Join the Freak Circus”: A Review of Jessamyn Violet’s Venice Peach

Melissa Pleckham

As weird and wild and beautiful and filthy as Venice Beach itself, Jessamyn Violet's new novel, Venice Peach, has everything I want in books about Los Angeles: Beautiful imagery, characters that are

the head of the mule deer in your father's den was a gift from his cousin photo

June 3, 2025 | Poetry

the head of the mule deer in your father's den was a gift from his cousin

Eric Subpar

I am more deserving of your love than he is. My heart beats twice the size of others.