Posts by Nina Barufaldi

August 30, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Sugar Island

Nina Barufaldi

There is a rooster tail of snow and ice behind it, and the roar of the engine enters my chest before he reaches me.

August 27, 2026 | Poetry

3 Poems

Danielle Altman

Why am I being so transactional?
Why am I being so weak?     
Why am I talking to strange men online?

August 26, 2026 | Poetry

Bryce,

Nicholas Wilder Forman

I keep my teeth sharp / cus plush is still abundant // it’s a good reason to keep going, / biting the seam off jackets // biting the states off one by one

August 21, 2026 | Fiction

Through Donkey Jaw

Dickie

This was only a few months after I lost my husband, and much of that time is a blur. I still felt as if there was something between me and the world. In some lights it was a window, in others a mirror.

August 18, 2026 | Poetry

Soar into Your Destiny I & II

Alexandra Naughton

good afternoon, passengers. this is your captain speaking. first of all, i would like to welcome everyone to my midlife crisis.

August 16, 2026 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

kidney disease made me toxic

Dara Landau

Then, my ex decided that they had to move to New York to build community around doing shrooms, eating olives, and working for NYC Health

August 6, 2026 | Fiction

Wordlessly into Oblivion

Nick van Osdol

He imagines regaling his girlfriend, who is sound asleep across the house, underfucked and on her way out soon, out of his life, that is, a fact unacknowledged by either but appreciated by both, with the news that he’s caught a cockroach.

 

July 31, 2026 | Fiction

Keffer

David Gladfelter

Riley took a little step forward and looked up. “Do you want to play Xbox with us?”

July 29, 2026 | Fiction

RECREATE PATROCLES

James Jacob Hatfield

The nuclear fission that generated heat should not have been survivable after one hour.

July 27, 2026 | Fiction

Sexual Harassment

Danielle Chelosky

I was excited at the idea of killing a man, because I thought I really deserved it.

July 19, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Your Therapist Calls You Codependent

Jade McGregor

Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder instructs you to maintain boundaries

July 16, 2026 |

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHELSEA MARTIN

Elizabeth Ellen & friends

I felt really supported and loved when Chelsea cut her bangs too.

July 16, 2026 | Nonfiction

Oxygen Bar, Vegas, 2016

Chelsea Martin, Chloe Caldwell, Elizabeth Ellen

“We should be making deals,” Chloe said.

“Healthy competition,” I said.

“I don’t have any Twitter followers,” I said

July 14, 2026 | Poetry

Two Poems

Louis Packard

hella errands before dark / hella bros still on the clock

July 8, 2026 | Fiction

The Guy Who Was Just Like Me

Gideon Leek

That night, I spent hours scrolling reels on Instagram. I stopped to watch a monkey on skis.

July 6, 2026 |

Corey

Oliver Land

I must have turned bright red as I watched him spin, dance and sing.

July 4, 2026 | Fiction

Independence Day

Jon Doughboy

A ground spinner in the shape of Saturn which promises its rings are sexier than all the emperor’s concubines combined, than all of your wishes fulfilled. Poppers and fountains. I think my boss’s daughter groomed me. Rich kid calling in the help to get on his knees and pleasure his betters.

July 3, 2026 | Fiction

The Hunter

D.R. Garrett 

I asked him to bring me some nachos from the mini mart he worked at. We had rebound sex on my futon.

June 22, 2026 | Poetry

Banged Erasers

Damon Hubbs

Amazing fucking Grace, 

tell them 

how you’re production 

and I’m consumption

and how we mess around 

with gender roles 

June 21, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

On Blowing Your Life Up

Daddio Jones

Every morning I’d wake up, walk to Target and take a hangover dump in their nice clean bathroom