Posts by Sean Turner McLeod

March 30, 2022 | Nonfiction

My Shoes Are Ruined and You Said Nothing

Sean Turner McLeod

You are standing on an indifferent platform in Preston Station and a little black spaniel is making unbreaking eye-contact with you as he pisses on your leg.

March 24, 2022 | Nonfiction

Queer Time, Sand Too

Aislin Neufeldt

Maybe you didn’t recognize me, me with longer hair, growing tits, a new name.

March 22, 2022 | Fiction

The Far Side

Julie Goldberg

She was going up to Poughkeepsie to see a girl she had met on the internet who, promisingly, shared her passion for Gary Larson comics.

March 21, 2022 | Poetry

In a New York Summer

David Ehmcke

Two men smoking cigarettes on Bleecker could mean anything
to each other.

March 20, 2022 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Prep School Drug Mule

Sadie McCarney

Fifteen years before my autism diagnosis - the year I chopped off all my hair with jagged scissors - I hid a not inconsequential baggie of hash in my dorm room closet. I was, as always, trying to

February 25, 2022 | Poetry

Question for the Rio Grande

Saúl Hernández

Do you remember the names of everyone you swallow

February 22, 2022 |

What Men Want

Sandra Jensen

Here’s the plan: we’ll become high-class prostitutes. “Courtesans,” I say, “like ancient Greece.”

February 20, 2022 | fucked up modern love essays

Jay

Edward M. Cohen

Jay arrived once a week, every week, for sex. He was a dental student, worked  Wednesdays at a clinic near my house so it was easy for him to call to see if I was free. I made sure that I was. He

February 18, 2022 | Poetry

A Drawing of My First Tattoo

Mercury-Marvin Sunderland

tree tree tree tree calvin calv hobbes

February 17, 2022 | Nonfiction

Johnny’s Knives

Mia D’Avanza

I know that I should be sad, or at least look sad, or somber, as I go through the things in Johnny’s room.

February 16, 2022 | Poetry

Do Not Ask God For The Way To Heaven; He Will Show You The Hardest One

David Wojciechowski

A man was arrested for creating a labyrinth in an IKEA.

February 14, 2022 | Poetry

Red Aphrodite

Andie Sheridan

doesn’t know how to give a PROPER blowjob
The spittle
of the sea
                        otherwise known as Jamaica Pond
dries hard on her eros:erring:elbow still deeper
resonating
in her

February 11, 2022 |

Carts

Daisy Alioto

I don’t respond and two hours later he sends a photo of the dog.

February 10, 2022 |

Carts

Daisy Alioto

Alice sighs in the way only British people can sigh. Maybe it’s all the rain they have inhaled.

February 9, 2022 |

Carts

Daisy Alioto

We went back and forth, hyping each other up, talking about the best summer of our lives and how we would never be this young again and if we pet an alpaca everyone would be jealous.

February 8, 2022 | Nonfiction

Lake Michigan

Anna Adami

Wind, always strongest by water, whistles and whooshes, knocks a girl off her feet.

February 8, 2022 |

Carts

Daisy Alioto

I am searching for the type of room that would change my life if I lived there, you know the one.

February 7, 2022 |

Carts

Daisy Alioto

“Bandeau,” I type into the Tumblr search bar. The results load like a quilt of skin.

February 2, 2022 | Poetry

horse girl

Andrew Ketcham

I'm waiting for influenza in Virginia. Or the taste of something metal.

January 31, 2022 | Fiction

She Could

Anu Kandikuppa

She could eat. She could get a little plump, not so plump that he wouldn’t like it, but plumper than before she knew him, when she had to stay thin and dainty so she could get married and become plump, though no more than he liked.