Posts by Thora Dahlke

December 20, 2024 | Fiction

FLUSH

Thora Dahlke

Like everyone born after 1991, I hate my job.

December 18, 2024 | Poetry

we remember what it's like to be in love: 3 poems

Tyler Dempsey

i turned out alright

December 15, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Connecticut

Nora Goodbody

The drive to Connecticut was easy. There were hardly any other cars on the road. It was foggy and grey and the highway seemed to stretch out endlessly in front of me. The governor had warned against

December 13, 2024 | Fiction

WHAT'S SO HORRIBLE

Amy DeBellis

“What’s so horrible about being able to take all the emotions you don’t want to feel and just vomit them out of you, and then you’re clean, you’re done with them, you’re numbed out and high?”

“What’s so horrible about being able to get high on your own emptiness, on your strength and your willpower, on your superiority, on how you’re able to get by on so little, you may as well be made of air?”

December 13, 2024 | Poetry

Our last rodeo

Sheridan Wilbur

Passenger princess, king behind the wheel

December 12, 2024 | Fiction

Last Friday Night

Odelia Wu

Feels like the hour before closing at Chuck-E-Cheese.

December 10, 2024 | Poetry

Sorry

Madi Bean

if I could talk to your friends they would dox my hinge prompts. I dream that I'm you and give birth to myself.

December 6, 2024 | Fiction

Distances

Dylan Reber

The smile on her face huge and probably she knew then that she would marry him.

December 5, 2024 | Poetry

The World is Ending and So Are We: 5 poems

Ingrid M. Calderón-Collins

Love. That’s all I want. That’s all we want. These people. These dogs.

December 3, 2024 | Interview

Ella Baxter on Woo Woo

Anna Dorn

What author’s (dead or alive) persona is aspirational?
I have never found any authors to be aspirational.

December 2, 2024 | Fiction

The Invisible Official

Tyson Duffy

The bullies, they made him feel young, alive. He would never admit this to anyone, but he was fairly sure the other teachers, after a glass of wine or three, would concur.

November 29, 2024 | Interview

Submarines Don't Swim: A Conversation with Mathematician Kevin Buzzard

Audrey Zheng

Asking if a computer can do art or science is like asking if a submarine can swim...

November 27, 2024 | Fiction

The Rose of No Man’s Land

Benjamin Bond West

“...symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum. Or so I told myself.” – VALIS

“There’s a rose that grows on no man’s land, and it’s wonderful to see” – The Rose of No

November 26, 2024 | Nonfiction

notes from a recovering anhedonic

Rosalind Margulies

i keep love around like a shirt i hope i’ll fit into again someday

November 18, 2024 | Book Review

Midwest Suffering And Brainrot: A Review Of John Doe's 'Autumn In The Pain House'

Danielle Chelosky

Is John Doe a writer, or just a content machine?

November 17, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Paper Doll

Hailey Danielle

I ignored it when he admitted he had cheated on all of his girlfriends, and I ignored it when he became quickly angry over something small. I ignored the red flags

November 16, 2024 | Interview

LIVING ROOM CRAFT TALKS & DISCOVERY: A CONVERSATION WITH ELLEN BASS

Audrey Zheng

I am always talking about the quality of paying attention and the quality of being willing to go into the unknown, being willing to not know. 

November 13, 2024 | Poetry

Three poems on our precious context

The Neighbourhood Coward

Destroy something for my sake.

November 12, 2024 | Fiction

Schadenfreude

Andrew Worthington

Okay, you know how I like to go to the bathroom. We’ve talked about it at sessions over and over again.

November 8, 2024 | Poetry

Two Poems

Zachary Bond

On the back of his badge, he had a barcode with which he could change almost anything.