November 18, 2015 | Fiction
I Still Think of You
Tatiana Ryckman
This is not beautiful because this is not beautiful.
November 17, 2015 | Fiction
Tiger Blood
Bud Smith
I meet a girl on OK Cupid and the first date goes well enough.
Don't Trust Me: I Think of Opera Far Too Early in the Morning
Frank Montesonti
There is a room in the cathedral called
"The Quiet Room."
Imagine.
Its entrance, this body too shaky
for comfort.
Janus, god of doorways and beginnings,
when I desire
The Art of Fiction Menswear
Aaron Burch
I've known Tom Williams for a handful of years. I think I originally met him through Barrelhouse, and I've mostly tried to not hold that against him. He is, in the parlance of whoever it is that
Some Horns (Pt. 9)
Nick Francis Potter
I mean, werewolves, they have appetites, don't they?
three poems
Shy Watson
"free the nipples"
I beat a guy
who had a crush on me
at beer pong
we got stoned
in the Walmart parking lot
when my car wouldn't start
6 months later
he
Lori Jakiela Interview
Sandra Newman
In her third memoir, Belief is its own kind of truth, Maybe, Lori Jakiela uses a collage-style structure to write about the collage-like process of assembling an identity, and the particular
I'm Not Joking
Jeremy Whiston
Eventually she won't think of me unless she hears mention of my name, or sees my friends, or a boxy japanese sedan from the 80s, or, perhaps, a Paul Simon poster
hollow
Mark Patrick Spencer
When I die
I'll die
In the woods
I will be found
After 14 months
By a 9 year old
You're picturing a boy
But it's a girl
She is lost
And climbs over a log
To see
If she
Emotional Boys Being Emotional: a Bro Country Dispatch
Leesa Cross-Smith
Luke walks that line inbetween doing his booty-shaking and grinding on stage and also seeming like your “cool” youth pastor and that's not a knock. I love Luke Bryan and there's something about him that seems so genuine and sweet, I can't even picture him being fussy or rude with anyone.
The Green Inferno & Knock Knock / Wolf’s Hole at Spectacle Theater
Sean Kilpatrick
I’m a stockpiling cakemix of a man trapped in the well Tarantino dug for me around age eleven.
When People Say 'Fun Fact' I Interrupt And Say 'You're Never Going To Own A House'
Oliver Mol
at work last night a group of brisbane boys came to sydney
they hired our function room to celebrate their friend's bucks night
they had been at the races all day betting on horses and
The GwalaCost // Ep. 2
Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro reviews rapper Travis Scott's debut studio album Rodeo.
The Fragile Heroine
Shawn Binder
I’ve thought a lot about what it is that draws me into slasher films as a gay man. Maybe I am drawn to them because I read about so many queer people being victimized; in a way I am turning to them for survival tips.
Reasons Why Ladies Prefer Chuck Norris to Steven Seagall
Andy Rogers
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
What Bangkok Feels Like to a Recovering Sex Addict
Erica Garza
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
Mud Hustler
KT Pinker
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
2 Poems
Alexis Rhone Fancher
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
Everything
Kevin Maloney
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
Touch Me (an excerpt)
Apollonia Fox
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
Jonathan Franzen's Purity: Driving Mister Franzen
Sean Kilpatrick
Over the course of being mounted by this tome, I took up a pipe, drank scotch from an airplane toilet, consigned to rubbing myself down with strange bleaches, minced any sense of diet intentionally diabetic by an assortment of binge ate junk...
2002: An Internet Odyssey
Fiona Helmsley
I spent a considerable amount of my time online drooling on myself, arguing with the Courtney Love haters who camped out on her website, and searching for low- effort ways to get off the pills. None existed.
Foul Balls
David Ezekiel Kruse
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this
“p” is for pussy. that’s good enough for me.
Calvero
We had no idea what Erotica Week would look like when we dreamed it up, over Twitter, months ago. And now that it's finally here, I'd describe it like this: the stories and poems on the site this