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October 25, 2023 | Fiction

Incontrovertible Proof that You Are an Asshole

Michael Schoch

I would talk to the doll, then it would talk back to me, reflecting me to myself. And then I’d adjust my behavior accordingly. And, eventually, become a better, less annoying person. It’s kind of genius in a way?

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October 24, 2023 | Poetry

Homage

Ebba Wiig

we forgive nothing
we forget nothing
we just ignore it
wasn’t that always
the problem?

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October 24, 2023 | Fiction

Etymologies

Bud Jennings

Under a contrived knit brow, his eyes aimlessly drifted among a thicket of words, until they happened to stop on depling, noun, German to Middle English, a child born to older parents, and thus he found a new label for himself, more succinct than his mother’s change-of-life baby and less piercing than faggot, which Joey Novakis and his friends would blurt as they passed him in the school hallways.

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October 23, 2023 | Nonfiction

Transcript of a Hypothetical TikTok Cooking Video

Liam E.T. Johnson

Okay guys today I'm going to be making you one of my favorite dishes from childhood with a couple of my own little twists. My mom used to make this all the time and I just love it. It's suuuper