June 26, 2023 | Nonfiction
Eat, Fuck, (Write About) Murder
Gina Tron
I closed my eyes and imagined bones buried just beyond the volcano, on the other side of the hill.
June 25, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays
Swiping in Purgatory: The Dating Pool Has Piss in It
Exquisite
Snapchat filter. Left.
June 23, 2023 | Nonfiction
The Hitchhiker
Tracey Keilly
My dad had purchased the car for me a year before from a disillusioned actress in the San Fernando Valley. When we arrived at her home to pick up the car, the actress let us in and began sobbing. She said she was moving to Mexico, away from all “this,” waving dramatically out the window to the valley below.
June 22, 2023 | Fiction
The Scene Will Turn You
Garth Miró
I like to hang out with models. Models, like Chip in Rent Boy, understand the “strange desires of men.” They live a life of the body.
All Fours
Brian Allen Carr
People like when their opponents are sick and twisted. It’s easy to win an argument if your enemies are medically immoral people.
The ABCs of My Drug Problem
Lee Black
S is for sponsor who you really should call.
Showing Face
Vasilios Moschouris
but you know there is a Truth Moment coming, and sure enough the next morning he says hey and you say hey and he says sorry about last night
Three Poems
Šari Dale
Dexedrine,
obedient beauty,
a low-calorie
alternative
for excess.
Motherfuckin House of Hunger
Uzodinma Okehi
and by the way, I wear jeans too, and I’ll fuck that white girl, absolutely, from the commercial, the camera trails her on the beach, she’s smiling, now she’s hiding behind her hands . . .
Cosmically Forsaken
Teddy Duncan Jr.
They put her flyer on their mailboxes and look at me like she’s dead.
King Alphonse
Eli S. Evans
You’re probably thinking these things happened a very long time ago, but as a matter of fact it was just yesterday, and yet somehow we are all old and married with children now, even the former supermodel
Three Poems
Daniel Feinberg
My boy on the boulevard bubbling.
Triple wick rip tide in my mind.
Public Freakout
Sydney Hirsch
Seeing a picture of my tits online didn’t bother me as much as it should have.
DON'T STEP INTO MY OFFICE
David Fishkind
With snot running down my chin, weeping, I allowed myself to entertain the possibility that this key situation would go on forever.
Baseball Hybrid Poem
Chris Pellizzari
I tried to remember something my dad told me about Luis Aparicio after Ozzie Guillen made an error in a game in 1991.
Say You're Not Interested
Samantha Paige Rosen
Your date’s cologne smells like rancid wine, which should be a good enough reason to bail, but it’s only hour two and you’ve made a commitment.
Premenstrual Love Letters
Yoon Chung
He doesn’t seem to think I’m a handful. I can tell by his texts.
Excerpt from 'Counterillumination'
Audrey Szasz
I have to believe that what I am writing — what I am living through — means something.
NEW LIFE: LIMA, PERU
Siel Ju
The Utah girls were already asleep. Unlike me, they were going home in a few days.