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August 25, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

In the Service of Unknown Gods

Sam Redlark

[The names of certain parties have been changed. Other names were never known and are now lost in time.]

I get maudlin and nostalgic over the Christmas holidays, mostly for a past version of

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Fear and Loathing at the United Center photo

August 23, 2024 | Nonfiction

Fear and Loathing at the United Center

Emma Burger

It was day three of the Democratic National Convention and day 19 of my short tenure as a Chicago resident. I had the day off work, and nothing to do but get on my Hunter S. Thompson shit and poke my nose around the old DNC to do some gonzo journalism.

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August 23, 2024 | Fiction

Danny's Dog

Josh Code

I wash the semen off of my hands in the pool.

Excerpt of The Valeries: pages one and two photo

August 22, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt of The Valeries: pages one and two

Forrest Muelrath

You will never truly know Valerie, because you will never find my son, nor hopefully want to after his trite art project that is endangering us all is laid to rest by what follows.