May 28, 2020 | Poetry
The Pros & Cons of Breaking Up with a Boyfriend while He’s at Sea
Tyler Friend
Your boyfriend was the first...
May 27, 2020 | Fiction
Nudes Story
Sean Thor Conroe
He couldn’t yet do the thing he’d learned to, of establishing some authority by playfully, sweetly infantilizing her. By appealing to the equalizing, mutual infantilization of early love baby talk.
The Many Panics of This Century
Ansley Clark
Deep inside some problem of self-perception / a face believes...
The Town Dump
Sam Price
I was at a party, one of those parties where everyone is drinking heavily, like they are trying to accomplish something. Me, I was trying to calm my nerves. I don’t know what anyone else’s end goal
Me Wrapped Up, In 25 Feet
Jeanene Harlick
I was the only person in my family this level of depravity happened to.
Traces
Hailey Danielle
I followed him up the stairs up to his apartment and once inside he made parachutes, wrapping loose MDMA in tissue paper.
Red Hands
Barrett Bowlin
No cheating; you've got to keep your fingers touching my fingers. Good. Remember to keep your hands flat. Flat and steady and ready.
Ex-Ray
Amy V. Blakemore
When I broke up with you, I thought you might kill me, and somehow, I was bored.
2 Self-Portrait Poems
Prince Bush
The pterodactyl’s crimson, triangular-tailed head,
And the escalator-like galaxy open up...
Distant Barking Dogs
Joshua Bohnsack
The first dog barks. Second dog. First dog. Third dog joins in. Then a fourth. Then a cacophony and I lose track of the dogs barking in a distance, down the quiet street where my father and I have nothing left to say to one another.
Guided Meditation and Relaxation
Andrew Bomback
Xenia and I had been cheating on each other with the same woman for about three months
Another Old Man at the Bridge
Sarah Viren
You will read my restrained but subtly brutal birth story and finally recognize that we who give birth are dauntless soldiers returning to the fight and we are also the old men ignoring the bombs because we have animals at home we love too much to go on and we have never felt more alive than we do right now.
Through Thick Glass
Alexandria Hall
After that, I gave up / on finding a good doctor...
My First Name
Siân Griffiths
This new doctor smiles as he enters the room, as if we’re sharing a joke though we’ve never met before. “Tell me,” he says, “how many people get your name right on the first try?”
THIS IS THE TITLE OF AN INTERIEW (elixabeth change this lol)
Elizabeth Ellen
i used to write on adderall like a million years ago or when drinking also but thats stopped. like once, last year, i wrote a short story while drinking, and i cant even remember where i saved it so idek if its any good, bc after a while i got distracted and started watching YouTube makeup reviews.
Infinite Predator
Blake Butler
Of course there’s little difference between now and any other time, in relation to the unforeseeable aspects of tragedy taking place; it is just as likely that some improbable event occurs here in the restaurant as any other place, including the drive home, during which all it would take is a flick of the wrist from any of the countless passing strangers to change your lives.
Liveblog 2
Megan Boyle
Like if I were at this apartment in 2009 I’d be talking to some guy with scraggly teeth and pockmarked skin and a hoodie but he’d also be like, unconventionally handsome, but you could tell the last time he talked to his mom he said some fucked up shit and probably beat up his siblings growing up, and I’d be thinking ‘this seems like…my only option…’
Plague Poems
Juliet Escoria
We decided that quarantine
would be fuckintine
except then I got a UTI




