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January 19, 2026 | Nonfiction

Songs in Case of Sudden Death

Casey Jo Graham Welmers

I add “Ripple” to the playlist and cry, imagine her cradling my broken body the same way I held her own: like it was the world’s rarest treasure. Like I’d never let go.

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January 18, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

the Empty Chair

Jeff Radwell

The next day, she threatened to slit my throat in the dead of night, said my sheets would run redder than every last cunt in Orange County.

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January 17, 2026 | Nonfiction

Evidence of Kindness in 2026

Elizabeth Ellen

HOW COULD SHE POSSIBLY KNOW? How much her words would affect me?

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January 16, 2026 | Poetry

regional terror and its last dream remaker

Madison Nash

There were all these portraits of me hung on the walls and they would dance on the frames,
 the shadow people that spiritually strapped my body to the mattress.

January 16, 2026 | Fiction

Just For Kicks

Danielle Chelosky

He wanted to eat her out while she read his book aloud.

January 15, 2026 | Nonfiction

Writers' Workshop II

Emma Burger

Freshly thirty and newly heartbroken, the second class of our writers' workshop found me at a very midlife crisis time in my life. On Monday, things ended with the man I thought I might

January 15, 2026 | Fiction

We Sell Dreams Here, After All

Alysa Levi-D'Ancona

“You want to go to Heaven with me tonight?” Juniper delicately dropped one of the pieces of sandwich into her mouth.

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Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub

Who Killed Mabel Frost?

Miss Unity

I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…