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August 30, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Sugar Island

Nina Barufaldi

There is a rooster tail of snow and ice behind it, and the roar of the engine enters my chest before he reaches me.

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August 28, 2026 | Poetry

Summation of Labor

Hanna Karras

But there, hand gripping faucet / It spoke in a language held only in the body

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August 27, 2026 | Poetry

3 Poems

Danielle Altman

Why am I being so transactional?
Why am I being so weak?     
Why am I talking to strange men online?

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August 26, 2026 | Poetry

Bryce,

Nicholas Wilder Forman

I keep my teeth sharp / cus plush is still abundant // it’s a good reason to keep going, / biting the seam off jackets // biting the states off one by one

August 25, 2026 | Nonfiction

People’s Champion: A Meditation

Faith Palermo

Käärijä doesn’t win Eurovision. We both know this and don’t. Instead, the album brings us to a body broken and weary. Käärijä is willing to do anything, joints displacing themselves to the beat.

August 24, 2026 | Poetry

Five poems

Eva Alter

I am motion-sick with / a divination-death glimpse / of a carnival Earth

 

August 23, 2026 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Knights of Sorrowful Profiles: Adventures in the World of Online Dating

Pia Rubia

"My wife and I are looking for a third partner. I was thinking, maybe…" — here he gave a small cough, his speech turning slurred and hard to follow.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

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

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!