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May 31, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

99 Miles from LA

Mia Culpa

You harness the light like the love of a good horse, your word is law among the stars and the sand, patron saint of all things misunderstood in the daytime.

99 Miles from LA photo
I Won’t Be Sane For You photo

May 29, 2026 | Poetry

I Won’t Be Sane For You

Sarah L. Heringer

She’s gone. Stop knocking.

What did I do today.

I walked through Costco
dissociated,
watching a woman who looked like me
push a cart
like this is the world.
Like this is what we’re

Dad Micronation photo

May 28, 2026 | Fiction

Dad Micronation

Maximiliano Guzmán

His unbuttoned shirt, his summer breakfast. The gesture of his mouth was the opening of unsaid words.

Are You There, Jane? It’s Me Femcel: Buying The Boyfriend Experience photo

May 27, 2026 | Nonfiction

Are You There, Jane? It’s Me Femcel: Buying The Boyfriend Experience

Madison Murray

The gigolos texted me back while my mom and I watched Zootopia 2

May 27, 2026 | Poetry

Four Poems

Jackie K. White

Fury Psalm 6:

Let there be a God, an earth, seasons weathered through a time
for this, for that, for breathing and for holding one’s breath.

Let there be seasons when the moon has nothing to be

May 26, 2026 | Poetry

Tonight he only dreams of tulips

Jason Davidson

Lie here with me, if only for a while.

May 25, 2026 | Fiction

Entombed 

James Callan

I was on my morning jog when I saw what I believed to be a young man asleep or dead in the sand.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Her Lesser Work

Elizabeth Ellen

"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."

      -Walker Caplan, Literary Hub