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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.

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August 24, 2026 | Poetry

Five poems

Eva Alter

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

 

Knights of Sorrowful Profiles: Adventures
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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.

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August 21, 2026 | Poetry

Mutual Masturbation

Billy Lambent & Ginger Jones

Fearless, sweet boy, / your courage is not lost. / I am uncontainable / ​​​​by nature too. 

August 21, 2026 | Fiction

Through Donkey Jaw

Dickie

This was only a few months after I lost my husband, and much of that time is a blur. I still felt as if there was something between me and the world. In some lights it was a window, in others a mirror.

August 20, 2026 | Fiction

FLGL8

Ursula Carroll

He looked like the kind of person who fed the pigeons in the park, and he charged $44.99 per hour to come to my home and hurt me. I scheduled him for the following Thursday.

August 19, 2026 | Fiction

Glue Pour

Grant Maierhofer

There wasn’t anything to say, or to do, but there was this terrible feeling as though one of these things was the thing desperately in need of pursuing.

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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!