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September 8, 2026 | Poetry

Five Poems 

Cady Hardy

I loved you better as a vague notion. Better / as an uncountable thing. Better /
as an assembly of dog treats.

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September 8, 2026 | Poetry

Brother Graphon

Jacob Potash

I grass-skied down the camp hill in my non-specialist shoes, drifted into the icy endzone with the kids,

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September 7, 2026 | Poetry

VEGAS

Logan Berry

When a bikini-clad granny cracks aces / At Virtual Poker  / The Avatar Dealer, / A flickering PAWG, / Winces or winks  

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September 6, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Not Quite a Love Letter

Canzhen Zhao

Our social circles had overlapped for more than a decade. To everyone here, I was first an old acquaintance, a fixed figure of their long past. Not the person I was today.

September 4, 2026 | Fiction

Confession

Ashley Yang-Thompson

I showed up at a bar that served free meatballs in a red slip I bought at my local Chinese dollar store, hoping to get high on a charmed stranger. 

September 3, 2026 | Poetry

3 Prose Poems

Naa Asheley Ashitey

I'll say the metformin must be working. You'll tell me to message my doctor, ask about upping the dose.

September 2, 2026 | Nonfiction

Regarding Death, Detachment, And The Right to Rise Again in Middle Age

Bob Hill

I feel a change coming on. I want to travel more. I want to visit Vietnam, and Transylvania; I want to watch the sun go down along the Nile.

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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

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