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May 23, 2026 | Nonfiction

Someone Else's Flowers

Tara Layne

“The Upper East Side. For uncreative rich people who don't know the first thing about being happy,” Mom said, and I believed her.

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For Practice photo

May 22, 2026 | Fiction

For Practice

Hannah Meyer

Avery was the worst kind of people pleaser. A failed one who didn’t know how to make other people happy but attempted only to her own demise. When Sienna asked Avery if she wanted to steal, the yes

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May 21, 2026 | Poetry

Eagle

Oliver Land

then
the eagle is healed

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May 20, 2026 | Fiction

This Place, for Magic

Eric Boyd

It is warm in the theatre. The chair is comfortable. The trailers ended and most of the films looked good. A Coca Cola ad begins playing, which is the second to last thing they show before the movie.

May 19, 2026 | Poetry

Early August

Destin Shimer

She walks around like a colt in a kitchen I don’t know, bluish crescent bruise on her calf flashing every couple of turns at me.

May 18, 2026 | Poetry

vanishing like time and money: 2 poems

Kristopher Hall

I would take you as you are and were
over all this dead air.

May 17, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Uncle Fingers

Ashley Yang-Thompson

I met the man who would become my Uncle through an insane-clown-posse-adjacent dishwasher coworker who wanted us to star in his uncomfortably misogynistic Instagram horror movie.

I had just moved

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