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October 23, 2025 | Fiction

Masseuse Obligations

Brianna Di Monda

This is what we tell ourselves about places like this: that they belong only to a certain New York, a New York of discrete transactions and brass plaques reading “Jeffrey E. Epstein Corporation.”

October 22, 2025 | Fiction

Plastic Clapboard Siding

David Dewey

But even when I felt ashamed for liking her, I also saw her as somehow supernaturally chosen for me. She rejected me from the moment we met. 

October 21, 2025 | Fiction

Dumbshits at Weird Fucks

Nick Dove

I love idiots. Or at least some of them anyway.

October 15, 2025 | Fiction

Davis 6

Benjamin Willems

What was I supposed to do on Friday nights when there was nothing to celebrate?

October 14, 2025 | Fiction

Persian Rug

Jacqueline G.

That day I let him touch me in his car on the side of the train tracks outside of town.

October 13, 2025 | Fiction

Rapture

Danielle Chelosky

Her favorite video was one of a girl getting fucked during a Zoom meeting.

October 10, 2025 | Fiction

Fish Man

Alexandra Levy

No one has dared come to my front door. No one has dared to meet me face to face. 

October 8, 2025 | Fiction

The Mill

Sebastian Møller

At that point her father filled the rooms with firearms. Instead of a house tour Lizzie liked to give friends the glock safari.

October 6, 2025 | Fiction

A Real Man

dankzell

They always share their worst secrets with me and look to me for female forgiveness.

October 1, 2025 | Fiction

Poems Are Kisses

Christina Hartzell

That date where he asked if we could have a threesome and I said no and so we had sex on his roof instead

September 26, 2025 | Fiction

Folk Matters

Matthew Denton-Edmundson

The ladybug nymphs were hatching in the hoop house.

September 25, 2025 | Fiction

In Defense of Ostriches

Su Mielke

Otters float in pools of blood, swans tangle in rivers of entrails. Heads of leopards wear fringed shawls, their fangs piercing shallow trenches.

September 24, 2025 | Fiction

Not a Malcolm Rimmel Story 

Sam Berman

He told me he knew someone on death row. That dreamcatchers weaken over time. He said Oktoberfest was the Promised Land.

September 23, 2025 | Fiction

The Virginity Experiment

Cameron Edrich

Before the third time I lost my virginity, I recorded myself eating an orange with nothing but my mouth.

September 22, 2025 | Fiction

Muscle Memory

Annabelle S. Baird

The wanting requires an immense amount of theater.

September 18, 2025 | Fiction

What Becomes A Gentile’s Dream

Kevin Barnes

I’ve never told anyone this story before because it is a little embarrassing. Plus legally I’m not really supposed to talk about it but…here we go. 

I had my first sexual experience when I was

September 17, 2025 | Fiction

True America

Samson Malmoli

There is inherent loneliness in the mountains.

September 16, 2025 | Fiction

Born to Die

Karina K.

Catholic guilt burned a hole in my palm and hidden in a bag, inside another bag, I lowered it into a dumpster like burying evidence of dead nuns. 

September 15, 2025 | Fiction

The Straggler

Christina Hoffman

I felt his absence slowly growing and absorbing me like a black hole. 

September 11, 2025 | Fiction

Infestation and Delirium

Kelsey Kirk

Other people when they have a sore throat and can't sleep: "I have a sore throat and can't sleep."

Me when I have a sore throat and can't sleep:

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It’s been 3:20 in the morning for ages. I

September 4, 2025 | Fiction

Do People Not Talk About Their Dreams Anymore?

Claire W. Zhang

You didn’t want to manipulate me like you did the others. Should I feel bad for the others? 

August 28, 2025 | Fiction

The Misses

Grace Robins-Somerville

The room smelled like beer and sweat and crushed velvet. The air seemed to hum, hot and full of dust particles and guitar feedback. 

August 20, 2025 | Fiction

Breaking Character

Marie López

She wasn’t cruel. She smiled when he refilled her water glass. She asked about his mother. They had sex with the lights on.

August 19, 2025 | Fiction

Semantics, Darling

Liska Jacobs

That sudden clarity pierced through her: the baby’s soft blanket; the Frappuccino sweating in her hand, the grocery list in the diaper bag. All of this could change and when it did, she would cease to exist.

August 18, 2025 | Fiction

A Woman Like Liz, a Man Like Richard, and a Girl Like Me

Kelsey Kirk

Some girls become Liz. Some girls want to be her. Some just want her. A fictional short story about Liz, Richard and an anonymous anti-hero.

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

Backwardness

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