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A Pile of Clothes
Greg Gerke
I feel too sorry, I’m too tired, and though I desperately want to change my life, I’m not in a position to, which is to say I’ve taken up the position of defending my nondefendable position. Position underneath position.
Painted Blue
Kitty Saint-Rémy
The air felt so heavy that it would suffocate all language.
The Secret Admirer of Virginia Woolf
Helena Haitian Jiang
‘Eaten.’ He rectifies, his tongue flips out and recoils in saurian swiftness.
Read Sheet [DWJTM]
Ben Jahn
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Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram account (@shortflightlongdrive). Come for the cougar stalking the line between avant-tasteful and not not ironic literary hot mom, stay for zooming in on the books in the background. Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram. I’m liking it for the captions.
Pound-town, U.S.A.
Arielle Gordon
You’ll know you’re entering pound-town, U.S.A. if you start to lie a lot
A Few Words about My Son
David Samuel Levinson
Because isn’t that the true nature of love, protecting each other from our wickedest parts?
What Is the Moon Called?
Michael Robert Liska
The moon men decided to come to Earth because they didn’t like the way the Earth people were always staring at them. Whenever they looked up at that enormous blue orb through their telescope, the
Privacy Fence
Austin Blaze
It’s got good bones, everyone kept telling us. Who knows.
Fablegun Construction
Drew Mosman
I see them right there plain as day, two-dimensional prints, sacred geometry, my life is full of meaning.
Snowflakes
Amy DeBellis
I wake up the next morning with the sensation that my lips weigh ten pounds and are about to drop off my face. I’m too scared to look in the mirror,
She Wants Her MTV
Mallory Smart
They said it was a record-breaking storm. I wasn’t paying attention. I was trying to find a clean bowl and wondering if the radiator was supposed to make that noise. I didn’t think anyone would be out
Excerpts from STEALING MARQUEE MOON
Christopher Kennedy
In those days, it was popular to ask, What would Jesus do? I crucified myself for days.
Excerpt from 'Wedding Crasher, Marin County'
Wilson Koewing
Somebody is going to roofie them, I said. Dave laughed uncertainly.
Russian Class
Angélica Pina Lèbre
I look at the curtain. I haven’t touched the red box since my new friend from Russian class opened it. It feels like a different object now that she’s touched it.
Love Spells
Ginger Jones
When you rearrange my insides you leave me for dead.
How to Be Loved
Yasmin Lagarde
When his heart is an ashtray—cigarette butts put out on a surface that will not flinch
Make Me a Steak?
Colleen Grablick
When I finally swallow, it feels like an admission of failure.
The Decemberists
Maxfield Francis Goldman
She buys us both mineral waters from the MoMA cafe.
Fidele’s Corner
James McGowan
So what if, slightly buzzed, she witnessed jubilant souls who succored maggots with their wounds, or improvised love songs to Señor Suboxone
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!
Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)
Elizabeth Ellen
"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc." -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz