April 26, 2024 | Nonfiction
Wigs
Mona Kirschner
Long before I wore wigs to punish the men who had punished me, I wore them to channel Selma Blair. I was thirteen, my flat chest leaned over the bathroom sink. We were both brunettes, but that’s
April 25, 2024 | Book Review
UNDER A VEHEMENT SKY: A REVIEW OF SEAN KILPATRICK’S ‘TANTRUMS’
David Kuhnlein
To a degree rarely rivaled, Sean Kilpatrick lives for words. Tantrums is a testament to the last twenty years of his life, and includes absolutely batshit scripts, joyfully brutal fiction, and
April 25, 2024 | Poetry
Two Drinks in at the Oyster Bar
Hayden Church
“Have you tried hookers?
Church? God? Your dead
mother? Pills? Coke? Crack?”
April 24, 2024 | Nonfiction
The Streak
Jen Murphy Parker
He spiked a 104 fever and just as I called his neurologist to ask if we should head to the ER, my son seized for the first time in over 157 million seconds.
A Book As An Epiphany: A Review Of Nicolette Polek's 'Bitter Water Opera'
Danielle Chelosky
Bitter Water Opera is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.
About Endlessness
Jonah Primiano
The man that killed the world is being lauded as the better of the billionaires because he launched a cloned app that bans you if you aren’t positive. It’s like if you were stuck underneath a boulder
BLOWING OUT OLD FLAMES
Alyana C
The second time I gave him head he couldn’t get hard. He said this never happens.
The First Man I Grinded With
Karl Hooyman
Someone behind him checked their phone and I saw the time. 1:36am. I thought about what would happen when the bar flicks the lights on and everyone scatter like roaches
Trash
Miss Unity
Ball sweat, BO, ass, dirty armpits, nail polish, hairspray, feet, Newports, Bugler, Jack Daniels, vodka, cupcakes, tequila, donuts, Squirt, hot Cheetos, McDonald’s wrappers, coffee left sitting out for weeks...
Excerpt From 'Bloodletter'
David Kuhnlein
His dreams fill with bell towers, stabbing deaths, his lifeless body dragged by split fingernails into consciousness.
KATHY ACKER MON AMOUR
Jeff Goldberg
“Because of nothing we are together.”
—KA
Now, there were two biographers and a documentary filmmaker circling her fame like the moons of Planet Kathy, goddess of love and lust rising in
Just One Bite
Ashley Bardhan
She began imagining what it might have been like to be Agatha, crying and disheveled with both pale breasts exposed.
Pretty Obscure: Oral Sex & The Tumor Of Consciousness
Danielle Chelosky & Jack Skelley
Let’s get more filthy!
Honest
Selen Ozturk
“I’ve asked you here tonight to tell you I’ve told my wife everything. She’s fine with it, she really is, and I want to really emphasize that. She only asks that we’re not intimate in our bed. Hers
The Year of the Germ
Rebecca Grace Cyr
February 21 – Hungover. And sometimes that’s good.
Word Problems
Amelia Kindall
In time, the questions become increasingly diffuse, numbers jumble and disappear, the symbolic order smears.
Chaos Questions with Bonnie Jo Campbell
Sheldon Lee Compton
If I could be in The Fifth Element, I'd want to be in the scene where they pulled things out of the blue opera singer's belly. But I would want to keep pulling out new, surprising things.
twin eulogies
Yasemin Kopmaz
In their blue jeans and Carhartt beanies, the boys are nearly as pretty as the girls who’ll never fuck them.
They buy a gram of coke and a gram of k because everyone knows that girls love drugs.
Le Loup
Adam Berlin
“How do you say, I am the wolf.”
“Je suis le loup. Tu es mon loup. You are my wolf.”
“Je suis le loup,” I say.
Notes from a United Auto Worker
Nathan Stanek
The night I met Ray Liotta I was backstage at a Kid Rock concert
An Inside-Out-Thing
Becky Tuch
True story.
You know Urmquast Meldoofi? The guy who writes the homeless features for The New York Times? Published a book not too long ago about the plight of the homeless in small urban
A Beauty Beyond Reason
Alula Hunsen
Augmentation, arrangements, verities, varial flips . . .
"Grateful and Mortified": Marissa Higgins on Publishing her Debut Novel A Good Happy Girl
Anna Dorn
Marissa:
I try very hard to be polite and normal, like manners are weirdly important to me given I'm a huge fuckup generally but my inner world is probably a less palatable version of Helen’s 💀💀
Anna:
You’re out here trying to be a good happy girl
It felt more real when I drew it
Jonah Primiano
They say The Cloud is a bad metaphor for the internet because this makes it seem immaterial and like its presence doesn’t have a real physical impact on the planet. They say to remember the server
Chaos Questions with Tom Williams
Sheldon Lee Compton
Guys, you’ve got Earl fucking Palmer out here in LA. The guy played on “Tutti Frutti” for chrissakes. You don’t think he could be part of the next hot thing?