February 23, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay
How I Wed My Wofe
Sam Cavalcanti
I had been seeing this girl, Shelby, for about a month when I got married. To someone else.
The summer after graduating college sank me into a deep depression. Most of my friends moved out of
February 21, 2025 | Nonfiction
Notes on Leaving
J.L. Moultrie
The Bible illustrates that considering God’s every word is not an endeavor steeped in
safety.
February 21, 2025 | Poetry
Four Poems
Bradley King
Sun on the creases of someone I love, shadows cut / our funny surface.
February 20, 2025 | Nonfiction
Two stories about sex
Irina Varina
The 19th century word for “penis,” in one very well-written red-light district instruction manual for a battalion stationed in Moscow, is “instrument of physiological longing.”
Minority Report
Sachin Benny
There is a good case to be made that I am seeking amnesty in the United States because of the amount of paperwork required to simply exist in India
Golfing with Bruce
Colin Gee
Bruce took one golf lesson at the local country club and rushed home to teach us what he knew: line your toes up in the direction you want to shoot, do not step as you swing like you do in baseball,
Obsolete Taco Bell
Katie Higinbotham
I stare into the drive-thru order box, the cars behind me now three deep.
Decision fatigue. That’s what my therapist calls it. Decision fatigue must be what renders me silent in the Taco Bell
The IMPRACTICAL WONDERFULNESS of ART: Elizabeth Ellen interviews Christopher Zeischegg
Elizabeth Ellen
My point here is that I no longer want my art practice to have a direct and negative impact on my personal relationships.
How to Tell the Size of a Man's Penis via His Texting Style: A Helpful Guide for Valentine's Day
Tracy Dubin
When you texted him something passive aggressive because he didn't answer your text in a timely manner, did he ignore you harder? Small dick energy (SDE).
Amygdala Disco Party
Sivan Lavie
You are such a hot cowboy and I feel so lucky that you’re with me in this, standing in these dark brain fields right now, I think to myself.
The Story of White Water: A White Guy with a Sweat Lodge
Natalie Storey
We knew, for example, that according to 23 and Me, White Water didn’t have even a trace of indigenous blood, not even Cherokee, not even if you went back four generations.
How the algorithm detects a broken heart
Jun Chou
1. [User] searches for [potential ex]’s profile.
2. [User] views [potential ex]’s profile.
3. [User] unfollows [potential ex].
4. [User] views [8 photos] on [potential ex]’s
Mathematics and Metaphor: A Conversation with Barry Mazur
Audrey Zheng
Mathematicians make use of rather interesting and imaginative leaps to explain mathematics, or to be the substance of mathematics in its own right.
You can build it
Andrew Rader Hanson
you can build the fist into a exclamation point
Wheels within Wheels
J.L. Moultrie
She was convinced that I was in the throes of a mental breakdown
and when I asserted that I was not, she’d shut down completely.
Brittany Newell on Soft Core
Anna Dorn
With Soft Core the whole book poured out of me in a weird ecstatic gush; I like to mindlessly word-vomit first, take a break and drink some kratom, then return to the word doc and start editing in a slower, more thoughtful way, so that it kind of feels like sculpting.
Blame It on November
Chloe Wheeler
Why do I miss us at our worst?
You’re So Beautiful I Might
Jeffrey Hermann
You’re so beautiful I see that everything is beautiful. A mudslide. A wound. A dead raccoon.
Protandry
George Salis
Maybe, just maybe, it’s like that theory of the universe, a big bang followed by expansion until collapse, a big crunch, then a big bang again, ad infinitum, so that my curling, turtling pizzle will pop out again, pop in, pop out, poppet, an endless eon’s worth of self-fucking of a higher kind, a higher cruel.
Three Poems
Maria Giesbrecht
Best time to buy a bra / is right before the moon finishes / milking itself




