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April 30, 2024 | Nonfiction

Mattress

Mona Kirschner

It took three of us to get a king size mattress stuffed into the tiny service elevator, pushing our shoulders into it so it would finally give and bend. It sprung out when the doors opened, like a

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April 29, 2024 | Fiction

Advil

Melissa Boberg

C lives in a building that’s beautiful and tall, and that’s sort of how he is, too, but I hope

to God no one ever tells him that.

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April 28, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Parallel Brother

Mali Khan

Of course, I thought about these uncles. Even WhatsApp-d some of them when I remembered.

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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