November 5, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays
This is a Not Love Letter: My Response to Unrequited Confessions
T.A. Morche
This isn’t the first time someone I considered a friend has confessed their love for me.
November 3, 2023 | Book Review
Booze, Bullshit & Buttfucking: A Review
Jay Velarde
Booze, Bullshit & Buttfucking is one of those books you can only describe with negative adjectives, despite your enjoyment of it. It’s quick and easy and invigorating in the way stimulants often
November 2, 2023 | Poetry
PHILOSOPHICAL ACTIVITY
Brittany Adames
I think I’ve lost the practiced falseness of what it means
to be impossibly young. The fingernail moon
hangs over the welt on my goosepimpled thigh. Where
does the world go when not inside me?
This Literary World
Uzo vs Kev
“Personally, not a huge fan of the direction your magazine has gone in.”
The Worst Thing About Me
Aiden “A.J.” Brown
I am supposed to call myself a survivor, but honestly I don’t think surviving is what I’ve been doing.
The Equinox
Läilä Örken
Storm clouds dangle from the sky, the colour and consistency of wet cotton. Way back in the nineties, when long plastic sausages of cotton discs were a luxury that only the cornucopian West could
I LOVE FUNYUNS! + FLYING DILDO
Steve Fellner
I LOVE FUNYUNS!
I’m bewildered.
Those onion-flavored,
puffed up rings always
the last offering of the
vending machine.
They are waiting on
my gentle tearing.
PepsiCo is more
Incontrovertible Proof that You Are an Asshole
Michael Schoch
I would talk to the doll, then it would talk back to me, reflecting me to myself. And then I’d adjust my behavior accordingly. And, eventually, become a better, less annoying person. It’s kind of genius in a way?
Etymologies
Bud Jennings
Under a contrived knit brow, his eyes aimlessly drifted among a thicket of words, until they happened to stop on depling, noun, German to Middle English, a child born to older parents, and thus he found a new label for himself, more succinct than his mother’s change-of-life baby and less piercing than faggot, which Joey Novakis and his friends would blurt as they passed him in the school hallways.
Transcript of a Hypothetical TikTok Cooking Video
Liam E.T. Johnson
Okay guys today I'm going to be making you one of my favorite dishes from childhood with a couple of my own little twists. My mom used to make this all the time and I just love it. It's suuuper
There Was Something Wrong With That Sky
Rita Taryan
While I sucked my husband’s penis he gaped at the sky, to which he exclaimed, “That’s the most orange orange I have ever seen!”
Self-Love is an Act of War
Toby McCasker
A furious hellhound runs at her. Katja kicks this final test away. Lashes a heel into the beast’s sternum. And she feels nothing. Numbed somehow inside her phalanx of a thousand suns. Only rags and ragged breathing, one of her eyes damaged red to melting: She feels nothing.
Julia Fox Isn't A Writer & other poems
Elizabeth Ellen
I hadn’t notified Interview magazine abt it
I hadn’t tweeted abt it either
I wasn’t post alt lit
Or a genius
The Girl Who poems
Molly Zhu
The Girl Who Loves to Clean
The girl had a messy childhood. It was littered with loud noises and tons of shouting. Sometimes these were happy sounds: the scream of excitement tumbling down the
The Director’s Girlfriend
Callie Zucker
You were familiar with this posture, of a girl waiting for someone to notice her not notice them.
Anatomy of a Ruined Wingspan
John Madera
There are times when you just want to go up to no one in particular, and say, “Fuck you and the nutsack that held nightmare-you for x amount of time,” even if, and perhaps especially when, the eventual target is your own face.
To Play Younger
Elizabeth Burch-Hudson
- A well to do woman hosts an orgy that gets gate crashed by a vanilla couple (I just want to be included).
- A boy is seduced by his ex-girlfriend’s hot mom on the Fourth of July (I’m facing my fear of MILFs).
The Cimmerians (look it up)
Taylor Napolsky
The
Idol said
Taking risks is the most important
Thing an artist can do
Bleed the girl out
Emmeline Clein
She wears those sharp button downs, tucked into pants with riding boots, and a blunt bob. Sometimes, even, a tie. Knotting, unknotting, re-knotting in the smudged dorm mirror, how many tries does it take to get right?
Mother Out of Time
Emma Burger
The first fries I had when I was a kid weren’t from McDonald’s but from The Odeon.
Tamara MC in Conversation with Athena Dixon, author of The Loneliness Files
Tamara MC, Ph.D.
What does a lifetime of loneliness look like, feel like in the body? Athena Dixon examines this question in her second book, The Loneliness Files, published by Tin House, and edited by one of my
Angel
Cameron Darc
The first man is the only one that kills you.
—COLETTE, La Naissance du Jour
Who is Angel? Who am I.
Have you ever loved a mirror?
Laughed, on suicide watch, until Kool-Aid spilled
Jacko Is Wacko Is Us
Jon Doughboy
Is my dick the one getting off in a peanut can?
NOTES FROM THE BLOOD FACTORY, VOL ONE: SETTING UP THE BUTCHER SHOP
Frank Reardon
What most people don’t know is that most of your town butchers are on some kind of pill, powder, or liquid, to get them through the day.