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October 25, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Joseph and the Hot Tub Factory

Emma Estrada

Joseph was my internship advisor at a public access TV station in Berkeley

Joseph and the Hot Tub Factory photo
Highway Rosary photo

October 24, 2026 | Fiction

Highway Rosary

Jenna Obeid Mackenroth

This party is great, Maria, it’s really something special. You said this to our host as if she were our friend. Really, we’d known Maria for fifteen minutes and you already wanted to get into bed with her. You wanted a ménage à trois. This sounded stupid and French, but I wanted to get in bed with her too. Though my version of events wouldn’t involve you.

Birdsong photo

October 23, 2026 | Fiction

Birdsong

Ella Slater

            On the rare occasion that I left the house – to buy Heinz ravioli and oranges for myself

Not Strong, Definitely Not Cool photo

October 23, 2026 | Fiction

Not Strong, Definitely Not Cool

Robert Gibbons

I felt pitiful writing.

October 23, 2026 | Poetry

Two Poems

Chuck McKeever

What distances between / Intent and flesh, a life / Beyond each brazen vow: / If only swords could be drawn / Against every problem

October 22, 2026 | Nonfiction

Dove Bars and Madame Ava

Hannah Sward

“Quality takes money,” she said.

October 21, 2026 | Nonfiction

Ghosting in the Age of Love-Bombing

Imge Tekniker

Dancing had always been my weapon. I don’t let myself think.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

                      -Walker Caplan, Lithub