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January 15, 2026 | Nonfiction

Writers' Workshop II

Emma Burger

Freshly thirty and newly heartbroken, the second class of our writers' workshop found me at a very midlife crisis time in my life. On Monday, things ended with the man I thought I might

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January 15, 2026 | Fiction

We Sell Dreams Here, After All

Alysa Levi-D'Ancona

“You want to go to Heaven with me tonight?” Juniper delicately dropped one of the pieces of sandwich into her mouth.

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January 14, 2026 | Fiction

A Brief History Of My Failures With Women (an excerpt)

Alexander Hackett

The universe seemed filled with women, aside from my brother and I it was all women and they did everything and chatted amiably amongst themselves,

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January 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

TRANSITIONING AND SOCIAL POSSIBILITY

Robin Arble

I couldn’t help feeling they abandoned me in our womanhood when it wasn’t their stop.

January 12, 2026 | Fiction

Breast Envy

Cameron Darc

The cow udder, Freud wrote, was in its form a penis and in its nature a breast, and therefore the intermediary between penis and breast. The blowjob was therefore the image of innocence.

January 11, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Clive and Worm in Winter

Jacob Potash

I arrived to England in a puddle of mortal pain caused by a breakup.

January 9, 2026 | Fiction

Baby Bumps

Dominique Wilson

We had enough coke on us to keep the entire party going until sunrise, and when the late arrivals started trickling in, we got practical.

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