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August 26, 2026 | Poetry

Bryce,

Nicholas Wilder Forman

I keep my teeth sharp / cus plush is still abundant // it’s a good reason to keep going, / biting the seam off jackets // biting the states off one by one

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People’s Champion: A Meditation photo

August 25, 2026 | Nonfiction

People’s Champion: A Meditation

Faith Palermo

Käärijä doesn’t win Eurovision. We both know this and don’t. Instead, the album brings us to a body broken and weary. Käärijä is willing to do anything, joints displacing themselves to the beat.

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August 24, 2026 | Poetry

Five poems

Eva Alter

I am motion-sick with / a divination-death glimpse / of a carnival Earth

 

Knights of Sorrowful Profiles: Adventures
in the World of Online Dating photo

August 23, 2026 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Knights of Sorrowful Profiles: Adventures in the World of Online Dating

Pia Rubia

"My wife and I are looking for a third partner. I was thinking, maybe…" — here he gave a small cough, his speech turning slurred and hard to follow.

August 21, 2026 | Poetry

Mutual Masturbation

Billy Lambent & Ginger Jones

Fearless, sweet boy, / your courage is not lost. / I am uncontainable / ​​​​by nature too. 

August 21, 2026 | Fiction

Through Donkey Jaw

Dickie

This was only a few months after I lost my husband, and much of that time is a blur. I still felt as if there was something between me and the world. In some lights it was a window, in others a mirror.

August 20, 2026 | Fiction

FLGL8

Ursula Carroll

He looked like the kind of person who fed the pigeons in the park, and he charged $44.99 per hour to come to my home and hurt me. I scheduled him for the following Thursday.

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

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Backwardness

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Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks!