I'm Here to Punish You

Sarah Velk

Skaters are like theater kids with better outfits.

A Little Death

I want my gentlemen taken care of, kids nonexistent, my money on the table and it’s black on first spin.

An aggressive Doberman knocked Cindy up weeks later.

February 12, 2026 | Poetry

looking up at me with eyes like dogs
who’ve humped too many pillows
and now it’s time to pay the price

February 11, 2026 | Fiction

She feels her and this bartender, this boy, are doing sex theater. Romance theater. Everything theater.

February 10, 2026 | Nonfiction

Affection follows episodes of abuse

"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

I thought I was unhappy as a man. Turns out I was just unhappy…