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July 22, 2026 | Poetry

Three Poems

Cletus Crow

i don't own a time machine / so here i am / at waffle house at 2:13 a.m. / gargling syrup like listerine

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July 20, 2026 | Book Review

Walking Across America with Sean Thor Conroe

Emma Burger

In the years since my own trip, at 23, I’ve grown generally more wary of people. Have developed a much needed cynicism when it comes to random acts of generosity.

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July 20, 2026 | Fiction, Nonfiction

Pure Protein

Iryna Somkina

I hadn’t written a line of prose in years. I was a corporate machine running on fumes, yet this girl in a G-string was playing the oracle.

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July 19, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Your Therapist Calls You Codependent

Jade McGregor

Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder instructs you to maintain boundaries

July 17, 2026 | Fiction

Physical Confirmation

Lys Granier

My task is to record, photograph and label every item the unclaimed dead leave behind. Each file arrives in a brown envelope stamped Housing Bureau - Unclaimed. The instructions are clear: take nothing, feel nothing, sign all pages.

July 16, 2026 |

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHELSEA MARTIN

Elizabeth Ellen & friends

I felt really supported and loved when Chelsea cut her bangs too.

July 16, 2026 | Nonfiction

Oxygen Bar, Vegas, 2016

Chelsea Martin, Chloe Caldwell, Elizabeth Ellen

“We should be making deals,” Chloe said.

“Healthy competition,” I said.

“I don’t have any Twitter followers,” I said

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