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March 25, 2026 | Fiction

Billy Shoots Sun

Cole Shuherk

He unfolded his best plastic chair and sat it in the pool. He’d sweat and drink more liquor and point his gun at the ocean.

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March 24, 2026 | Fiction

The Long Way Home

Scott Keeney

“I should punch your lights out. But that wouldn’t do either of us much good would it?”

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March 23, 2026 | Fiction

MASSACRE AT FLOATER JUNCTION

Dodge Zelko

No one answered her when she asked where they were taking me. I'd heard of people being dumped in parking lots. I'd heard of people being flown to Texas, to fucking El Salvador, legal citizens with no practical recourse.

 

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March 22, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Zurich

E.T. Aragón

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During my last couple of years in Spain, things—how shall we say?—spun out of control. It was like getting tossed by one of those huge ferocious Northern Californian waves that tumbles you, holds

March 20, 2026 | Fiction

Dirty Martini

Kelsey Flaherty

Here I am on a Saturday night, preparing for another dreadful evening with a man my father handpicked

March 19, 2026 | Poetry

Bible Cyst

Cletus Crow

it explodes painfully

March 18, 2026 | Fiction

Cheryl Perkins’ Black Bob

Jack Skelley

It goes unsaid that this game is really about kissing and groping.

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