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October 6, 2026 | Interview

Poppy Cockburn on the Internet, Lana Del Rey, and Her New Poetry Collection, Everytime I meet you feels like doom

Emma Burger

Posting feels sacrificial. Like giving something away. It’s an act of vulnerability, isn’t it? Sending something personal out into the unknown, with the possibility someone might see it, relate, make contact.

Poppy Cockburn on the Internet, Lana Del Rey, and Her New Poetry Collection, Everytime I meet you feels like doom photo
Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Skip The Flowers And Drive Straight Into The Ocean photo

October 6, 2026 | Fiction

Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Skip The Flowers And Drive Straight Into The Ocean

Dana Wall

While the lamb is roasting, I go to the bathroom and cut off some of my hair with the kitchen scissors.

Let No Man Put Asunder photo

October 5, 2026 | Fiction

Let No Man Put Asunder

Patrick Carella

It was the summer of 1977. Son of Sam was stalking young couples.

Cancer, Maybe photo

October 5, 2026 | Poetry

Cancer, Maybe

Era Pasquale

It’s evening already / and the vibes are so off / it isn’t even funny. 

October 4, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

The Love Boat

Niles Reddick

The nurse added that she hoped she had thwarted another outbreak of STDs, unlike their nursing home competitor in town.

October 2, 2026 | Fiction

I REPENT YOU

Maximiliano Guzmán

The unknown boy, that uninvited new friend, showed his freckled face, sang a cumbia with us, and drank from our glass. He became light in a blink.

October 2, 2026 | Poetry

Three Poems

Trevor Owen Jones

Days of Vagrant Youth  

We sit around drinking poison 
that’ll give half of us  
cancer  
             and the other, madness, 
mistaking ill euphoria for 
wisdom of the moment.  

We’re

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