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April 25, 2026 | Poetry

Jurassic Park

Talia Vyadro

if i tally it
every time
my tongue finds cherry

do you still
pull your thumb down my lip
sweet surrender

in the other city
the social concepts that killed me here
stay peripheral 

 

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April 24, 2026 | Book Review

Subterranean and Sublime: What William H. Gass' 'The Tunnel' Tells Us

Luke Shuffield

It’s abundantly clear that Gass sweat blood over this novel, every word chosen with the utmost care, a master at work.

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April 23, 2026 | Poetry

I Regret Inventing The Cruelest Month 

Peter Vack

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April 22, 2026 | Fiction

The Fetishist

Jennifer Ostopovich

She decides that maybe being an object of consumption isn’t so bad. She even begins to enjoy the attention. Becomes aroused by the men’s overt enthusiasm for her. She is an edible woman, dolce, delectable; something to be devoured.

April 22, 2026 | Sports

THE PERCEPTION OF VALUE: HARTBEATS AND CANDLELIGHT

Emanuel Brown

In the old gym, value revealed itself in nontraditional ways.

April 21, 2026 | Fiction

Girls on Film

Alyx Zella

Spit flew from the man's mouth when he spoke, if he spoke.

April 20, 2026 | Nonfiction

Dottie After Dark

Jillian Luft

I’m in the habit of befriending slightly older women. Maternal figures leading bohemian lives within suburban parameters. Seekers abandoned in childhood by dead(beat) moms. Motherless daughters can sniff out other motherless daughters. We wear our stale deprivation like a discontinued perfume.

 

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Her Lesser Work

Elizabeth Ellen

"[Her Lesser Work] is a collection of mordant and formally inventive stories circling themes of, let’s say, desire and escape within repressive structures."

      -Walker Caplan, Literary Hub