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March 19, 2024 | Nonfiction

In the Psych Ward Having Deleted the Best Thing I’ve Ever Written

Tiffany Wright

On the drive from our apartment to the emergency room, you take Fullerton through DePaul’s campus. The silence between us makes sense, but without even your usual pop punk to pad it, it feels

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March 19, 2024 | Nonfiction

The Women

Justine Harrington

Lately, it seems like all the women I know are leaving their husbands for other women. I moved from the big city back to the small Southern town where I went to college, and they began to flock to me,

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March 18, 2024 | Poetry

3 Poems

Amaya Hopkins

Summer of Veal

It was the summer of veal,
and I tried to reach for my rifle
but bullets melted like ice in heat.

Glaring, shine on my head.
Always seconds from passing out, 
passing

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March 17, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Talking with Z Wasn’t Unpleasant

CR

The final weekend of January I boarded a plane to Seattle to see, for the first time, a man I had met on a kink website. Or, as I had considered multiple times over the last two months during which we

March 15, 2024 | Poetry

Re: Ziggurats

Ezra K.G.

When i stopped remote viewing my wife / we stopped being married

March 14, 2024 | Nonfiction

My Nina

Tamara Dragadze

But she is always here, always too strong to evaporate into some kind of hereto after.

March 13, 2024 | Fiction

Cinderella in Flames

René Bennett

I feel like God with dyspepsia. My soul is vibrating at ultra-high frequency. I want to leave my body. I want to throw up.

There’s makeup running down my face with sweat, but it somehow feels apt.

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