June 2, 2023 | Fiction
Excerpt from 'Counterillumination'
Audrey Szasz
I have to believe that what I am writing — what I am living through — means something.
June 5, 2023 | Sports
Baseball Hybrid Poem
Chris Pellizzari
I tried to remember something my dad told me about Luis Aparicio after Ozzie Guillen made an error in a game in 1991.
June 5, 2023 | Nonfiction
Say You're Not Interested
Samantha Paige Rosen
Your date’s cologne smells like rancid wine, which should be a good enough reason to bail, but it’s only hour two and you’ve made a commitment.
June 4, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays
Premenstrual Love Letters
Yoon Chung
He doesn’t seem to think I’m a handful. I can tell by his texts.
June 1, 2023 | Fiction
NEW LIFE: LIMA, PERU
Siel Ju
The Utah girls were already asleep. Unlike me, they were going home in a few days.
June 1, 2023 | Sports
watching sports on tv
Forrest Muelrath
The Marathon was born out of a legend about a fifth-century Greek messenger named Philippides who ran 26.2 miles without stopping to deliver a message that the Greeks had defeated the Persians in battle.
Recent Books
Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)
Elizabeth Ellen
"It captures all the doubts, giddiness, confessional streaks, blabbiness, self-alarms, rationalizations, feigned equipoise, and instantly breakable resolves of a person freshly infatuated and likely in love." -anonymous writer friend
Nudes
Elle Nash
“Transgressive and immediate: you feel these stories shoot through and wrap around you.”
- Kyle F. Williams, Full Stop Magazine
Worsted
Garielle Lutz
“Lutz’s work is a marvel of the possibilities of language. Each of her sentences is an intricately crafted thing, deeply complex yet crystalline in its clarity . . . her command of each and every word remains supreme.”
--Mira Braneck, The Paris Review Daily
Garielle Lutz is the author of The Complete Gary Lutz, among other books.
