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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.

 

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April 19, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Pink, Elephant

Kate Xu

There was a guy called PixelMoth13 on a late-night forum saying, “Love is a wound that repeatedly tears and stitches itself back together.” I clicked like.

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April 17, 2026 | Poetry

Six Poems

Cash Compson

She lives in Brooklyn, so I go to Brooklyn.

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April 16, 2026 | Poetry

The night you changed the sheets

Elizabeth A.

When I got back to your room, my makeup gone, wet strands of hair sticking to my back,

April 15, 2026 | Fiction

Mill Boys

William Byer

“We’re not sex workers, are we?” Grady asks one night while we’re watching Bake-Off on the sofa.

April 14, 2026 | Fiction

Palm Springs

Judy Thorn

When I came of age, the rules were a little different. We were all facing the same battle back then, so it didn’t matter as much what labels we used for each other.

April 13, 2026 | Nonfiction

Five Bucks

Sylvia Math

Rude Guy tortured me. I would go over to his house in ridiculously slutty outfits, and he would only open his door a crack, and give me a poetry quiz. Then he would let me in, but still not fuck me!

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