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December 3, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

The Curious Case of Dumbledore, Transplants, and God

Ethan Kahana

When reciting the Ten Plagues in Hebrew, we customarily dip our knives into our wine glass for each plague and set a drop of wine on our dinner plate.

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December 1, 2023 | Fiction

Dead Man Brilliant

K Hank Jost

There’s not a thought in the throb. Not an inkling in the coppery clatter of his mouth. There’s only the turn. Only the fist: fast, everything behind it.

Territory photo

November 30, 2023 | Fiction

Territory

Franz Jørgen Neumann

She thought he was going to kill her this time, but that was one of the unspoken rules: no killing each other. Also: no kitchen knives, no purpose-built weapons of any kind. No screaming, either. Neighbors, the police—they wouldn’t understand.

A Nice Memory photo

November 29, 2023 | Fiction

A Nice Memory

Jane Liddle

My mother’s screams woke me up.

November 28, 2023 | Poetry

2 Poems

Nathaniel Duggan

I have come to teach you love / and the solitude that comes / with ultimate strength.

November 27, 2023 | Fiction

The Biggest Ball In the World

Robert McCready

In late July, in the mid-nineties, I begged Mom and her fiancé Paul to buy me a big ball at Roses department store.

November 26, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

I Love You, Showboat, and I Decline: Healing from Abuse in the Wild West

Amanda Bloom

Showboat said he'd like to take me out sometime. I asked why.

“Because I think you’re attractive, and so we can hang out somewhere other than the coffee trailer,” he said.

It was October, ten

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