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July 18, 2025 | Fiction

Dust

Katie Haley

Three hits and down I went. Into the floor. Puddled and leaking through the downstairs neighbor’s ceiling.

Dust photo
A Pile of Clothes photo

July 17, 2025 | Fiction

A Pile of Clothes

Greg Gerke

I feel too sorry, I’m too tired, and though I desperately want to change my life, I’m not in a position to, which is to say I’ve taken up the position of defending my nondefendable position. Position underneath position.

Spectacular Spiritual Game photo

July 16, 2025 | Poetry Comics

Spectacular Spiritual Game

Uzodinma Okehi

Flung like emotions, tilting to night . . .

Fucking nothing photo

July 15, 2025 | Poetry

Fucking nothing

Katie Frank

Sex is the opposite of being a novelist, and I would rather live between them.

July 14, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Nick Courtright

Being an artist is just another phase, / like a kid who eats the glue sticks

July 13, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

What I Learned About Love at an Orgy

Loren Kleinman

“We come here once a month,” the woman added. “To spice things up.”

July 11, 2025 | Poetry

In My Baddie Era

Mary St. Jean

Maybe next era I’ll get to experience love.

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

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

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)

Elizabeth Ellen

"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc."   -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz