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March 17, 2025 | Fiction

Thrashing: elevated spectral entropy of local behavior under conditions of global pseudospectral tightening

Josh Lovins

The idea behind this silencing was that new views might have an easier time taking hold if the old one weren't always barging into the fish schools and stamping on the new view's seeds before the seeds had latched. 

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A Poem That Isn't a Poem but Rather an Essay About Women Who Love Patrick Bateman photo

March 17, 2025 | Poetry

A Poem That Isn't a Poem but Rather an Essay About Women Who Love Patrick Bateman

Sofija Popovska

in the mirror the face you see yourself | I’m so fucking good at this | the eye is an aleph and every place is you

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March 16, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Sojourn, So Joy!

Gulen Celik

The winding roads were scattered with sneakily merging lanes and work-ahead signs. This would have set my head in a whirl if I weren't driving. We spotted sage, turquoise, and navy blue hues on our

Plant Hospital photo

March 14, 2025 | Fiction

Plant Hospital

Elizabeth Ellen

I think HH resented me for making him feel pedestrian, a cliché to himself; the male artist requesting a sort of self-censorship of the female artist on his behalf. (Image is everything and/but he wanted to control his; I had no right to it, to my version of it/him, in his male mind.)

March 14, 2025 |

Une Soirée avec Beckett

Gadfly

A part whore/part homely crowd crowdpleaser 

March 13, 2025 |

Q&A with Wilson Koewing

Lisa Marie Zapata

Delve a little deeper into the mind of author Wilson Koewing

March 13, 2025 | Fiction

Engineer

Audrey Lee

I wondered if ingenue had any etymological roots to engineer in Russian, which sounds the same as ingenue in English, and also wondered if Mikhail would sleep next to me again if I asked him to.

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