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September 25, 2026 | Nonfiction

Marty

Jane Anne Staw

If I tell you that my 76-year-old brother began using drugs when he was 14, you might guess what our relationship has been like over time.  And, if add that my parents always favored my brother,

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September 25, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

Retracing My Steps in the Blue Hour

Liv Golvin

On the anniversary of the worst day of my life I was finally able to let go of a burden I have been carrying for more than a year. I am free, I’m not fucking crazy, there is love in my heart, and sweet gentleness in my soul.

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September 24, 2026 | Poetry

Four Poems

PJ Lombardo

Spirals in the / Sky spray out eight billion cassette tapes / So anyone on any other planet might wit / Just how thin earthly love has withered.

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September 23, 2026 | Nonfiction

On the Use of Poison

Christos Komninos

She offered the poison on the tip of a spoon.

September 23, 2026 | Fiction

Hypnic Jerks

Zoë Rose

A couple months ago my mother and I had to dig up my grandmother's grave. I looked away from her face. My mother didn’t: her eye is gone, her skin is gone, and her mouth is a big hole.

September 22, 2026 | Poetry

THREE POEMS

Rachel Juan

I am trying to love the crook in my back.

 

September 22, 2026 | Fiction

Old Man and a Monk

Dylan Smith

Three months out of the year I get to file for unemployment. I swim, I paint, and I try not to fuck things up. I have a real tendency to fuck my life up.

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