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May 31, 2020 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Stay With Me, Rock My World

Hurley Winkler

I’d learned from Rock of Love that a diabetic’s rollercoaster blood sugar is a constant interruptor at best.

May 31, 2020 |

Making Weight (pt. 4)

Denny Connolly

Previously on...
Part 3  ||  Part 2  ||  Part 1  ||  Prologue

 

 

May 29, 2020 | Fiction

Today on Dagobah, Ep. 5: "Art"

Josh Sippie

The top of Yoda’s house looked like it had been splattered with molded yogurt. There was an allure to it. Like, had he intended to paint it this odd assortment of colors, he would be proud of it.

May 29, 2020 | Poetry

re-learning life at the end of May

Haley Winkle

last month, every
robin I saw looked
like it wanted to fight

May 28, 2020 | Fiction

Moon Wishes

Flo Au

In her dance, Chang’e waves her sleeves to disperse the surrounding mist.

May 28, 2020 | Poetry

The Pros & Cons of Breaking Up with a Boyfriend while He’s at Sea

Tyler Friend

Your boyfriend was the first...

May 27, 2020 | Poetry

Joe Rogan

Elizabeth Ellen

 (Netflix is the opiate of the people!)

May 27, 2020 | Fiction

Nudes Story

Sean Thor Conroe

He couldn’t yet do the thing he’d learned to, of establishing some authority by playfully, sweetly infantilizing her. By appealing to the equalizing, mutual infantilization of early love baby talk.

May 27, 2020 | Poetry

4 poems 

Madison Langston

when i’m

on coke i feel like i’m

in cruel intentions but

i have the personality

of winona ryder in

girl, interrupted

May 26, 2020 | Fiction

Final Exam

Amy Braziller

NO BOOKS, NOTES, OR ELECTRONIC DEVICES ALLOWED.

May 26, 2020 | Poetry

The Many Panics of This Century

Ansley Clark

Deep inside some problem of self-perception / a face believes...

May 25, 2020 | Fiction

The Town Dump

Sam Price

I was at a party, one of those parties where everyone is drinking heavily, like they are trying to accomplish something. Me, I was trying to calm my nerves. I don’t know what anyone else’s end goal

May 25, 2020 | Nonfiction

Me Wrapped Up, In 25 Feet

Jeanene Harlick

I was the only person in my family this level of depravity happened to.

May 24, 2020 | fucked up modern love essays

Traces

Hailey Danielle

I followed him up the stairs up to his apartment and once inside he made parachutes, wrapping loose MDMA in tissue paper.

May 22, 2020 | Poetry

Pop

Hadiyyah Kuma

If I forget to night shift my mac it’s tragic...

May 22, 2020 | Nonfiction

Red Hands

Barrett Bowlin

No cheating; you've got to keep your fingers touching my fingers. Good. Remember to keep your hands flat. Flat and steady and ready.

May 21, 2020 | Nonfiction

Ex-Ray

Amy V. Blakemore

When I broke up with you, I thought you might kill me, and somehow, I was bored.

May 20, 2020 | Fiction

Phil and Apolline

Michael Place

What does it mean to believe?

May 20, 2020 | Poetry

(R)ejaculation (Tumblr Edit)

Ben Kline

Is your smut amateur enough...

May 19, 2020 | Poetry

2 Self-Portrait Poems

Prince Bush

The pterodactyl’s crimson, triangular-tailed head,
And the escalator-like galaxy open up...

May 18, 2020 | Poetry

To the Bridge

Adam Grabowski

We can stand here / on the corner, arguing... 

May 18, 2020 | Fiction

Distant Barking Dogs

Joshua Bohnsack

The first dog barks. Second dog. First dog. Third dog joins in. Then a fourth. Then a cacophony and I lose track of the dogs barking in a distance, down the quiet street where my father and I have nothing left to say to one another. 

May 17, 2020 |

A Friday Night

Michael Seymour Blake

May 17, 2020 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Guided Meditation and Relaxation

Andrew Bomback

Xenia and I had been cheating on each other with the same woman for about three months

May 15, 2020 | Poetry

The Romans

Richie Hofmann

It doesn’t take long to find a new lover...

May 14, 2020 | Nonfiction

Another Old Man at the Bridge

Sarah Viren

You will read my restrained but subtly brutal birth story and finally recognize that we who give birth are dauntless soldiers returning to the fight and we are also the old men ignoring the bombs because we have animals at home we love too much to go on and we have never felt more alive than we do right now.

May 13, 2020 | Fiction

Getaway

Jeffrey S. Chapman

When my wife drives off without me, my first thought is that she must have made a mistake.

May 12, 2020 | Poetry

Two Poems

Charles Kell

"Tim" and "Pear Tree"

May 11, 2020 | Poetry

Through Thick Glass

Alexandria Hall

After that, I gave up / on finding a good doctor...

May 10, 2020 |

Flutter & Buzz

Sara Harvey