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February 28, 2021 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Non, Je ne regrette rien

Virginia Konchan

... at Stereo, you never had to ask “where’s the love,” because it was everywhere, in everyone, even the atmosphere...

February 26, 2021 | Fiction

A Yellow Tulip

Nancy Freund

The moon came out, riding on a motorbike, his head hatted, silver-blue, attached.

February 26, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Shangyang Fang

"Utterance of a Folding Fan" and "Op. 64 in C#"

February 25, 2021 | Nonfiction

Rooms

Riley Manning

“We found the calf box,” she tells your grandmother on the phone. “Not a scratch on it. Yeah, we found it in what used to be the living room.” 

February 23, 2021 | Fiction

Eating Away From Others

Cameron Thomas Snyder

We compiled our snacks and made for the playhouse basement.

February 23, 2021 | Nonfiction

What It Means to Dream of A Thief

Jessica Ripka

The story has hit an obstacle or maybe a dead end. It’s not a dead end, exactly, but it is an overdrawn bank account.

February 22, 2021 | Poetry

Two Poems

Julia Edwards

"Peak Inertia" and "You don't know if you should laugh at my poems"

February 21, 2021 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

On a Layover in Brooklyn

Silas Jones

He had a Camel Blue, a glass of sweet white wine, just like last time. It’s about 20 degrees cooler than it was then. I think I am wearing the same outfit; shitty, baggy, innocuous jeans.

February 19, 2021 | Fiction

The Antagonizer

Gardner Mounce

Fuck you.

February 18, 2021 | Nonfiction

ode to the state that raised me, or: when people ask where I’m from and I tell them Jersey and they say oh I’m sorry and think it’s funny, I want to punch them in the throat

Laura Winberry

As a pack, my Korean-Italian-American cousins and I were little foul-mouthed figurines made of compressed carbon and steam. On their own, they knew how to stand.

February 17, 2021 | Poetry

Soda Fountain

Janelle Cordero

On my first job I worked for a woman named Jeanie who owned a soda fountain, thrift store, and tavern. I worked at the soda fountain fixing milk shakes and simple sandwiches for the few customers that

February 15, 2021 | Poetry

Our relationship as embrace b/w Icarus & light

Samantha Fain

the sun sees Icarus & tries to shift...

February 14, 2021 | Fiction

Winter Dance Party

Brett Biebel

I never kissed another man, but I danced for one once.

February 14, 2021 |

The Nest That Came with the Third-Floor Apartment

Taylor Kirby

We learned how to live together more slowly than we learned how to live with the swallows.

February 14, 2021 | Fiction

Baby Cakes

Jon Stuart Peterson

“Baby Cakes.” I don’t think she has ever called me that.

February 14, 2021 | Fiction

A Lesbian's Guide to Cave Exploration

Maggie Cooper

There is nothing, Lois says, gayer than spelunking.

February 11, 2021 | Fiction

Reign in Bliss

Crow Jonah Norlander

He wondered, "What if I never get out of the shower?" and just like that he never did.

February 11, 2021 | Nonfiction

Say It With Your Chest

Kara Knickerbocker

When I get home, back to this one bedroom I’ve bled, cried, and danced in, I Google what it means if you see a dead bird. I’m not superstitious, but I’ve seen at least five on my walk this evening.

February 10, 2021 | Poetry

Zoom Ballets

Ariana Kelly

I had someone once. He spoke the Queen’s English, lived in a house built by timber hewn from his property. We were layman lovers, easily able to make cracks about the poverty of the crescent moon but

February 10, 2021 | Nonfiction

Ambivalence

Emily Lake Hansen

Your greatest fear in life: to wind up like your mother. And yet, here you are, 34 and suddenly bisexual.

February 8, 2021 | Fiction

Today on Dagobah, Ep. 7: "Mud"

Josh Sippie

Being able to walk in a straight line is not something Yoda had ever taught himself to appreciate. The sidewalks on Coruscant, on Alderaan, even on Kashyyyk, they took the user where they wanted to go...

February 8, 2021 | Poetry

Ode to Cigarettes

Brett Hanley

I know in heaven they are unlimited and free...

February 7, 2021 | fucked up modern love essays

My Terrible Purpose

Unity

 Where was my pimp? My boss? My daddy? I wanted a man from a Lana Del Rey song. 

February 6, 2021 | Fiction

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February 4, 2021 | Nonfiction

Selections on Easter Pterodactyls

Josh Zimmerer

The term pterodactyl has fallen out of favor because it lacks specificity. Most fossil remains are discovered fractured, less than whole. At a certain point, all things begin to look the same if you take enough of their composition away.

February 4, 2021 | Poetry

The Winter Shed

Samantha Samakande

"Tight coils come / up floating in / my husband's peppermint..."

February 3, 2021 | Interview

A Blowjob from the 1970s & The Censorship of Disabled Writers

The Cyborg Jillian Weise

Bill Peace  12:49

If I gotta start explaining ableism...

Jillian Weise  12:51

I know, in the fricking hospital.

February 2, 2021 | Fiction

Quiet

Siel Ju

The crazy girls are the ones that won’t disappear.

February 2, 2021 | Poetry

Angel Costume

Audra Puchalski

We can't feel how fast we're falling...

February 1, 2021 | Fiction

Everyone Loves Us and We Do Not Die and We Never Sleep Alone

Haley Morton

Every day we both live.