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June 23, 2025 | Nonfiction

I Went to Finn Wolfhard’s Listening Party & All I Got Was Hope

Ashley D. Escobar

Part of making art is religiously making as much as you can when creatively inclined and then shaping what’s there.

June 23, 2025 | Poetry

Drunk In Chinatown

Casper Kelly

We're asked to think about examples of unconscious bias and I think about the guy who goes to

Heaven but it's Chinese.

June 22, 2025 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Miami Mistress

Kimberly Nicole

            If Miami were a person, she would have veneers from the same dentist who does her Botox

June 20, 2025 | Fiction

A Few Words about My Son

David Samuel Levinson

Because isn’t that the true nature of love, protecting each other from our wickedest parts?

June 19, 2025 | Interview

The Dollification Letters: Sexy Exchanges Between Silicone God and Myth Lab

Victoria Brooks and Jack Skelley

Victoria Brooks is the author of Silicone God (MOIST Books/House of Vlad) a queer sci-fi novel. Jack Skelley is author of The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker (Semiotext(e)), and Myth Lab: Theories of

June 18, 2025 | Nonfiction

the Doors of Perception

Jennifer Ostopovich

Tina joins our class mid semester. Instantly, I dig her aura. She shares the relaxed gait and slow drawl of the local stoners. She wears her dark hair flat and parted down the middle and has an

June 17, 2025 | Fiction

What Is the Moon Called?

Michael Robert Liska

The moon men decided to come to Earth because they didn’t like the way the Earth people were always staring at them. Whenever they looked up at that enormous blue orb through their telescope, the

June 16, 2025 | Poetry

Midnight In The Amazon Company Town

Nicola Maye Goldberg

Last spring was the last spring.

June 16, 2025 | Fiction

McDonald’s

Nick Dove

Take another fry to further the feeling.

June 15, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Are Three Cats Too Many for a Single Man to Own?

Samantha Zielinski

Over coffee, he told me he thought I dumped him last time because we had sex too soon.

June 13, 2025 | Fiction

Bad Dog

Adeline Swartzendruber

If I was a dog, I wouldn't be responsible for my own life.

June 12, 2025 | Poetry

wouldn’t that be funny ha ha ha

Michael Washington

Neither a drop of white wine into the danube canal, nor a gunshot through the roof of my mouth, but something in between

June 11, 2025 |

Two Poems

Sofija Popovska

On the lawn, sprinklers bend the light with no greater purpose

June 10, 2025 | Fiction

Privacy Fence

Austin Blaze

It’s got good bones, everyone kept telling us. Who knows.

June 10, 2025 | Book Review

“YOUR VOICE INSIDE ME LIKE BEATING WINGS”: A REVIEW OF IAN PENMAN’S FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS

Liam Shanahan

448.

The East German dramaturge Heiner Müller adopted Brecht’s notion of Kopien (German for ‘copying’ or ‘sampling’), the practice of regarding texts by others as material to be used, imitated,

June 9, 2025 | Fiction

Fablegun Construction

Drew Mosman

I see them right there plain as day, two-dimensional prints, sacred geometry, my life is full of meaning.

June 8, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Umbilical Rights to Sunday Rites

B.J.Y.

Her umbilical right to intimacy makes me wonder if I ever left the womb.

June 6, 2025 |

[bused in michigan winters, I believed the honesty of strangers]

J.L. Moultrie

no one can reach me you stopped drinking mined former awe

June 5, 2025 | Nonfiction

Failure to Disappear

Faryal Rashid

I was convinced I would die. A lone cig, maybe three gin spritzes, benzodiazepining into extinction. Ativan.

June 4, 2025 | Book Review

“Fuck the Future, Join the Freak Circus”: A Review of Jessamyn Violet’s Venice Peach

Melissa Pleckham

As weird and wild and beautiful and filthy as Venice Beach itself, Jessamyn Violet's new novel, Venice Peach, has everything I want in books about Los Angeles: Beautiful imagery, characters that are

June 3, 2025 | Poetry

the head of the mule deer in your father's den was a gift from his cousin

Eric Subpar

I am more deserving of your love than he is. My heart beats twice the size of others. 

June 2, 2025 | Nonfiction

Regretting the Times I’ve Watched Hot Tub Time Machine: Why a 2010s “Dick Flick” Always Fucks Me Up

Art Tavana

“When we were young, we had momentum. We were winning. We were best friends. Everybody seemed to care more. Everything seemed to matter more back then.”

~ Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

 

On

June 1, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays

Negotiations

Rachel Young

The pain reminds me: I am here. I am real. I matter.​​​​​​​