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Without A Happy Ending
Sara Tabin
The diary didn’t have many entries, but it revealed how lonely Sarah had felt.
A List of Good Enough Things
Shreya Vikram
My happiest memories all involve an intense desire to be strangled.
Bodrum
C. R. Resetarits
I smile now, waiting, always waiting, for you to reappear and remember me ...
for E
Olivia Braley
My friends and I would see you on the streets and say you looked like a villain. Slicked back black hair, tall and thin, distrusting gaze, but handsome. All sinister swagger.
Fifteen Minutes
Nicolo Gentile
1985: the year of “high-risk” and Careless Whispers. His appearance was brief —lasting all of ten second— but there he was, following an interview between Debbie Harry and Nick Rhodes on the Palladium.
Love Letter in 2020
Cory Liang
Last Christmas, you asked for my latest address and sent a postcard all the way from Paris. There was a close-up shot of Hemingway’s face on the front. On the back, you wrote: “You deserve all the good in the world.” I took a picture of it but never sent anything back.
I Love First Dates
Marise Gaughan
One guy told me I didn’t look like my online photos while we sat al fresco in a bougie hotel in Venice. He smelled of vinegar. I ordered two crab sandwiches. I ate one and got the other to go.
JFK
Zoe Underhill
This diner has been here since 1949 but I am sure that no one has ever looked as beautiful as you do sitting on these red vinyl seats.
SB"F" 4 bird
Mukethe Kawinzi
FARMHAND LONGS FOR LOVE FROM ABOVE
Thought regaling twilight with porch-grown ukulele melodies would suffice to lure somefowl over but since experience
Throwback
Nora Lange
All the Lovesick attendees were gathered outside to listen to the event’s MC, but he was struggling to figure out how to turn on his mic.
My Love Don’t Cost A Thing
Elizabeth Brooks
The night before the Super Bowl, we were drunk in Miami after hours of non-stop tequila Sprites.
My Magic Pussy
Elizabeth Teets
My almost-ex was freaking out in the way only men with egos can.
the last time you wear a
L Scully
There’s a picture of you at queer prom, in the photo booth, faces alight with total bliss.
What Haunts Me
Molly Magid
The text said: Hey! I think I just saw you cross the street (I’m in the red Prius). How are you?
Real American Racehorse
Leon Hedstrom
I suppose I was in a conspiratorial mood when I told you that I don’t always feel like a man.
Time Lapse
Uzodinma Okehi
(Iowa City 1995)
What I think I want, is Inez . . . Fuck! Now it’s a blur. Drawing. Rather, a dream in which I’m drawing.
Talk About It
Jakky Bankong-Obi
the history of countries is the story of roaming. And maps are relatively new inventions in the human narrative
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.
Recent Books
Pregaming Grief
Danielle Chelosky
Is this new relationship self-sabotage in disguise, or is it the cure?
Backwardness
Garielle Lutz
Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Not be be missed!