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April 10, 2025 | Fiction

Everything Passes

Pranavesh Subramanian

As the day proceeds, we end up chatting. I tell the man with the snowflake tattoo: I thought you were in a biker gang but you’re all just working on Excel. 

April 8, 2025 | Fiction

Like a Rotisserie Chicken from Costco

Jean Marie Hackett

Let’s be clear:

You destroy things.

April 8, 2025 | Fiction

Like a Rotisserie Chicken from Costco

Jean Marie Hackett

Let’s be clear:

You destroy things.

April 4, 2025 | Fiction

A Letter I Hope You Don’t Write, Son

Garima Chhikara

Do you think I won’t understand because I never finished school?

 

April 4, 2025 | Fiction

A Letter I Hope You Don’t Write, Son

Garima Chhikara

Do you think I won’t understand because I never finished school?

 

April 3, 2025 | Fiction

Fantasy Football

Arcadia Molinas

Only the best of girls get to play fantasy football and today, that’s me.

April 3, 2025 | Fiction

Fantasy Football

Arcadia Molinas

Only the best of girls get to play fantasy football and today, that’s me.

April 2, 2025 | Fiction

Perceived

Andy Tran

But she didn’t delete the video. Instead, she posted it on TikTok.

April 2, 2025 | Fiction

Perceived

Andy Tran

But she didn’t delete the video. Instead, she posted it on TikTok.

March 31, 2025 | Fiction

Next Level Unlocked

Mia Risher

Clem wasn’t worried that Joshua would be a catfish.

March 31, 2025 | Fiction

Next Level Unlocked

Mia Risher

Clem wasn’t worried that Joshua would be a catfish.

March 26, 2025 | Fiction

Tonight

Waseem Mainuddin

Harry forgot the rest of last night’s monologue, and just saw the crowd laughing. Applause was okay if it was accompanied by laughter, he just didn’t want to ask for claps. But laughs? In this world, people need to laugh.

March 26, 2025 | Fiction

Tonight

Waseem Mainuddin

Harry forgot the rest of last night’s monologue, and just saw the crowd laughing. Applause was okay if it was accompanied by laughter, he just didn’t want to ask for claps. But laughs? In this world, people need to laugh.

March 20, 2025 | Fiction

The Bright African Son

Ava Sophia Brown

I extended my time at the Hotel de Paris to fall into the bad habit of making love to the maid. And to recover and regain my strength, as my flu-ish bug was stubborn and I feared being on the road for too long with it.

March 20, 2025 | Fiction

The Bright African Son

Ava Sophia Brown

I extended my time at the Hotel de Paris to fall into the bad habit of making love to the maid. And to recover and regain my strength, as my flu-ish bug was stubborn and I feared being on the road for too long with it.

March 19, 2025 | Fiction

Groan

Joseph Pfister

When they ask you how your massage went, the first thing out of your mouth is a confession.

March 19, 2025 | Fiction

Groan

Joseph Pfister

When they ask you how your massage went, the first thing out of your mouth is a confession.

March 17, 2025 | Fiction

Thrashing: elevated spectral entropy of local behavior under conditions of global pseudospectral tightening

Josh Lovins

The idea behind this silencing was that new views might have an easier time taking hold if the old one weren't always barging into the fish schools and stamping on the new view's seeds before the seeds had latched. 

March 17, 2025 | Fiction

Thrashing: elevated spectral entropy of local behavior under conditions of global pseudospectral tightening

Josh Lovins

The idea behind this silencing was that new views might have an easier time taking hold if the old one weren't always barging into the fish schools and stamping on the new view's seeds before the seeds had latched. 

March 14, 2025 | Fiction

Plant Hospital

Elizabeth Ellen

I think HH resented me for making him feel pedestrian, a cliché to himself; the male artist requesting a sort of self-censorship of the female artist on his behalf. (Image is everything and/but he wanted to control his; I had no right to it, to my version of it/him, in his male mind.)

March 14, 2025 | Fiction

Plant Hospital

Elizabeth Ellen

I think HH resented me for making him feel pedestrian, a cliché to himself; the male artist requesting a sort of self-censorship of the female artist on his behalf. (Image is everything and/but he wanted to control his; I had no right to it, to my version of it/him, in his male mind.)

March 13, 2025 | Fiction

Engineer

Audrey Lee

I wondered if ingenue had any etymological roots to engineer in Russian, which sounds the same as ingenue in English, and also wondered if Mikhail would sleep next to me again if I asked him to.

March 13, 2025 | Fiction

Engineer

Audrey Lee

I wondered if ingenue had any etymological roots to engineer in Russian, which sounds the same as ingenue in English, and also wondered if Mikhail would sleep next to me again if I asked him to.

March 12, 2025 | Fiction

In Real Life

Chris Wu

Finally she told him she was feeling the same way, but that she didn’t have the words for it. Just the emoji of the face with only eyes and nothing else.

March 12, 2025 | Fiction

In Real Life

Chris Wu

Finally she told him she was feeling the same way, but that she didn’t have the words for it. Just the emoji of the face with only eyes and nothing else.

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Exit, Carefully

Elizabeth Ellen

"I loved reading Exit, Carefully. It’s unusual, and in my opinion exciting, to publish a play without previously receiving a major production."

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