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October 8, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Angel

Cameron Darc

The first man is the only one that kills you.

—COLETTE, La Naissance du Jour

 

Who is Angel? Who am I.

Have you ever loved a mirror?

Laughed, on suicide watch, until Kool-Aid spilled

October 5, 2023 | Nonfiction

NOTES FROM THE BLOOD FACTORY, VOL ONE: SETTING UP THE BUTCHER SHOP

Frank Reardon

What most people don’t know is that most of your town butchers are on some kind of pill, powder, or liquid, to get them through the day. 

October 1, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

The Anti-Vegas Vegas Blues

John Yohe







 





I

 

am the only man to come to Las Vegas w/an ex-gf and not fuck her—arriving two nights early on my own to hike up in

September 26, 2023 | Nonfiction

Lectio Divina

Will Goodwin

Everyone worries about mind control.

September 24, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Molly and I Always Went To the Fancy Taco Bell in East Waterbury Instead of the Shitty One Downtown

Cash Compson

The summer she was without anyone

and I had just left the other girl

in Jersey City,

Molly and I kissed at her house. We were adults

who lived with our parents. She seemed like

September 22, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

For Jodi

E.B. Griffin

He was too poor to erect an everlasting monument in her likeness, all he could afford were words.  

September 21, 2023 | Nonfiction

No Saint, No Martyr

Gabriel Hart

I’m trying to do this story to get Kim’s feelings out there, but there seems to be a lot of secrecy and rumors about her death as if people are ashamed of how she died instead of why she died…

September 17, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Waiting Through the Ones Who Came After You

Ella Schmidt

That was my youth: I developed a sickness, a ruinous crush on the man at the filling station

September 13, 2023 | Nonfiction

Rejecting Beauty Like Nico and Baudelaire

Vanessa Aricco

We chased the tail laid before us. Scratching and sniffing our way to pain. We took turns leaving consciousness for a few seconds.

September 11, 2023 | Nonfiction

As the World Echoes

Laine Derr

I was stationed in Osh, a forty minute flight south of the capital. I had

a decent sized apartment

September 10, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

You're Not in Love You're Just High

Lilly Grainger

1. A bottle of orange wine – half a packet of cigarettes.

2. You caught at the bar the space so crowded that people were practically caught under your armpits – grinning nervously, two pina coladas in hand.

3. A kitchen dance – or two.

4. Luther Vandross.

September 5, 2023 | Nonfiction

Spotted

Reilly Tuesday

Gone, like T9 texting, is the once exciting novelty of being important, popular, scandalous

September 3, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Good Enough for Government Work: Becoming a Cam Girl

Brittany Micka-Foos

One night—which was, as it turned out, my last night camming

August 27, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Trust Issues

Stephen J. Golds

I knew the talk about a baby was another red flag, but the more uncontrollable Amelie became, the deeper I got hooked. I couldn’t go back to what my life was before. I think it had been drowned the

August 20, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Victim Impact Statement

J. H.

I am not sorry about most things I’ve done; I really do try my best to be good.

August 18, 2023 | Nonfiction

Tennis Lessons, 1983

Chris Girman

My opponent was curly-haired and perpetually smirking. Everything around him – his fancy collared shirt, shoes, wristbands, tennis bag – was emblazoned with an Adidas logo

August 13, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Virgil Abloh Attends a Filipino Party

Lloyd Alimboyao Sy

But her coup de grace was when she started bringing a white boyfriend to our parties. He was a real champion. His name was John.

August 8, 2023 | Nonfiction

Fourteen

Jennifer Ostopovich

I try to imagine the various people the specks of bubble gum had belonged to. Try to give them faces and purposes.

August 7, 2023 | Nonfiction

Barbenheimer

Sean Kilpatrick

gen x girls grew too cool to touch and millennials gayed the world the rest of the way limp in their piteous attempts to save it.

August 6, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Is This Goodbye Then?

Anastasia Shteinert

The hangover was ruining the romance. Last night I woke up a friend and made her drink wine—Chateau 2016. I had to deal with my nerves somehow.

July 30, 2023 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

My Brief, Disastrous Attempt at Polyamory

Audrey W.

We started as open, NOT poly. This was a very important distinction to us, despite not having a working definition of either types of relationships. It was, we both agreed, substantially less cringe

July 23, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Rita

Mike Day

By March of 2016, my cousin Josh and I were practically flat broke. We’d been having an incestuous and adulterous affair, one that elevated his title to “cuzband” (he hated that term). Four years

July 20, 2023 | Nonfiction

Phantom Baby, Motherless Daughter

Emma Burger

Sometimes I think I won’t understand what it is that I’ve lost until I write a book about it.

July 16, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Consume(d)

Lindsay Forbes Brown

One night I was so drunk, I couldn’t feel my face.

July 9, 2023 | fucked up modern love essays

Bitters and Soda with Lemon

Ellie Lynch

I was drinking bitters and soda with lemon, my new signature drink. It has .03% alcohol, less than a bottle of kombucha.

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