July 6, 2025 | fucked up modern love essays
Spring Break
G Perata
I don’t want anything serious. But come to raves with me. Take drugs with me!
July 4, 2025 | Fiction
Read Sheet [DWJTM]
Ben Jahn
And by:
Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram account (@shortflightlongdrive). Come for the cougar stalking the line between avant-tasteful and not not ironic literary hot mom, stay for zooming in on the books in the background. Elizabeth Ellen’s Instagram. I’m liking it for the captions.
July 3, 2025 | Poetry
Four Poems
Philip Traylen
But there’s no cup, no / kitchen. Just one mouldy / statue, dreaming of television.
ALL-AMERICAN JESUS
Jan E. Mehmedović
out in the Everglades, no resurrection
just a rotting boy's corpse
Nine Poems
Jerome Kookan
the day i was born i was yellow and poisoned and anxious.
and they put me under a sunlamp and burned it out of me.
Wine of the Year
Kate Bresee
I laugh and say, “is that a Rupi Kaur poem?”
Pound-town, U.S.A.
Arielle Gordon
You’ll know you’re entering pound-town, U.S.A. if you start to lie a lot
Triple Lives: A Conversation with Sebastian Castillo
Sam Franzini
a friend of mine once said that [Fresh, Green Life] is My Year of Rest and Relaxation for boys.
Three Poems
Richard Siken
Drug Plane
I was fifteen, then sixteen, then twenty. My high-school friend was my now college roommate. His stepfather was less mysterious but more compelling. He was having trouble with his
Weird Fucks: A Literary Reading Diary
Danielle Chelosky
A recap of New York's biggest night.
Doubt Is Just A Thought Distracting You From What You Already Are
Sivan Lavie
We are like dogs in a dog park, smelling each other, breathing together
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.
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.
Miami Mistress
Kimberly Nicole
If Miami were a person, she would have veneers from the same dentist who does her Botox
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?
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
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
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
Midnight In The Amazon Company Town
Nicola Maye Goldberg
Last spring was the last spring.
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.
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
Two Poems
Sofija Popovska
On the lawn, sprinklers bend the light with no greater purpose
“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,
Privacy Fence
Austin Blaze
It’s got good bones, everyone kept telling us. Who knows.
Fablegun Construction
Drew Mosman
I see them right there plain as day, two-dimensional prints, sacred geometry, my life is full of meaning.