Posts by Adam Berlin

April 7, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Le Loup

Adam Berlin

“How do you say, I am the wolf.”

“Je suis le loup. Tu es mon loup. You are my wolf.”

“Je suis le loup,” I say.

April 2, 2024 | Interview

"Grateful and Mortified": Marissa Higgins on Publishing her Debut Novel A Good Happy Girl

Anna Dorn

Marissa:
I try very hard to be polite and normal, like manners are weirdly important to me given I'm a huge fuckup generally but my inner world is probably a less palatable version of Helen’s 💀💀

Anna:
You’re out here trying to be a good happy girl 

April 2, 2024 | Interview

Chaos Questions with Tom Williams

Sheldon Lee Compton

Guys, you’ve got Earl fucking Palmer out here in LA. The guy played on “Tutti Frutti” for chrissakes. You don’t think he could be part of the next hot thing?

March 28, 2024 | Fiction

I spent the day thinking of Elias

Maxfield Francis Goldman

I could hear the cheering of the crowd, their silent plastic mouths were happy; I could taste the dirt kicked up by the elephants, smell the liquid butter sediment of cheap popcorn.

March 26, 2024 | Interview

Alexandra Tanner on her "Seinfeldian" novel Worry

Anna Dorn

            i think the other end of seinfeldian is like
            tiny things really sharply observed

March 22, 2024 | Nonfiction

So Long Sailing

Claudia Elena Rodriguez

Few are lucky enough to realize when their destiny is laid before them. I am one of the lucky few. Mine came when my parents suggested a cruise to the Mexican Riviera from Christmas to New Year’s Eve.

March 21, 2024 | Poetry

Two Eulogies

Hayden Church

I begin to write a eulogy for
a guy who doesn't exist.

March 14, 2024 | Nonfiction

My Nina

Tamara Dragadze

But she is always here, always too strong to evaporate into some kind of hereto after.

March 12, 2024 | Interview

Chaos Questions with David Joy

Sheldon Lee Compton

I have no interest in living another 360 years. The folks I get along with have about died off and the world will be on fire by then. I’m blowing my brains out.

March 7, 2024 | Poetry

4 poems

gg roland

there is breathing
which is automatic
and there is loving you
and one is easier

March 6, 2024 | Poetry

Excerpts from X: previously posted on Twitter . . .

@asdkfjasdlfjd

Can't spoil what's ahead but suffice to say I may attempt to falsely accuse a fellow indie writer of war crimes in a psychotic bid for even more attention

March 5, 2024 | Fiction

Percocet Helps

David Simmons

Crush ten pills into a fine powder, then stir thoroughly in a glass of warm water. Put the glass in the freezer and let sit for twenty minutes. At this point, the mixture will have separated.

March 5, 2024 | Interview

Chaos Questions with Leah Hampton

Sheldon Lee Compton

SHELDON LEE COMPTON: The aliens actually showed up. They only communicate through images and demand you show them one overall image that explains our civilization. You have five minutes to Google Image search. What do you type into the search bar?

LEAH HAMPTON: “Image of Donald Trump shitting on an endangered butterfly”

March 3, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

I Appreciate the Company

Jade Mar

Eventually, the coke got to his head. He started becoming extremely paranoid. I was on a trip.

February 27, 2024 | Nonfiction

I Like the Drugs (And the Drugs Like Me)

Chandler Morrison

I was ten when my mother first took me to a psychiatrist. He put me on Zoloft at her request. My relationship with pharmaceuticals is my longest running one to date. My normal.

February 23, 2024 | Nonfiction

NOTES FROM THE BLOOD FACTORY ISSUE #2 ‘AFTER HOURS.’

Frank Reardon

Chris snaps the seal of a Jack Daniels shooter and pops the brown sugar down his throat. Tommy pops Vicodin: Coronado eats a stick of dynamite and blasts his brain with meth, no judgement.

February 22, 2024 | Fiction

Her Special Place

Mather Schneider

She sits in the grass in her special place and she does her meditation. It is the place she has carved out for herself in the world. 

February 18, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

Sick Gal Seeks Rare Elk Sighting or Mate

Laura Adrienne Brady

Chronic illness already made dating hard. And then the pandemic arrived.

“I almost forgot—” my childhood friend interjected as we were wrapping up a phone call on a blustery September day. “I

February 15, 2024 | Interview

Chaos Questions with Benjamin Drevlow

Sheldon Lee Compton

What I mean is I write auto-biographical fiction and as such I’m a habitual and unrepentant liar-liar-pants-on-fire sheep in wolf’s clothing.

February 12, 2024 | Nonfiction

What the Dead Know

Joanna Acevedo

Once, I thought I would forgive. Now, a year later, I’m still waiting for the feeling to appear