Posts by Jean Richardson

August 4, 2024 | Rejected Modern Love Essay

A Moveable Fetus

Jean Richardson

Foreshadowing!

July 24, 2024 | Nonfiction

Minor's Libido

Alexander Hackett

In 1902, he finally cut off his own penis with a small knife that he'd managed to smuggle into his cell.

July 18, 2024 | Poetry

I Wouldn’t Last a Minute Anywhere

Madi bean

Video surveillance is for your safety 

I lost my thought and now I can't do anything but listen 

 

Writing is only anything if you can sublimate or depreciate the original thing into a

July 17, 2024 | Interview

Parasocial Dreams and Aestheticized Tragedy: Brittany Menjivar and Chandler Morrison in Conversation

Brittany Menjivar & Chandler Morrison

They say you shouldn’t feed the trolls, but trolls are an essential component of the culture.

July 16, 2024 | Interview

Halle Butler on Banal Nightmare

Anna Dorn

I think sometimes what people mean by “likable” as opposed to sympathetic or goodhearted is “conforming to my idea of what behavior I should aspire to.”

July 10, 2024 | Nonfiction

Notes from the Blood Factory: Issue 3, The Night Bitch Cometh

FRANK REARDON

It should be noted that I really love to eat pussy.

July 9, 2024 | Interview

August Thompson on his debut novel Anyone's Ghost

Anna Dorn

I think outside of drinking himself to death, Fitzgerald had a pretty fantastic life.

June 28, 2024 | Nonfiction

Ugly Sex

Dan Leach

The best futures are the ones that never come.

June 26, 2024 | Sports

Sports City Grill

Elwood Weebs

I just told you about the time I met Burt Reynolds.

June 21, 2024 | Nonfiction

Perfect Sex

Dan Leach

You: I can't live in a world where seventy-five percent of anything is perfect.

June 18, 2024 | Fiction

Smoking

David Stillwagon

Maybe I was smoking all wrong, but it appeared that I needed another smoke.

June 14, 2024 | Fiction

Bird heart & The mother

Natalie Rose Richardson

Bird heart

I was hiking the canyons alone when a mountain lion appeared on the path in front of me. Needless to say I was surprised. I had never seen a mountain lion in the wild before, so you

June 9, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

A Response to My Spouse’s Hecklers

India Choquette

When Tyler and I first got together, we didn’t know that they were trans. But now we do, and so does the rest of the world. And the rest of the world has mixed feelings about it. “I kinda felt like I

June 8, 2024 | Nonfiction

Initial Email Thread: Chloe Caldwell Submits to Elizabeth Ellen

Elizabeth Ellen & Chloe Caldwell

Non-Fiction Book Submission--Caldwell

Inbox

 








Chloe Caldwell <cocomonet@gmail.com>





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June 6, 2024 | Poetry

2 Poems

Mather Schneider

He finally died in midsummer 
when it was hot as hell.

June 5, 2024 | Interview

Teddy Wayne on The Winner

Anna Dorn

I’m somewhat like that, but more of a junkballer, a term better known for baseball pitchers: someone who gets by with unexpected spins and slices and wiliness due to a deficit of conventional talent.

May 30, 2024 | Poetry

2 Poems

PJ Lombardo

miserable, swimming laps, aghast with vacancy

May 29, 2024 | Poetry

Two Poems

Nolo Segundo

Moloch Eternal [1969 version}

we see an instant reply
of brains blasted at arm’s length

we gawk in color amazement
at monks posing as scarecrows
dressed in silken robes of flame

we turn

May 24, 2024 | Nonfiction

Hobart in NYC

Gadfly

In a spacious room at the midtown hotel where the inimitable Tennessee Williams died, congregated a small but lively salon of authors and storytellers.

May 23, 2024 | Fiction

EXCERPT FROM American Narcissus - "Free Shit"

Chandler Morrison

She was a kid, he reasoned. She’d grow out of her ridiculous ideology. It wasn’t worth a confrontation.