Posts by Selen

October 30, 2025 | Fiction

Passing Over

Selen

The most unforgivable thing I’ve done that didn’t involve sex or lying was today, I was wiping the track before the next train and this man was squelched black in bone tatters in the middle, and I

March 27, 2025 | Poetry

2 Poems

Selen Ozturk

It was bad today.

I stood in Trader Joe’s two hours

January 7, 2025 | Fiction

Passenger

selen ozturk

My dad’s passed, my dad says. He’s driving to cremate and bury him. He tears one minute further from me. Two. His phone clatters on the dashboard. Horns and curses. He says BEEP fuck, if I could BEEP

November 11, 2024 | Poetry

Five Poems

Selena Cotte

writing questions, like

why does he come over in the bad storms

and make excuses not to leave

November 10, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

We Did It When You Bled

Selen Ozturk

Mostly we ordered in pizza and put on slow music that looped and stayed on your rug until our pleasures panged together.

April 14, 2024 | fucked up modern love essays

Honest

Selen Ozturk

“I’ve asked you here tonight to tell you I’ve told my wife everything. She’s fine with it, she really is, and I want to really emphasize that. She only asks that we’re not intimate in our bed. Hers

June 7, 2021 | Poetry

if you were my ex i’d simply rebound

Selena Cotte

"sorry to ping / i just want to know who was too good for who..."