February 14, 2025 | Fiction
Amygdala Disco Party
Sivan Lavie
You are such a hot cowboy and I feel so lucky that you’re with me in this, standing in these dark brain fields right now, I think to myself.
February 13, 2025 | Fiction
The Story of White Water: A White Guy with a Sweat Lodge
Natalie Storey
We knew, for example, that according to 23 and Me, White Water didn’t have even a trace of indigenous blood, not even Cherokee, not even if you went back four generations.
How the algorithm detects a broken heart
Jun Chou
1. [User] searches for [potential ex]’s profile.
2. [User] views [potential ex]’s profile.
3. [User] unfollows [potential ex].
4. [User] views [8 photos] on [potential ex]’s
Mathematics and Metaphor: A Conversation with Barry Mazur
Audrey Zheng
Mathematicians make use of rather interesting and imaginative leaps to explain mathematics, or to be the substance of mathematics in its own right.
You can build it
Andrew Rader Hanson
you can build the fist into a exclamation point
Wheels within Wheels
J.L. Moultrie
She was convinced that I was in the throes of a mental breakdown
and when I asserted that I was not, she’d shut down completely.
Brittany Newell on Soft Core
Anna Dorn
With Soft Core the whole book poured out of me in a weird ecstatic gush; I like to mindlessly word-vomit first, take a break and drink some kratom, then return to the word doc and start editing in a slower, more thoughtful way, so that it kind of feels like sculpting.
Blame It on November
Chloe Wheeler
Why do I miss us at our worst?
You’re So Beautiful I Might
Jeffrey Hermann
You’re so beautiful I see that everything is beautiful. A mudslide. A wound. A dead raccoon.
Protandry
George Salis
Maybe, just maybe, it’s like that theory of the universe, a big bang followed by expansion until collapse, a big crunch, then a big bang again, ad infinitum, so that my curling, turtling pizzle will pop out again, pop in, pop out, poppet, an endless eon’s worth of self-fucking of a higher kind, a higher cruel.
Three Poems
Maria Giesbrecht
Best time to buy a bra / is right before the moon finishes / milking itself
LETTER TO THE BAD FEMINIST WITH WHOM I SHARED APARTMENT 5A
Laura Sweeney
We really hit our stride in Gender Justice class when the Women’s Studies department asked me to teach and I invited you to join, thinking a co-ed experience would best serve our students.
Odd Light
Brad Kelly
He’d been by himself now for months except for game night with his colleagues and so he multiplied 13 by 47 in his head and divided it down until it was a trace behind the decimal point and then he asked her if she would like to meet him for a coffee downtown.
Heaven Is A Table at 1 OAK
Lucie Turkel
with beer bongs and messy boys who didn’t know how to do anything but shove shoulders down for head
The Two Alis
Pavle Radonić
A glassy-looking eye staring out too from Mr A’s head. Had he been a victim somewhere along the line?
Manhood on the Brink: A Conversation with Andrew Lipstein
Sam Franzini
Because if something is inherently taboo, in any way, it’s probably worth exploring.
The Catholic
Danielle Chelosky
I’m hitting my vape while he’s being vulnerable.
Acting French
Katie Haley
I started talking like a retired showgirl in a ruined by cigarettes raspy voice and asking my mom things like ‘what good is Tom without some of Dick and Harry on the side?’
The Last American Woman
Elizabeth Ellen
Over the next few days, through a method of trial and error, I taught myself the basics of frontier survival.
Spooky Action at a Distance
Alexander Hackett
You're glowing, she said. And why would I be glowing? It can't be the gutrot wine, or last week's fast food lunches. It can't be my Quasimodo limp, I smashed my toe on a fire hydrant trying to