Think of the bros

Ewen GlassFebruary 9, 2026

the bros and their podcasts, the bros and their hurt; consider their cherished FACTS DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS; think of their parents, steroid-ho...

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owl

Ben StarrFebruary 5, 2026

Dysfunctional relationships aren’t nearly as fun as they seem in the movies. No wacky sidekicks cracking wise or hilarious hijinks begging to ensue. It’s jus...

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The alien Ursa Major defends her dissertation

Lina BuividavičiūtėFebruary 2, 2026

Keanu Reeves plays a failed angel who wants to have a successful career – he is tasked with protecting drivers who use mobile phones on the road – Keanu Reeve...

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Matt ZambitoJanuary 30, 2026

—after the film by the same name A dying bloodwood tree in the backyard needs timbering, and my neighbor, Jimbo, the amateur butcher, bullies his cuniculture...

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how many signals would it take to bring down a commercial boeing 747

ani anyaJanuary 20, 2026

I have to tell you something. I need to get this off my chest Back sometime in 2009, I kept my phone on the entire flight (by accident, of course) and nothi...

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Ode to the RedBull

Karina TenDecember 26, 2025

A divine can in my hand teases me, all beckoning with its colours of blue and white. I am unable to resist, and so I’ll be inhaling its vital light. I’ve ...

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Home Alone at the End of the Year

Sammi LaBueDecember 24, 2025

The candles are fake burning in the new old windows of my movie set house Like I have died and been reincarnated as Kevin Mcallister. Still, I chose to pick a...

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In Defense of Popup Ads

Nicole ShepherdDecember 22, 2025

Algorithms may aggravate, but they never forget. They remember your needs: wedding guest dress, cheap meals, how to survive a recession, baby shower gif...

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Singing Warren Zevon feeling my bones mutate into asshole bones

Travis ShosaDecember 22, 2025

not literally, of course every asshole i have eaten has been boneless but through the magic of song i have conjured the brundle pod and i am brundlezevon, ...

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Poems About Nebraska

Benjamin PattersonDecember 17, 2025

I. Nebraska is Never Anything Iowa passed in a series of collapsing, unrelated images. out of the fog, out of the fog, they said. Cropped grasses and win...

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21 Pilots (yes, I know it’s styled “Twenty One”)

Damien FarleyDecember 12, 2025

Listening party line long Paralleling the main drag In this Bound Brook but not really Standing in for some other unknown Early autumn in “Central” Jersey ...

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JIMMY CARTER SAW A UFO

Lauren MiliciDecember 11, 2025

A found poem a kind of green light in the western sky. it stopped beyond the pine trees— a distant, heavenly body. there is nothing to fear: god’s han...

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Something Weirder

Naomi LeighDecember 9, 2025

Maudlin House wants me to write something weirder— It’s a no on the love poem in the style of Yeats. Fair enough. “Never give all the heart” and all that… Ma...

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Lamotrigine Infinity I.

Molly AkinNovember 25, 2025

I wake pale and encircled encircled by a purpling A purple encircling encircling my orbits I orbit strangely strangely orbited My gravity uncertain ...

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sober sunday

nat raumNovember 18, 2025

no more shots. no more half- pours. no more bellying up   to sip high-octanes straight   from the source. only raisinless organs—no ...

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DIAMOND LIFE

Zack CarsonNovember 18, 2025

Two blitz kids tumble out the photobooth, a lipstick mess of highball spill and hands all over each other. As their teeth clack, their cheeks flare with Day-...

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Cybernetic King Fester’s Full-Course Meal

Brandon YuNovember 14, 2025

Loathesome glunk & grottle. Skeleton spittleslobs & dungeon rat kebabs. Slumwater wine smuggled from Arkansas Production Brigade 41, Unit 5. ...

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You’re a Chatbot Now

David HanlonNovember 11, 2025

Light fractures as it hits the chandelier, swaying over my sprawled body — ruby, plastic, dripping; droplets suspended, each fake crystal an eyesore, a cr...

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Let me steal you the moon

Chloe BausanoNovember 4, 2025

Gladly I will go get you the moon, and I will put it into your new apartment, so that you will not be so afraid of the dark. While I am up there, I will br...

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Rizzberry & Cream

Travis ShosaNovember 3, 2025

Drooping hazel eyes affixed to the back of a can of Lucky Energy, I am regaled with tale of Mr. Lucky, who survived a plane crash that killed 136. My ha...

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Read It and Scream

John SaraOctober 22, 2025

(after The Blob That Ate Everyone by R.L. Stine) There’s a scene in my story where the blob hides in the basement, licks its lips hungrily, waiting for fre...

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Bat in the Biblioteca

Arielle ArbushitesOctober 17, 2025

A bat in the Biblioteca, dodging between Dickens and Don Julio, a critic who couldn’t decide if he preferred poetry or mezcal…. The intrusion of feral cha...

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dinghy

Travis ShosaOctober 15, 2025

Oh my gorgeous gremlin chipmunk baby I   Love you I Love you I Love you and I   Need you inside of me ew gross not like that   ...

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Once upon a time in Rocktober

David ColodneyOctober 6, 2025

Armless Eddie rolls a joint with his feet as sun sets, Stillwater Park’s benches moist from the day’s sweat. Eddie works it eyes closed, toes like knitting need...

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things thought in some particular order

Zane GlickOctober 3, 2025

san francisco start-up utilizes whale shark mail service to improve american economy tenfold. hatsune miku endorses anime waifu chatgpt wrapper for prime minis...

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Reborn On The Bayou

Wade HarrisOctober 1, 2025

Wake up. Mosquitoes fucking everywhere. Goddamnit. Fucking got drunk and left the window with no fucking screen open again. Walk over to the fridge. My...

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Moon in Scorpio

Ian liptakSeptember 30, 2025

Once over, and once over the moon. Your memory lingers; I’m afraid of knowing how to be or be still; the latter is misnomer.   Someday the m...

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An Introduction to Astrology in Italy

Lina BuividavičiūtėSeptember 29, 2025

Inspired by the film Wishing on a Star     I watch a documentary about an Italian astrologer and her clients. She calculates the decisive ...

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Tonight, It’s Indiana!

Scott LaudatiSeptember 26, 2025

The stage was warm tonight and finally someone had heard of me before I faced the crowd. There’s a love story I never tell but I gave it away in Indianapolis an...

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Bed Ridden

Leila HeidsiekSeptember 23, 2025

A caterpillar writhes in the water. I place it onto dry land. It dies out of spite.   I come to the lake to meet the butcher. Exchanging rot...

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