On an airplane home from Chicago without wifi

Mira Mason-ReaderSeptember 22, 2025

How do you make an omelet, and why do you think my forehead looks like this, and do you really never think about ghosts? I need to buy some rugs to remember I...

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I’ve Managed to Piss Everyone Off Again

Spencer EckartSeptember 19, 2025

Really it's become my strong suit. Am I fizzling out? My pale thigh baking in the windowsill. What a lovely bouquet of dahlias. I'm pissed off even by ...

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police called after Netflix actor bites co-star at fan event

Alexis RhodesSeptember 18, 2025

i offer my deepest regrets for misreading the vibe at the John Deere Netflix Unscripted Series Pre-Awards Show Cocktail Half-Hour event Tuesday night. we a...

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After Black Mirror, thinking about people and robots

Lina BuividavičiūtėAugust 24, 2025

The lecture was about dystopias, and a student told me about this series. Later, I watched it with my son and husband, and our thoughts coincided. In the ag...

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Your Ghost Still uses my WiFi

Abhishek Kumar SinghAugust 15, 2025

You left but forgot to log out of my grief. Now your ghost plays sad playlists on my Bluetooth speaker at 3:17 a.m. sharp. The neighbors think I’m haun...

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Dark Neon Streets

Karley WoodsJuly 29, 2025

Late-night summer walks under the black glittering sky 
through lit up blue neon streets to the corner store, 
hugging each other tight, holding his back and 
h...

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Vegetables

Wade HarrisJuly 25, 2025

Outside working. Texas Summer. Hot as fuck. 103 in the shade, man. Transistor radio tuned just right as always. Turn To Stone by Joe Walsh. Fuck yeah. ...

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everything’s computer

Ben StarrJuly 25, 2025

Morning coffee is computer. Single origin microchips, binary pour-over brewing a bitter data flow of faux liquid processing power. Perfect pairing to a mo...

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Child Proof

M.A. RenoJuly 23, 2025

You grab the glass bottle from the vanity you built for me. “What’s this doing here?” Men love to take away my baby bottle. “You’re not drinking today, you’r...

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Tattoos

Conor HultmanJuly 23, 2025

Baltimore blue tattoo of a womans head on right upper chest blue tattoo of 2 hearts & name charlet ann on right upper arm blue tattoo of woman wearing a ...

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It’s 7:00pm & we are in Plaza 9 at Bonnaroo 2025

Victoria NordlundJuly 21, 2025

with my daughter & her husband & this is my 1st time camping & my 1st festival & we drove 15 hours to get here on Wednesday & I am preten...

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The life of a depressed housewife

Dayna TroisiJuly 18, 2025

I have done it again– Nothing Being useless Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like nothing I do it so it ...

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Visiting Cebu Through Google Earth

Dawn Angelicca BarcelonaJuly 14, 2025

My city-boy father cut off the data to his iPhone and I wonder: where are all these photos going? His photos turn me into a traveling circus or a zoo, my s...

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Uber Eats Us All

Chris VolaJuly 7, 2025

alone in your hunger contemplating a rainstorm while the last crumb of your cheesy gordita crunch falls from the ottoman you think no one hears i...

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If I could text the Filet-o-Fish

David ColodneyJuly 4, 2025

I’d write this: We’re both past 60 now, and yet you’ve managed to keep your same shape: round on the outside, square in between. I’m just getting rounder. Some ...

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Summer is a pop genre

Lina BuividavičiūtėJune 26, 2025

I am stroking my cat's fur – white with a black tail and ears. I'm lying in a hammock, reading him my latest love novel – My cat is an intellectual who ha...

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THE ROOMBA HAS LOCKED ITSELF IN THE BATHROOM

Benjamin DrevlowJune 25, 2025

The roomba has locked itself in the bathroom and isn’t coming out. Keeps banging from wall to bathtub to cabinet to shitter. I keep waiting to hear vomiting, ...

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Angler

Nicole ShepherdJune 23, 2025

Any woman with fangs knows her flicker resurrects what should stay rotting in the Marianas Trench. Swipe, swipe. Swish. Next. Plenty of fish— and none...

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travolta in narcissus

SHANK3June 20, 2025

shadowed man of many mirrors naked and resonant in the lone shell of disco’s ruin— your shine that stabs, blinds me with glittered contempt, ordained to ...

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The Party Mime Contingent

Robert John MillerJune 13, 2025

Routine   Wave. Do the lean. Sip a drink. Grab a rope. Lasso someone. Now it’s a fishing reel.   Carry your gear up a ladder. Try to catc...

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Ride History

Sophia CarrollJune 11, 2025

after Marie Howe   Sometimes the driver waits for me to buckle my seatbelt. They usually don’t. Sometimes I note the flag hanging from the mirror, ask, “Are...

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Emo Kids Never Die

Justin KarcherJune 9, 2025

When I showed her my poetry for the first time she said I was just like Conor Oberst and my eyes went big like the Midwest. She was from Canada. This one n...

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Vaping

Tim FrankJune 5, 2025

Can you vape books? Sartre? Murakami? Can you vape a river or a cloudless summer sky? Will it taste like fresh mango, Or a wild country flower? Can you vap...

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Ex whose girlfriend’s Instagram was designed specifically to annoy you

Lucia GallipoliMay 29, 2025

if you’re nosy I’m sure you have one too and that you also went out of your way to find it but mine is worse than yours for desire lines apparently lead...

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How I Plan To Explain My Love For Professional Wrestling On The First Date

Gavin GarzaMay 27, 2025

Tenderness is a thing to be beaten into. — Ocean Vuong So basically, professional wrestling is the last bastion of American theater still accessible to the ...

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A Poet’s Guide to Sophist Rules

Hayley StoddardMay 26, 2025

I. Nomos You stand in front of the class shaking to read your first sonnet. They clap, or laugh, or fall still. When they stand, you clap, laugh, or fall ...

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Waterworld

Chelsea FanningMay 23, 2025

Sometimes, I imagine Waterworld reshot from the female gaze. Instead of Kevin Costner’s gilled Mariner, the story focuses on Helen, a hard working woman try...

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review of the los angeles times festival of books

Rory StrongMay 22, 2025

i really did have that panic attack at the c-span 2 tent. they were live taping two men wearing suits and sitting in armchairs. beside them, others were han...

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Medusa as Cassandra

Kara DorrisMay 21, 2025

Goddess, you will be so cute in Clueless. Will play clueless so well everyone overlooks you, dazzled by Cher’s silky hair & keen knee-highs. You won’t k...

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NOT THE BEES

Brandon DiehlMay 20, 2025

When my therapist asks me what’s wrong today, I start to regret even attending this video meeting. She wants to know if it’s the depression or the anxiety or...

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