Cosmic Laugh Track

Olin WishJanuary 9, 2025

That vomitus vortex In the hollow ass-end of depression Begins to resemble forever All events – Like a scarecrow slow dancing With a mop Pain beyond...

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Friends of Friends on Facebook

Andrea DulantoJanuary 6, 2025

I drank with some of them in college, days of Cisco and whippits lovely blur, the 90s beer and cigarettes and bongwater-stained carpets.   T...

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Fidelity

Lina BuividavičiūtėDecember 26, 2024

My dear, today I'm thinking about fidelity in a non-trivial way, And I realise that I've been unfaithful to you for a very long time, Maybe since the begi...

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B-Movie

Trish HopkinsonDecember 18, 2024

Lynch is sitting on the redwood porch of my parents’ house, smoking a cigarette, waiting for the cops to show up. It’s been a long night—the kind of night littl...

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the vampires the zombies the werewolves and you

Holly RowsellDecember 10, 2024

last October you wanted to visit that haunted house they set up in the park I was afraid but really I’m more frightened by loneliness or abandonment than thea...

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Viral

Cletus CrowDecember 5, 2024

in the future there are tickets to failure buy one see me forget my little brother's graduation watch your cat miscalculate cabinet height or vase breakabil...

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Star Guide

Bruce McRaeDecember 2, 2024

The Insomniac's Guide to the Stars, its numberless blank spaces and the smear of gravity for those who don't like reading. A vast assortment of corners whe...

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There’s an Astronaut in My AC!

Hannah DildayNovember 27, 2024

I think there are some astronauts standing on my windowpane? It looks like their spaceship landed in my air conditioner, and it seems they are barely the si...

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A BRIEF LIST OF THINGS I MIGHT HAVE DONE

David WojciechowskiNovember 26, 2024

after Sentimental Story, d. Z. Oraczewska, 1973   I tore pages out of books to create houses. I collected famous smiles. I drove a fast car. I learne...

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The Blackest Day

Kylie A HoughNovember 19, 2024

Sometimes, I can’t see it, what some call freedom. I can taste it, condensed milk, a can opener, my pinkie circles the rim of the mouth, Lady Fingers, plump, ...

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new york, california

Ashley D. EscobarNovember 14, 2024

someone can have a playlist called grocery store tulips & get my entire world i want to lounge in my underwear & do absolutely nothing in a hotel roo...

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Seance of the Sun

Akis LinardosNovember 1, 2024

At the end of apex species's folly, there ticks a celestial clock that senses a planet burning *** The sun turns blue from the core like a godeye open...

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night of the hunter

DJ WolfinsohnOctober 30, 2024

years ago on a basement tv at a birthday party, western themed six girls gathered around a cellophane fire to sing and watch that movie that scared me s...

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such seductive witchcraft in a gay gaze

Abbie DollOctober 28, 2024

/\˄/\ twin peaks: fire walk with me /\˄/\ has got me /\˄/\ downright foreplay fantasizing /\˄/\ ready to wed /\˄/\ the first girl who exclaims /\˄/\ upon our in...

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Wishful Thinking

Ecem YucelOctober 22, 2024

The eighth-grader who secretly reads feminist novels with explicit sex scenes and whose heart has been broken by the boy in classroom 8-B plucks leaves from the...

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After falling asleep during Season 4, Episode 2 of Help! My House is Haunted at 2:00am

Victoria NordlundOctober 21, 2024

A large shadow that may or may not be a demon looms in a room designed to look like my living room. But it’s a little too clean here, the tv’s not on & t...

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We Were Arm-Wrestling the Boys to Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls

Catherine WeissOctober 18, 2024

at the middle school dance because skin-to-skin was akin to touching god and everybody was still too bashful to slow dance with their crush, and probably th...

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The Universe is a Simulation Run by Cats

Eric Fisher StoneOctober 17, 2024

which explains chaos, laser-toy stars splashed through their paws, marbles of planets batted down black holes, the American Dream enchanting as empty boxes ...

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Things Are Hard So The Maladaptive Daydreaming Has Kicked Back In and Anyways I’m Dating Billie Eilish Up There So That’s Pretty Cool

Lexi RosenOctober 10, 2024

we meet at a winery and i ask if she’ll take a picture with me that would make another girl jealous. she licks my cheek and bites my  ear and buys out a restaur...

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DRIVE HOME

Spencer K.M. BrownOctober 9, 2024

Something gets into all the wild creatures this time of year. A worm gets in the brain, or maybe the heart, then they come to the highway to die, hit by a tru...

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Marilyn Monroe is dead 60 years but all I want to do is buy groceries

David ColodneyOctober 7, 2024

She graces a magazine cover in the Publix checkout line & I catch Elvis’s sneer from a rag in a rack next to Marilyn 47 years after he died & this aisle...

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Love Poem

Cletus CrowOctober 3, 2024

you call pimples spanning my back constellations of pain you squeeze them i squeal i call out of work so we watch a studio ghibli movie my neighbor...

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ME, MYSELF AND DRUNK

Jamie ValentinoOctober 1, 2024

The monster pounds the gates Just one sip gives release I abstain Keep the lock bolted I abstain Keep myself whole   ***   ...

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To the Editor

Nancy Byrne IannucciSeptember 30, 2024

who ends a pretty rejection note with Please Keep Writing, I want to tell you that it is like telling coneflowers to keep blooming or the sun ...

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The Crowning of Paimon

Lina BuividavičiūtėSeptember 28, 2024

After the films "Cult of the Sun" and "Hereditary"   Why isn't your own darkness enough, Paimon? You point your fingers at me, your followers weav...

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Eat the Rich

William Ward ButlerSeptember 25, 2024

Force-feed them cake, wake the guillotine from its slumber of centuries, lobotomize your landlord then remove the brain—excerebration, exhale hegemony, tonig...

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Why I Won’t Date Another Scorpio

Chelsea DoddsSeptember 3, 2024

because I didn’t want to believe in astrology, but after boyfriend two had the same birthday as boyfriend one I interpreted it not as a red flag but as a si...

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Surviving Seven Months in An Adjustable Memory Foam Mattress

Crystal TaylorAugust 28, 2024

In the first month, you learn to get by on bananas, yogurt and nuts. You don’t go outside so you don’t reek as much as you would have. You play search and find ...

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Moving to New York

Tim FrankAugust 27, 2024

In London, birds drown among the sinking catacombs then listen to gabba when the cinemas shut down leaving Polaroids lost on the tube. In New York, tramp...

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Epiphany After Falling Down the Quantum Immortality Rabbit Hole on TikTok

Victoria NordlundAugust 26, 2024

I You’re alone & driving down an unplowed highway near Hartford. Cars plod by on either side. Up ahead you spot one skidding toward you at cartoon high...

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