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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Table of Contents

Michael WashingtonAugust 23, 2024

A Visual Poem in the Shape of a Biblically Accurate Angel Wrapped Around the Mast of the Empire State Building 1 Variation on a Theme by Some Hackette Who C...

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Executive Dysfunction

Alexa Torres SkillicornAugust 22, 2024

Call it insurmountable, this task of reviving tomorrow. How could we: now the sun rises in the west, now it rains bile, now the moon forgot its silver. ...

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People also ask: how to fix iPhone heating up?

Lucia GallipoliAugust 19, 2024

I got an email that the world is prob ending— I wonder what you think about that? everyone I’ve ever really loved still yields empty search results in Google...

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I am a Pre-Cannibal Armie Hammer

José A. GonzálezAugust 15, 2024

walking pants loose from the music and LED lights gnats waltz around the red&blue street lights walking from my friendships looking for a belt in r...

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yes/no

Ophelia MonetAugust 12, 2024

A comfortable couch welcomes me, the kind that you sink into, plush. She asks me how I’ve been feeling lately. Fine, I guess. Not bad. Numb, if nothing else...

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Portrait of My Lover Wearing a KN95 at McDonald’s

Michael JulianiAugust 9, 2024

Frozen again — no way to eat outside with wind screaming off the lake. You wrap both hands around your cup, its cardboard heat seeping through you....

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Night Swimming

Joe PhelanAugust 8, 2024

After the boys were in bed, I’d haul across the bright, brined roads of January to the heated pool and delve into chlorinated luminescence. After crunching ...

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Shaun Pieter ClampAugust 3, 2024

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6pm, NYE

West AmbroseJuly 25, 2024

We sat a place for you,     (and you and you…)     We sat a place, we dressed in our finest and left the empty hangers, ...

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Early 90s Literacy

Kristen SchmittJuly 19, 2024

I started reading Henry Miller because Ed Kowalcyzk told me to; Pen and ink jeans Threadbare discontent I wore my nihilism On my sleeve: clear, concise ...

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Fire Island Rhapsody

Daniel BrennanJuly 17, 2024

old gods under our skin & in the breeze of lacerating brine that scalpels this island’s chest right down the center our hands plunge in warm ...

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[blank white card] in bed

John Waddy BullionJuly 9, 2024

Whenever I find myself In a creative rut I take out my deck Of Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies” cards— Slips of paper stamped with cryptic aph...

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“Levi’s wants you to rethink your denim shopping”* 


Katie KempleJune 20, 2024

I comply. Think about the Discovery Shop, where I scratch through metal hangers holding the skins of some other woman's life. What buds and stems grew throug...

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