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UBËR by Mitch Russell

July 3, 2023

People—and I mean even absolute strangers—they’ll just talk and talk and talk and they expect you to listen to their whole life story. Have you ever experienced this? Do you know what I mean?

OUR MONSTROUSNESS AS A TEMPLATE: An Interview with B.R. Yeager

June 30, 2023

At my most pessimistic I’ve worried that this collection is akin to charging people to watch me at the gym; when I’m more optimistic, it feels like I’m just flexing in different genres.

CRYING IN THE SEX SHOP by LHC

June 28, 2023

The thing about being in a sex shop is that you’re trying to signal with your body language *I feel cool and normal about sex.*

THE GOLD—OR SILVER—RUSH by Z.H. Gill

June 26, 2023

nevertheless i have grown tired of it already, as anyone in my situation would. anyway, i am stuck. hand looks bad.

I’M JUST LIKE EVERY INSECURE WRITER: An Interview with Drew Buxton

June 23, 2023

There was this thing near San Antonio when I was in high school called the Elmendorf Beast that killed livestock. It turned out it was just a coyote with mange.

UGLY BOYS by Daniel Isaiah Elder

June 21, 2023

Men. A constant desire, sometimes simmering, often burning. Never sated. And for him, I knew, it had been even longer.

THE HOLY PROFESSIONS by Ryan Griffith

June 19, 2023

There’s enough clogged hair to build a new human, one who believes in the plunger, the snake, the possibility that our channels will flow free.

ENTER MY OWN FLESH by Sofia Drummond-Moore

June 14, 2023

I made this dangerous anomaly. I think I might have made it on purpose. I think maybe I asked for this interruption.

ANOTHER CUSTOMER by Sascha Belle Nastasi

June 12, 2023

Her sandwich – mine now – is sloppily assembled, the melted cheddar thick with oil like a handsome man’s mucus. I eat without chewing much.

I AM MARKED SAFE by Ian Crutcher Castillo

June 7, 2023

A year and three months ago a stray bullet caught Mina in the face, just grazing it. She has a scar that trails down her left eye, back to her left ear. The scar looks like one tear crying. Sometimes, lightning strikes twice.