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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.

THE LIST by Annie Delmedico

June 5, 2023

In movies, the end of the world makes everyone care about the right things, right when the right things are about to be gone. Not me. I want my money.

DOING VERY WELL! by Tippy Rex

May 31, 2023

It was cold on the floor, I confess, but I thought it was OK. Since he left, I wake up every morning and marvel at all the me-warmed space on the mattress.