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A HISTORY OF MEN AT SEA by Jack Wildern

May 4, 2022

Chris said it would be easy. We just had to avoid crashing into the pier when we launched. He liked the sea and I liked getting lost. Taking the boat out to the fort suited us both.

KATHE KOJA on film with Rebecca Gransden

May 3, 2022

My sister had taken a bunch of us kids to the drive-in to see a scary movie, and we started out shrieking and giggling; by the end, we were jammed together in the front seat, silent, or crying. But the feeling I remember most deeply wasn’t fear, it was outrage.

BEACH BABE by Suzy Eynon

May 2, 2022

On the drive, you read an erotic story in a women’s magazine and try not to picture the dripping peach as your father navigates over sizzling asphalt.

THE SUNSET MACHINE by Tamar Nachmany

April 29, 2022

But getting pregnant was highly unlikely under these circumstances. Etgar slept across town. And sexting couldn’t get you pregnant.

NOTHING’S A SURPRISE by Cory Bennet

April 28, 2022

A key that unlocks many locks is dope but a lock that opens for any key is busted, is how it was explained to me once, but I’m no fucking locksmith. I just liked getting laid.

ISABEL by Min Mai

April 27, 2022

We were scraping the gum off the underside of a desk when she removed her dress, folded it into a square, and rested it on the teacher’s desk. She said simply that she didn’t need the job of cleaning the gum off her clothes too. I stared at her sandy skin exhaling its own heat. I was sad for her: she was loveless.

DUCK POND 2 by Adam Soldofsky

April 25, 2022

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THE HUNDRED YEAR PERIOD by Leah Smolin

April 22, 2022

Today marks my one hundredth anniversary working at the waffle factory. They threw a little party for me in the breakroom—coffee in paper cups, a pink cake with ONE HUNDRED written on it in frosting. My friend Ellie mimed throwing up on the cake. I laughed and covered my mouth with my cup.

STAYING CLEAN by Megan Premo

April 20, 2022

The foamless rectangle was greenish-blue, an institutional color, not a tropical one, and it smelled like something meant to clean dishes or toilets or floors, not human hair, not fourteen-year-old girls’ bodies.

MIKE THORN on film with Rebecca Gransden

April 19, 2022

Horror is the genre I associate most immediately with transgression and secrecy, which is part of the reason I adore it so much.