When the Wolf Comes to Your Door by Ted McLoof
What if I slept with someone else? What if— You heard me. I think I’m going to need more context for this. I’m asking what you would do....
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Ava Bratt
- Jan 3, 2022
- 14 min
Crude by Ava Bratt
“I still think of her when I masturbate,” I blurt out as I stick a cigarette between my teeth. Raising my lighter to the end and watching...
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Cynthia Cendagorta
- Jan 3, 2022
- 18 min
His and Hers by Cynthia Cendagorta
May 1996 The bathtub had just been cleaned. That’s the part she emphasized as she told the story, though I wasn’t sure why. She said, “I...
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Joey Salamone
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
365 more spins by Joey Salomone
around this sun that brightens just like you are laughing at another year with you and i so let’s fill a junk drawer together soy sauce...
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Sade Collier
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
In Queer Memory by Sade Collier
My eyelids crawl over in bone-fed memory like clock hands. Your lips are the first to buckle back into the rhythmic tick, cracked by the...
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Bryn Gribben
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
In That Snowstorm on February 11th, 2019 by Bryn Gribben
We woke, in love, so new in love, that as we lay there, watching the flakes drift past my picture window, the bedroom one that framed...
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Gail Calimaran
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Sunday Afternoons by Gail Calimaran
Must every thought I have be of you? Water, and a bean-shaped pool flamingos “waterlogged” kisses – the taste of sunscreen Prayers, and...
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Adam Davis
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Amor Brasileiro by Adam Davis
In your eyes, the Amazon breathes: lustrous night, shivering heat, air that weaves through avenues of vines, frond skyways. Sweltering...
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Lindsey J. Medina
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Advice from my Ex-Girlfriend’s Ex-Boyfriend by Lindsey J. Medina
She has spent every moment of her life grieving previous moments, so excuse her if she is slow to think. Slower to speak. Slowest to open....
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Sandra Yee
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
This is the shanty we built by Sandra Yee
because they said we couldn’t. This is the windbreak that failed against the push and shove of our blame. This is the beacon we erected...
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quartzliterary
- Jan 3, 2022
- 8 min
The Shower Consequence by Chere Taylor
Bobbi Kobeski stepped out of the shower, toweled herself off, and then took a quick moment to admire herself in the row of mirrors above...
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James Najarian
- Jan 3, 2022
- 13 min
Twentieth by James Najarian
Josh drove around the winding campus twice before he recognized where he was. He rifled through his brain, trying to find where he’d...
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Evan Benedict
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Seven Ways of Being Open by Evan Benedict
i. a cracked door on a winter morning bracing wind and slivered light steam from a coffee mug lit by sunrise, and onrushing of waking....
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Danielle Gennaro
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
I am sorry you think what I prophesied made you sick when it was really just bad takeout
by Danielle Gennaro Thus, the world was created, is what you shout at me over a compostable tray soaked in yesterday’s leftovers, ...
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Carina Stopenski
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
virgo under a new moon by Carina Stopenski
]you wrote your suicide note on a tarot card and cut your wrists with crystals when you forgot to set your affirmation your world is...
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Virginia Laurie
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
Nitroglycerin by Virginia Laurie
You were four the first time you realized you could turn your body into a bomb, the explosion knocked you back onto the Kindergarten rug,...
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Dane Lyn
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Alien by Dane Lyn
lovers claw at each other’s skin fingers of sweat transform into bloody tributaries pull pleasure from the mouth of pain harsh and...
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Durell Carter
- Jan 3, 2022
- 1 min
Always the Roses II by Durell Carter
Violets would be roses If we found value in the Hues that remind us of Midnight, And the soil that gives birth To pomegranates, And the...
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Paul Rousseau
- Dec 29, 2021
- 1 min
Sculpting Death by Paul Rousseau
She reminds me of A sculpture I saw somewhere, sometime, Maybe an urn of tombs In Cairo, Or a carving in the cobblestones of Venice, But...
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