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Some Thoughts About Writing About Love While the World Falls Apart

Sasha Fletcher -

If I’m being perfectly honest, I don’t know what else to do. The sea is rising and so is the temperature. 836,000 people have...

In These Troubled and Troubling Times

Katie Hale -

Marie first became obsessed with digging things up the week they buried her dad. It started with the time capsule under the rock in...

Festival of Lights

Hannah Fischer -

What I didn’t know about Justilien Gaspard when I heard he was dying alone in Mexico was that he was gay. That he was...

If She Has No Coffin

Shahriar Mandanipour -

The following is an excerpt from Seasons of Purgatory by Shahriar Mandanipour and translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili. Seasons of Purgatory is available now...

The Travel

Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto -

Nothing creates lifelong memories and family experiences like travelling. There are three, maybe un-generalized, stages in any travel: the preparation, the journey, and the...

The Martin Heidegger Statue

Jasmine Dreame Wagner -

The first thing the surgeon asks when he sees my scan is: when was the accident? I haven’t been in an accident. Earlier this...

The Accident

Kelly Thomas -

Today I go to the city pool and am relieved to find teenagers working who don’t give a fuck about me. I linger to...

Visions of Tom

Paul McAdory -

A few nights ago I had a sex dream about Tom Brady. I have never been a fan of the Patriots but there I...

Song Plugger & The Kid

DC Pierson -

Kid’s a hell of a songwriter but he’s weird. Let me tell you what I mean: He’ll fixate on some object or maybe even...

All This Could Be Yours

Rodrigo Duran -

My mom and I were driving to church when we came upon a dead raccoon on the side of the road. I don’t know...