You can make a mistake for an entire life.
Deadland
It took dying to be together.
Moored
Given the right circumstances, anything could sting.
The Pollinator
The pollinator’s girlfriend is lying in bed waiting for her.
1001 Nights
The other girl has a warm, melt-in-your-mouth name like Anne or Madeline. She is the virgin weeping in every church, so clean she glows.
The Strange World of Work: An Interview with Hilary Leichter
…I was thinking about dating in the city and how it can be just like applying to jobs. There are some interesting parallels…
Books About Imperfect Love
We grow up thinking “love” is effortless, or at least I did – that you find someone then you just “know,” and then you trail off into the sunset. We see it in movies, we see it in couples who…
Review: Writers & Lovers by Lily King
King is able to capture the particular kind of youth Casey is struggling with perfectly: one where she hasn’t lived anywhere with a dishwasher since high school, where she does not want to be infertile yet also does not want…
Flash Fiction: “On Becoming Anti-Depressed” & “Sense/Reference”
I tried micro-dosing mortared pills in squares of toilet paper, and when that didn’t work I bought an expensive machine to re-encapsulate the ground-up chemicals.
The Boxer
Yi continued training, but he lost whatever hope he used to have; gone was the certainty in his steps and the hunger in his swings. He was distracted in the ring.
Like Building A Church
In your third month we buy a manger at Babies R’ Us. “Some Assembly Required,” you read on the box. “That could be stamped on the side of you too,” I say. We both laugh. The college kid dollying the…
Fiction by Mara Grayson: Abstractions
By Mara Grayson The boy doesn’t believe in words like soul. They are abstractions, he says, spitting the word like the idea is toxic, and poor approximations of the truths we too easily label feelings, concepts, ideas, understanding. He lists…