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Newsletter · By April Von Blood · English · Official site

Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 29, 2026

    September 2026: The Inbetween (opens the original)

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    Dear paid subscribers, It’s September!I was about to type, “It’s fall!” because technically, yes, we are in fall. But to meeee, September is its own special, separate thing. September is the bridge between summer and fall, and I think it’s one of the most magical times of the year. The greenery is still hanging on, but you can feel it beginning to give … Read more

  2. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Can you see me? (opens the original)

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    I recently had the realization that I have never felt truly seen in any of my romantic relationships.A couple of months ago, a couple of my girlfriends and I were on a long drive out of state. We passed the time chatting, catching each other up on our lives, singing to the radio, and pulling up each other’s horoscopes and life path numbers on our phones as the highway stretched on forever. We would read them aloud and say things like, “Oh my god, this is sooo true for you,” and “Holy shit, this

  3. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    August 2026: Metamorphaugust? (opens the original)

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    Dear paid subscribers,August didn’t go well for me.At the very end of July, I spiked a fever. Then the fever hung around for a week. I went to urgent care, who sent me to the ER to figure out the cause of this mystery fever after I tested negative for COVID, the flu, and strep.I’d never been to the ER before, and it was weird. Fourteen hours, 34 blood t… Read more

  4. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    Two Husbandless Years (opens the original)

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    Two years ago today, I discovered my husband was having an affair.No need to retell that story. Even if you have never heard it before, you know how it goes: lying, gaslighting, manipulation—a tired wife reaching gothic-horror levels of paranoia before finally taking matters into her own hands and searching the scoundrel-husband’s Apple Watch messages. She discovers she is not insane after all, spends some months in a weird manic state, rebuilds her life, and becomes hotter and cooler and happie

  5. Issue · Aug 13, 2026

    The Madonna/Whore in Apt 4. (opens the original)

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    One time, when my sister was visiting me, I made her stand in the hallway while I spoke gibberish in my apartment.I stood in my bedroom and spoke at a completely normal volume, saying things that were not words, while she stood on the other side of the door. When she came back in, she said she could hear me perfectly clearly.I did this because, at the time, I was having extremely loud sex in my apartment quite often, and I was riding the fantasy that the walls—thin as paper, basically paper—were

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