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Experimental writing exploring power, perception, and performance.

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Sep 25, 2026
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  1. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    best friend necklaces (opens the original)

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    I am sitting in the bathroom of apartment F because there are no chairs left.Except one high white wood stool that you will find in a cottagecore home (my brain is fried from the Internet). The fact that I followed up that association with such a mean and generic phrase is also extremely concerning because it’s borrowed. I didn’t fucking come up with that, but I have heard it from the Internet and those who ironically consume an obscene amount of content and criticize that behavior in either the

  2. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    stale marbles (opens the original)

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    gray passenger side mat rolls farther from the seat when he steps inhe slips and falls onto cracked leather when he squints at the sun, he will not roll down the windowhe applies sunscreen, adds to a collection of right handprints near the window crankhe moves the stick shift to R; i reverse the car to the moment beforethe moment was fine a single frame back, why replay it and destroy the memory?accidentally the passenger side mat rolls back in placeworn down, dried like leather, fallen from the

  3. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Nitrous Oxide (opens the original)

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    i chipped a front toothstamped its mark through a soft brown spot of an applesanded my smile on the back of an orange peelwiggled it out of my mouth like a grapeand spit out magenta on a dental drapethe dentist laughed at the x-ray and said:vanity decorates and assorts us into fruit baskets

  4. Issue · Aug 30, 2026

    ACTING, ATTACHMENT, AND SPECIFICITY (opens the original)

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    I was bound to be asymmetric, out of sync, and an easy to control character in the lives of others. I avoided saying hello to my neighbors or aspiring anything beyond my complaining and ruminating, only to reinforce my own insecurities. Modern therapy pushes for a strange and synthetic stability. I gave myself permission for sweet treats, thrifting sprees, speeding tickets and prescription drugs. I was hiding in an apartment with popcorn cathedral ceilings, expecting change, sparingly. I was a b

  5. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    noses (opens the original)

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    thoughts are forms, bodynothing heard, nothing knowni know instinctand reactions that surface, i sound fivewe left that time alonewhere?a playground slide, at the very end wherea pool of rain has collectedi am thoughts, traumasdiscomfortsi wanted my nose pierced at fivei had a plastic bracelet bead kiti stuffed a bead up my right nostrilaccidentally snorted itit was dark, streetlights were onup and up and updaadi was histrionic, aggressively dragged my body to the sidewalkat the ER i sat alon

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