How to Fake an Orgasm
by: Samantha Irby issue nine. GODDAMN I’M BAD AT THIS WRITING SHIT. Five or six weeks without a magazine post? That is downright blasphemous. In my defense, though, I‘m totally fucking […]
Category Archives: Memoir
Controlling the Chaos: My Battle with Anorexia
by: Jonah M. Lefholtz Note: Contains possible eating disorder triggers. A fourteen year old girl, having no way of controlling the chaos in her life, doesn’t eat. What little eating […]
Don’t Treat Your Friend Like a Handbag
by: Sarah Estime There’s a girl who was years before me in high school. She was kind of douchey when it came to relationships, she dated girls who fell in love […]
A Perverse, Misshapen Bliss: A Sixteen Year Old Views Francis Bacon’s Painting
by: Patrick Gill Many of Francis Bacon’s paintings are portraits or studies of the body; yet when first seen, the majority of what could be recognized as a human face […]
H-Day Approaching: Another Step in My Transition
by: Allison Mitchell Her name was Hormones. She sat by her phone, not exactly knowing the moment, but she knew the number. Her usual pickup point had produced a small envelope, inside […]
Entering a Whole New Reality: The Process of My Transition
by: K.J. Williams From a very young age, I knew I was different. Never mind the fact that I was fitted with hearing aids at age two and a half. […]
Used to Be: Love and Beach House
by: Addison Bell I can’t think about the past without thinking about music, because my memories correspond with a particular song or band. When I think about my childhood, I hear […]
Jack Kerouac Lied to Me: My Experience of Being On the Road
by: Calhoun Kersten Note: This is the first part of a two-part piece. The second installment will be published next week. In July of 1987, I was born. The youngest […]
Temporary Magic: The Time I Worked as a Magician’s Assistant
by: Joseph Erbentraut “We have an unusual assignment we’re looking to fill.” It was the throes of the Great Recession of 2008 — as I will explain to my cats’ […]
Sounds and the City: Noises from my Neighbors
by: Raechel T I have trouble sleeping when I travel places outside of a major city. For six years of my adult life, I lived in the hustle and bustle […]
