“Merciless Reverence” by Iryna Somkina
Merciless Reverence
You spend your days vivisecting words, carrying the dead weight of everyone else’s sentences until your brain forgets how to shut off. I refuse to give you more text to parse. I want to give you the one thing you cannot edit: absolute, dark, heavy quiet. It wouldn’t be about conquering you; it would be an act of total reverence
Sep 9
Three poems by Johnny Hollywood
The Thinking Man Heard the News I heard the news today. Iran. Home. I can’t believe This Israel Ukraine Your neck To get a look And everyone’s Russian To get away From the slaughter. War. It’s senseless. Iran Home To my family In Iran But they’re all blown up and dead. And bloody and killed. And starving. To think, None of this would’ve happened If we were all just The same race. The human race. White. Flag. I wave. For a ceasefire. Because we need a truce And we need some tr
Sep 2
Creating Engaging Short Stories That Stick With You
ok, so here i am, jayne, your existential guide
Jul 14
“Are You a Palantir Girl?” by Penelope Dieppa
In February 2026 an account under @PalantirGirls was launched on X, showcasing images of female celebrities in mock propaganda posters in favor of Palantir, an American tech company focused on military software/hardware along with data aggregation for private companies and Western governments. Female celebrities have been AI edited to wear MAGA hats, Israeli flags, or to hold small grenades and missiles; all behind slogans taken directly from Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts
May 27
"Death Mask" by Jacob Patrick Brooks
I have a hard time getting up in the winter and today it was especially bad. It’s the cold, the dark, and how frigid my room is outside of my bed, especially with my dog still sleeping with her head poking out of the covers. She’s like a tiny furnace that has nails and perfect little needle teeth. She’s my entire world. I would be lost without her. I eventually get up, get dressed and after swallowing my guilt, drive to work. I find a parking spot quickly and I’m getting out
Apr 22
"Urns" excerpt by J.L. Moultrie
URNS CHAPTER 1 VEGA before the void emptiness and dross lined the river’s edge you were reading freud hardly there what i avoid gathers in like faces in family portraits i’d not seen myself before forged stars unseen in a sequence of blighted leaves David woke up coughing, but continued lying in bed, listening to the cicadas. He’d just moved in with his older sister from his aunt’s project apartment, along with his mom. He stood and turned off the whirring, stationary fa
Feb 13
"The Sudden Disappearance of Heather Valley-Lowes" by Tania Jaramillo
They were saying Heather had been taken by the universal killer. The universal killer was also a famous writer, who published his writings on substack under the title of internet mystic
Jan 11
"Donn" by John Lynch
Departing a hike that had failed to relieve his homicidal ideation, Donn eyed his Mercedes in the distant parking lot and shuddered at what appeared to be a man in a hooded sweatshirt rigging a bomb beneath the car’s front bumper.
Sep 12, 2025
"ACTING OUT" by Arno Calleja (tr. Katie Shireen Assef)
In chapter one, there’s a couple. The man has dark thoughts, the woman sexual ones. They live for years together in their separate...
Jan 8, 2025
"GALAXY DOOR" by Ryan Bry
If I had known that my doordasher was going to have to leave the galaxy in order to pick up my Korean street chicken I would have just...
Nov 27, 2024


