Purchase our new issue! Editor’s Note: Dear Reader, When we put out the call for work that explored “Heat,” we invited writers to approach heat as a state within and beyond temperature, flavor, intensity, and touch, to consider heat literally, figuratively, or somewhere in between. We sought work that complicated and confounded us, work that… [Read More]

by Lauren Aliza Green The table had been cleared, the bottle of vintage port emptied, the Los Angeles sun long set, when Steve, who until now had remained little more than a spectator to our conversation, breached his monastic stillness to ask, “Have you two ever considered swinging?”  Nate and I were seated across from… [Read More]

by Jackie Sabbagh It was a dark windy night in Manhattan and I was staring from across the street at the blue-green basalt frontispiece of the Museum of Sex where I had agreed to meet a man named Scott before our first date, whom I had met on a sugar-daddy website after he messaged asking… [Read More]

by Sofie Riley Since he’d arrived an hour ago, the house had grown crowded with bodies running warm, the air filling up with colored light and the gaseous weight of a hundred bong rips. In the living room, an eschatology student mumblerapped over an EDM beat through speakers that had the gain turned up twice… [Read More]