a conversation on gender identity across the generations

while grieving a relationship, our protagonist meets an old woman on the beach. Things escalate from there. Love, loss, and acceptance abound in this short fiction by Phoebe Demeger.

Ishy plays with time and perspective in The Immense Difficulty of Intimacy, a tale of love stories, intertwined.

a lonely character in a foreign country reminisces on a lost love.

L. E Yates tells of an open marriage where unspoken tensions are high in Cheating is Sexier

Andrew Kaye documents the first few weeks of lockdown in Spain.

grief, (un)dying love and eels feature in this portrait of rural loneliness by Alex King.

read Isabella Bambagioni (@ibambz) in this beautifully illustrated piece ft. anxiety, wlw, and battling with your underwired bras.

never have mediocre anal sex again after reading this piece by Edward Garvey-Long. Pornstars, Berlin, anal douching and triumph all feature in this brilliant meditation on desire, power, and politics of the heart.

S R Shah writes about masturbation, body politics, Islam, systems of policing and forms of empowerment in this article-slash-manifesto.

sometimes, the realisation that you really value your personal space only happens when your personal space is compromised. Themes of isolation, mushrooms and the erotic grow in abundance in this fiction piece by Brodie Crellin.

“Everywhere feels like a war zone and I never know when I’ll step on a bomb to the heart.”

read about the exhaustion of experiencing everyday whiteness in the workplace, the vulnerability brought about by big city capitalism, and Audre Lorde. Amanda helps us feel less alone and motivated to survive at all costs. <3

read 1990s chris’ short fiction about going down the chatroom rabbit hole in the digital darkness and turning URL flirtations into IRL encounters.

'Coccyx' by Polis Loizou interrogates the not-so-hidden queer stories of an individual family’s folklore under religious rules and influences.

read travis alabanza’s poem/cautionary tale about the inescapability of post-mortem gender categorising.

a heartbreaking story of young love intertwined with illness

a poem about the purity of friendship

for those of us who are in love with death. Sit back, lock your doors and windows and relax with this slice of homoerotic, bone-tingling horror.

Joawe/焦澄 writes genre-bending letters to love.

a love that goes beyond the grave