By Carly Schwarz There were many men, probably as many years she’d lived (twenty-eight), but Naomi couldn’t be sure. When she was younger she’d kept track of the men she’d conquered, like the countries she’d traveled to in order to seem cultured: Japan, England, Italy, and even Iran. She would tell her mother about these …

By Ryan Moreno 2003:   Play catch with your brother and the babysitter who sometimes teaches you addition and sometimes watches TV. Your brother keeps dropping the ball and tries to redeem himself by showing off his new vocabulary. Scrunch up your face when he calls you a lesbian. Neither of you know what it …

By Lauren Frazier I’m very good at falling out of love with the people I’m in relationships with. It happens slowly—as I lose respect for them for one reason or another—paving the way for complete apathy and thinly veiled disdain. Usually it happens over a couple of weeks or months. The love I feel evaporates, …