On Ghosting
To ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
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Join NOW!To ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
...moreYou stood and put your hair up. It made you a different man. You got hard and decided you were why.
...moreThere is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
...moreEach sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
...moreMalcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
...moreWhen I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”
...moreThe more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
...moreThere’s a connection between the longings of the characters I develop in my fiction and my urge to dominate.
...moreIf I am a sub poet, is poetry as a genre my dom? Is the particular poem I’m working on my dom?
...moreIsaac Oliver, author of Intimacy Idiot, talks to us about Grindr, OkCupid, different forms of intimacy, and being single in NYC.
...morePopular gay dating app Grindr crashed “within minutes” of the arrival of Olympic teams in London today — due to the spike in demand. “It happened almost as soon as the teams got here. Either loads of athletes were logging on to meet fellow Olympians or were looking to bag a local.” UPDATE: Well, that […]
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