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"A Near Death Experience" • Hellogoodbye (by Grant Ellsworth)
I wonder if the caveman held the orange in his hand and thought that stars might be the same stuff.
Aug 31, 20252 min read


“True Solace” • Linden Hollow (by James Croal Jackson)
thumbs in our ears to the tune of the losing football game
Aug 31, 20251 min read


"Moon Song" • Phoebe Bridgers (by Ashley Kirkland)
No surprises here: The blue jay dies.
Aug 31, 20252 min read


"Days of the Phoenix" • AFI (by Natalye Childress)
Mom and dad will say they raised us, but we did our growing up at 201 washington street.
Aug 31, 20252 min read


"The Joker" • Steve Miller Band (by Mallory Smart)
Just proof that we were there.
Aug 31, 20253 min read


"San Dimas High School Football Rules" • The Ataris (by Amy E. Casey)
What matters is that I can still feel it, twenty years later, true as a sore throat.
Aug 31, 20252 min read


Literary Mixtape Volume 24
On ebbs and flows.
Aug 31, 20254 min read


"The Pretender" • Jackson Browne (by Pierre Minar)
There’s Newark, New Jersey also to the left, stumpy and shabby, as my father drove north in 1992 to Jackson Browne on Light FM.
Jun 29, 20253 min read


"Shoulder to the Wheel" • Saves The Day (by D.T. Robbins)
They want to know more about when I was young.
Jun 29, 20253 min read


"Raining in Baltimore" • Counting Crows (by Thad DeVassie)
I reach for her hand and she withholds it.
Jun 29, 20253 min read


"Mary Jane's Last Dance" • Tom Petty (by Casey Jo Graham Welmers)
Our pupils dilated, our chapped lips moistened, our chilled feet tingled.
Jun 29, 20252 min read


"Spiderwebs" • No Doubt (by Travis Flatt)
The Minotaur misses his supper.
Jun 29, 20253 min read


Jun 29, 20253 min read


"Big Girls Don't Cry" • Fergie (by Adam Shaw)
My college girlfriend broke up with me using Fergie’s “Big Girls Don’t Cry."
May 25, 20253 min read


"Biblical Love" • Flower Face (by Isobel Bradshaw)
This is what she’s been looking for, maybe, right under her nose the whole time.
May 25, 20252 min read


"Horseshoe Crab" • Slothrust (by Stephanie Anderson)
the lookdowns and i have an understanding.
May 25, 20251 min read


"Praying" • Kesha (by Arya Vishin)
Have you ever felt like a dead man walking?
May 25, 20252 min read


“Linoleum” • NoFX (by Sarp Sozdinler)
Some things just need to scream.
May 25, 20253 min read


"The Art of Dying" • George Harrison (by David P. Miller)
Are you still with me?
May 25, 20253 min read


Literary Mixtape Volume 22
On schedules.
May 25, 20252 min read
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