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Corazón de Cuetlaxochitl

Jun 1, 2026 | ,

By Angelina Leaños Could you hear it then—the queerness between me and my lover? Or did you gather us earlier in the car, her nose and mine embracing unlike amigas normales? I forget the fibers of your face when I introduced her...

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Love Letter #1 (to Kami)

Jun 1, 2026 |

By Tabs   Kami, I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you Jesus fuck I fucking love you! Not only do I love you, but I do it with this frightening sort of totality; like the sincerest of solar eclipses, laden...

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Dear Torii

Jun 1, 2026 |

By Tricia Knoll Your parents named you after gates at sacred shrines. In last night’s dream, I wrote you a letter, knowing you died fifty years ago of breast cancer. I mentioned new windows in the children’s museum where we...

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Love letter to my family

Jun 1, 2026 | ,

By Alyssa Walker This is Family. It is the blurred lines of true friendship and romance and pure unadulterated adoration burning love that spills from the basement of your essence entwines their stardust with yours rooted to...

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Dear Nan

Jun 1, 2026 | ,

By Mya Lucia Of all the wisdoms you taught me in life, “everyone will be bisexual one day” was, and always will be, the most significant I can remember one of the many times you said it in my childhood, in the car, driving the...

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Dear A

Jun 1, 2026 | ,

By Maxine Bette I kissed you when you asked me to that summer on the farm. You said you wanted to practice for boys You said you were an asshole magnet, grinned like you couldn’t help it Ewes in the pasture memorized your face...

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Girl of the Bridge

Jun 1, 2026 |

By Robin J. Bartley Content advisory: suicidal ideation   Act 1 Hello, girl of the bridge. It’s been quite some time since I’ve thought of you last. How long ago was it that I was passing your photo beside the now chained...

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Dear Eve,

Jun 1, 2026 |

By Karrah Bates I never told you that I loved you. I can’t remember why I didn’t. But I promise: I will never forget that the love was there.  Our late night drives and the warmth of your fingers between mine have forever folded...

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Delayed Confession

May 31, 2026 |

By Tanya Bowers Spring break 1991, I flew home to Los Angeles from Connecticut. My mother took me to lunch at a neighborhood sushi restaurant. I planned to make the most of our time together by delivering the lines I’d rehearsed...

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