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LOVE BITES: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE
LOVE BITES: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE

From mendacious phone calls to duplicitous gaslighting, our contributors share their encounters with relationship Pinocchios.

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XO MagazineMarch 11, 2024
APART FROM MY AWAKENING
APART FROM MY AWAKENING

But, I must confess something to myself too: I don’t think I’ll ever get over her. Does anyone ever move past their first?

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Gabrielle YuanXO MagazineMarch 7, 2024
SUMMER LOVER
SUMMER LOVER

i felt robbed, like i’d arrived at a breathtaking landscape only to find i’d lost the ability to see.

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Mason ScurryXO MagazineFebruary 11, 2024
SONGS THAT REMIND ME OF BOYS
SONGS THAT REMIND ME OF BOYS

Sometimes heartbreak is just the loss of a fantasy, or the realization that you can’t love someone into loving you.

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Violetta BalkoffXO MagazineFebruary 11, 2024
SLEEP TIGHT AND DON'T LET THE INTERNET BITE
SLEEP TIGHT AND DON'T LET THE INTERNET BITE

I oozed out of my mother with the dark promise of a first and only daughter, adding stress to her world with my red cheeks and fleshy limbs.

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Jana KellyXO MagazineNovember 7, 2023
TO THE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO LOVE ME
TO THE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO LOVE ME

It's funny how we were so intertwined with devastation. And it's funnier still, how I continue to believe that you could've loved me anyways.

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R.L.XO MagazineNovember 7, 2023
CHOCOLATE AND MINT
CHOCOLATE AND MINT

No matter how much I wanted to be happy for him, it never lasted. I always ended up picturing the great “what if?”

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Ashley Castaneda, Violetta BalkoffXO MagazineMay 19, 2023
TO THE PEOPLE STILL HAUNTING MY DREAMS
TO THE PEOPLE STILL HAUNTING MY DREAMS

Like a dent in the gums from a lost tooth, and the tongue keeps lingering over it again and again.

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R.L.XO MagazineApril 18, 2023
LOVE BITES: TROUBADOURS AND TOBLERONES
LOVE BITES: TROUBADOURS AND TOBLERONES

In a world of fast cars and even faster company, perhaps it is by dwelling on these moments of loving, meaningful exchange that we can begin to truly appreciate the people with whom we are gifted.

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XO MagazineMarch 13, 2023
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