07: Now that we’re alone
Awkward Only Looks Good On Paulie Bleeker
By CARINA SANTOS DISCUSSED: A life dictated by too many John Cusack movies and my suckage at intimacy, among other things. I am a horrible flirt. I cannot act coy, or bat my eyelashes, or bite my lip, or sustain eye contact with (marginally, and sometimes not even) attractive people. It makes me uneasy and [...]
The Adventures of a Disappearing Girl
By FRANCESCA AYALA There’s a place I’d like to go somewhere out west, It’s not specific and the pictures show it best. I know there’s trees, I know there’s sand, I know there’s grass, I know it’s somewhere in the past. It’s been months since you pulled off what was possibly the world’s greatest disappearing [...]
Theater of Cruelty
By P. RAFAEL MERCADO Partition the First In which I audition for a Play for which I should not have auditioned and fall in love with one for whom I should not have fallen 1. Aristotle sez: “The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; [...]
Neon Lights at Midnight
Intimacy is that dizzying ride home after your high-octane night towards the inescapable lure of slumber – what have I done? How much cash did I burn on booze again? Will I get another tongue-lashing for going home barely an hour before daybreak? How will I drag myself through work? The way intimacy transitions into [...]
Getting to Know You
Songs that may merely facilitate intimacy, and not exactly discuss or explore it… I asked people about intimacy and the songs they associate with the word. I cautioned them about the first impressions of that concept, of the physicality it immediately implies, and asked them to veer away from the R. Kellys and the Careless [...]
Less Is More, Don’t You Think?
Intimacy and Back in Six-Word Stories Words By MIGS MARFORI Illustrations By REGINA BAUTISTA The intro to “Not Quite What I Was Planning,” Smith Magazine’s collection of Six-Word Memoirs tells of the legend that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story using just six words. He came up with: “For Sale: baby shoes, [...]
The Deathless Love We Swore to Protect with our Bodies is Stumbling Across its Bleak Ending
Those are not my words, they’re John Darnielle’s. If I had to choose one band/musician to describe the ending of my last long-term relationship–or at least to set a good story to good music–it would have to be The Mountain Goats. Not that my break-up is a good story, at least not in that way. [...]
Here It Goes
(or, you buttsexed my heart) By LIZ LONGBOURN DISCUSSED: Dressing up, Dressing down, Breaking up Alice Sarmiento ACCEPTING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR “Now that we are Alone…: The Intimacy Issue” Mixtapes, Breakup stories, Show and Tell, Interviews, send them to because [at] new-slang [dot] com So I see that on my Facebook feed, and I think, why [...]
I am Sorry for my Commitment Issues
A Mixtape About a Penchant for Emotional Unavailability. First things first, you must admit: unavailability is attractive. You have this quote-friend-unquote. You share beers, you share spit, you share the occasional cold bed which you warm every weekend after your friend convinces you that you are too drunk to go home. Just stay the night. [...]
At War With the Friend Zone
By YAGI OLAGUERA DISCUSSED: Dating, The Truth About Quicksand, Ryan Reynolds I can be a total idiot when it comes to dating. I’ve proven this time and time again in the almost two decades that I’ve attempted to chase after members of the fairer sex. Though I have had my share of success in that [...]
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