So you’ve already spilled your guts and told us all about your ex, but still feel you’ve got some relationship demons to exercise? Why not head over to Why My Ex Sucks and submit your story. WMES is currently looking for submissions of three reasons why your former significant other sucked and how they had [...]

It’s a phenomenon we can all relate to: You go out for drinks with some friends and everyone is having a great time. As the night progresses and more drinks are consumed, you start to think about all of your friends who are not present and all the things that you need to say to [...]

It goes without saying that love is complicated. Regardless of whether it seems like an unending marathon of romantic bliss or doomed from the start, you can rest assured that, for better or worse, it’s going to get interesting. 
Our friends over at Salon are currently running an awesome new bi-weekly feature titled Americans Talk About Love [...]

In modern society, a pretty decent amount of our flirting takes place in the form of cell phone messages. Whether it be in the form of text, photo or video, cell phones provide a low-stakes medium for proposition each other without running the risk of being called a pervert to your face. But what do [...]

With each trip we take we’re building our personal story library. And if anything beats a good travel story, it’s total disaster travel story. The kind where things went so spectacularly awry that it seems as if there is no way it could have actually happened–only it did.
The Accidental Extremist is a place to share [...]

 
There are a million different ways to tell a story in the 21st century. The options can even be overwhelming and sometimes we forget that there are ways to tell our stories beyond simply getting them down on paper. The video essay is one of many new and often overlooked mediums available to the modern [...]

Maybe you spent years looking for the perfect fixer-upper—or maybe you lost it all when the real estate bubble burst. Whether you live in a Park Slope co-op or a split-level ranch, you can probably say something about housing in just six words. Mary Elizabeth Williams, who spent the better part of three years house [...]

Someone who was particularly clever when it came to food metaphors once said, “Pizza is a lot like sex. When it’s good, it’s really good. And when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.” And while I’m a firm believer in this quote, I think it’s safe to say that we all have at least one [...]

 
With the election of Barack Obama spawning a seemingly never-ending supply of thoughtful, quality writing all over the internet, our friends at New Millennium Writings have decided to have an Obama-themed writing contest to commemorate this historic time in our millennium.
In addition to nonfiction, NMW is also accepting fiction and poetry submissions on the subject [...]

For as long as human beings have been able to write, sex and death have been the topics of choice. And after all, our fascination is no surprise when you consider that these two subjects are on the very short list of things that all people have in common. Regardless of your class, color or [...]