Texting
Shouts & Murmurs
You’ve Matched! Now Chat
“You tell me where the line is. Not tryna cross no lines over here!”
By Will Stephen
Shouts & Murmurs
Dear Pepper: A Text Relationship and Building a Community
Keeping perspective in a remote romance and the slightly demeaning things that one needs to do to make adult friends.
By Liana Finck
Blitt’s Kvetchbook
Let It Snow
The President finds himself buried in wintry precipitation as he focusses on his tweets.
By Barry Blitt
Shouts & Murmurs
Other Communications from the Guy Who Sends “U up” Texts
E-mail to H.R.: “Hi do I have benefits and ira roth. Asking for a friend.”
By Henry Giardina
Front Lines Dept.
The Rules of Textavism
On a typical day, the theatre director Oliver Butler sends three thousand texts urging political action.
By Anna Russell
Shouts & Murmurs
If Guys Knew How to Correctly Interpret My Texts
Me: Your friend Billy is a character. Guy: We shall never speak of him again.
By Ginny Hogan
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Americans Want Alert System Enabling Mueller to Text Them When This Emergency Is Over
Poll respondents were amenable to a broad array of methods by which the special prosecutor might deliver such news.
By Andy Borowitz
Shouts & Murmurs
Relationships That Ended Prematurely Because Someone Left a Text Question Unanswered
By Ginny Hogan
The Writer’s Voice
Kristen Roupenian Reads “Cat Person”
Kristen Roupenian reads her story from the December 11, 2017, issue of the magazine.