(Hint: our new columnist is the fantastic Andrew Knott) — Here at PS I Love You, we entered spring with cautious enthusiasm. Vaccines were rolling out. Warmer weather was (almost) here. For each of the preceding 12 months, we’d been reading and publishing stories that, though excellent, revolved around 2020’s now familiar themes: the disorientation of isolation; virtual schooling; loss…

Thank you to all who submitted for the prompt! — So, another Valentine’s Day has come and gone. And this one was… lonelier… and quieter… than most. But! It was made less so by the wonderful stories, poems, and essays you all sent in as part of our holiday prompt. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who participated…

Much has changed since Valentine’s Day 2020. A year ago, couples were celebrating in restaurants and theaters, without masks or concern. Parents were finding babysitters for their kids, so they could enjoy a night out. …

P.S. I Love You’s Year in Review — 2020has been memorable for mostly the wrong reasons. But so, too, has it been memorable for the writing it inspired. We were lucky enough to publish some of it at P.S. I Love You. Below are a few of our favorites. From vivid, hair-raising fiction to disarming reflections on race…

P.S. I Love You’s year-in-review — 2020 has been memorable for mostly the wrong reasons. But so, too, has it been memorable for the writing it inspired. We were lucky enough to publish some of it at P.S. I Love You. Below are a few of our favorites. From vivid, hair-raising fiction to disarming reflections on…

PS I Love Newsletter #87 — July is the hottest month of the year, and we got the stories prove it. And for all our friends in the Southern Hemisphere enduring winter … pull up a chair and warm your hands on these summer tales. #SummerLove Writing Prompt We’ve all had one — that summer fling. A romance born…

PS I Love You Newsletter #85 — Hey friends, Can you ever read “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” (George Orwell, 1984) without getting chills? Or “It was the day my grandmother exploded.” (Iain Banks, The Crow Road) without a rush of curiosity? Well, we’ve got a week’s worth…

The Best Essays, Fiction & Poetry of the Week — We are jammin’ this Sunday, friends! In Scenes from a One-Month Stand, Emma Jane LaPlante gives us a lyrical autobiographical story, and sets us up for a dazzling Poetry Sunday. I told him my theory: That there’s something sinister about Fairyland, off-kilter & vaguely macabre, as if Alice dreamed up its old-timey carnival rides &…

PS I Love You Newsletter #83 — Hey Friends, My father is 86 years old. Now that I live 2000 miles away from him, he calls me every morning to ask the same question: Hey babe. How’s the writing going? (He also rants about politics, complains about his boring, no-sugar diet, and reminds me to get my…