MODERNSHAME

MODERNSHAME was created because misery loves company. it is a place for emails better left unsent, texts that should have stayed in the draft box, and other pieces of ourselves that we put out there too quickly because we can.

why share regretful correspondence? because we have all been there, and a collective cringe is so much better than a solitary one, alone behind your computer screen thinking unsend! take back! undo!

you can't take it back, but you can put it here.

SUBMISSIONS will be posted anonymously. this is a site for shedding dirt, not getting it. no names will ever be posted.

we want authentic, but not damning. we will XXXX-out any identifying details contained in your emails if you don't black them out yourself.

include a brief explanation of the email, your city and state, and consider yourself absolved.

modernshame@gmail.com
Mon May 5

might be contingent on that small detail

retrospectively, two weeks of ambiguous friend-dates might have been a little early for this onslaught of affection …
san diego, california
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xxxx,
hi. im wearing your tshirt and your deodorant. i smell like you. it’s nice. are you planning to be back in town for new years? i want to buy my tkt today and return date might be contingent on that small detail. telll meeee.
xxxx