August 26, 2001

8:34 AM

She didn't feel the same way, and that was that.Crush.nu has formally ceased publishing stories. Jack mentions the possibility of a book (for which you are able to send submissions right now), but the project as it was on the web is no more than its archives. I know it hasn't been updated in quite a while, but I'm going to miss it terribly all the same. What will you miss most about it?
posted by moz (7 comments total)

I was driving on I 19 last Thursday and was thinking about Crush.nu. Weird. Small world I guess.
posted by jaynesbit at 11:00 AM on August 26, 2001

This is really disappointing. Crush was one of my favourite sites, in terms of late-night melancholia, and even up to this week, I was checking it regularly, praying for an update.

First Bittersweets and now this. Where am I going to go for my sadness hit?
posted by Marquis at 11:13 AM on August 26, 2001

if you haven't explored ember, marquis, you might want to try. ember suffered a similar fate (it's been closed for a while), but if you haven't been there, at least you can read some new content. some of the stories are really, really nice.
posted by moz at 11:52 AM on August 26, 2001

What will you miss most about it?

heh heh. hee hee. bwuHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! ...
posted by quonsar at 3:06 PM on August 26, 2001

i never even heard of crush.nu til i read this post, and now i'm checking out the archives.

how sad that it takes a site's closing for me to find it.
posted by wondergirl at 3:50 PM on August 26, 2001

Crap. Now if I point people to my piece (02.12.01  just like old times) it's a link to a defunct dot nu.

Well, not as bad as a dead dot com, but still.
posted by swerdloff at 7:38 PM on August 26, 2001

Thanks Moz - and I had indeed seen Ember. A couple of months ago, inspired by the unchanging Crush.nu, I went on a rabid hunt for similar sites. Ember and Bittersweets were the only two real alternatives I found, and both are defunct. What's nice about Bittersweets, of course, is that you can dump the archive into your Palm and get depressed on the bus!

Does anyone know of similar sites that aren't dead?
posted by Marquis at 6:45 AM on August 27, 2001