Spend most of the family party daydreaming: visiting dive bars down the river, throwing back bourbon, taking home a rough man. Want to be punished. Always want to be taken apart. What if you run […]
Water Myth (Purgatory Story) [Benjamin Niespodziany]
after Evan Nicholls A shoebox of water weighs more than the rain. A melon of puddle. An apple of dirt. A hearse turns on its hearing aid to listen to the sea. It’s late. You […]
How Meat Could Be The Next Big Thing (Matt Rowan)
I found the heart pumping and spurting blood from its many severed veins. I was already running late for my important meeting. It seemed like fate. It seemed like fate because I was also completely […]
Canals (Wilson Koewing)
Before leaving Amsterdam, I stopped by a canal hugging the red-light district. I sat against a tree and let my feet hang over the edge. I’d enjoyed a spliff at a shop not far away […]
What to make of it all now? (H. R. Gibs)
I’ve made myself good so many times that my very edgeshave blurred like a penciled line scrubbed too many timesWith old pink rubber. I sit in this light wet end of July andTry to visualise […]
Notes from the Train (Twishaa)
Woman enters train. One seat is empty. Next to Tupi wearing, paan-chewing man. She takes it. At the first stop, a seat beside me is vacated. Woman gets up and sits next to me. At […]
Las Tardes Con Los Muertos (Elizabeth R. McClellan)
after @notaleptic he shakes his headinto the walls of his face: ‘ “los muertos no hablan”y no algun más “¿por que?” I ask,receive no answer. Tio Juan sees ghostspero él está envejeciendo; él no oye […]
Interview with Andrew Bryant (D.T. Robbins)
If you’re not listening to Andrew Bryant, get your shit together and start. I’ve known AB for a really long time (we think) from our youth group days. His new album, Sentimental Noises, came out […]
Goodbye, Sven (Devin Kate Pope)
It costs two hundred dollars to humanely put a bird to sleep. That’s significantly less than the one thousand it costs for the MRI to see if surgery is possible. And the surgery is still […]
Rejection Letters 