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2 poems by Emily Paskevics
We Were Never Lovers and we both know if it wasn’t for the vodka and that extra shot of rum you wouldn’t have walked me home, and you wouldn’t be here still if we weren’t both lonely as hell and boozing again. If we had real friends here in Montreal, or loved ones, or just someone else to fondle. We aren’t lovers. Urgency pressed us into this,
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Magic Time Machine Sex Machine by Sarah Sorensen
So, you win the lotto, science evolves, and some other supernatural shit happens and you score a magic time machine sex machine. This thing looks like hamster tubing, or some kinda Marty McFly vehicular thing. It looks like Keanu Reeves in a phone booth or a sparkly door. Doesn’t matter. Don’t care.
An interview with Guido Mattioni
Guido Mattioni is an Italian journalist who has written for a variety of daily newspapers over the past 33 years. Holding titles ranging from reporter to editor-in-chief to special correspondent, he’s traveled
Amphetamine Heart by Liz Worth
Reviewed by Gabino Iglesias There’s a very poetic moment to which many of us want to return as often as possible. You’re sitting at a bar, waxing poetically about the end of the world. Outside,
3 poems by Charish Halliburton
Searching for Marvin Gaye Wet face, tired arms, sore throat. Look at you carrying on, carrying the dead weight that Zora said you would. Put him down, he’s too heavy for you You need melody on the wind What happened to those days of thumbing though vinyl until modernity pulled us by our collars? Only
Rooftop by T.F. Rhoden
The Nigerian study-abroad student sat facing her laptop, somewhat hypnotized by the cursor’s blinking metronome. Beginning an essay was always the most difficult step, she thought. Outside her shared dorm room, down the hallway, a coed screamed playfully. Nkoyo turned away from the blank document toward
Alyson Miers on the end of the world: Charlinder’s Walk blog tour
In 2012, the Plague ended the world as we know it. In 2130, Charlinder wants to know why. The origin of the disease remains a mystery. Ignorance of its provenance fuels a growing schism that threatens to destroy the peace that the survivors’
The Glorieta Pass by Chris O’Grady
Reviewed by Laura Roberts Chris O’Grady’s novel The Glorieta Pass follows a tough customer, Wilder, from being a day late and a dollar short to the town of Thomaston’s most wanted
Good Morning by Ryan Nelson
"The Holy Grail of the Mini Wheats world" (photo by grammardog) A Mini-Wheat eyes me warily from the bathroom floor. “Don’t worry,” I say. “I won’t throw you away today.” Droopy red marker
Bulbs by Leah Kaminsky
Since the car crash, Lisa’s love life had cycled in strict monthly units. They strung together like cheap Christmas lights on cinder block dorm walls: all that blinking and buzzing, all that petering out. "bumble star blows a
