GOD K By Daniel Landes Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 143, November 2025 Dreamy was a late addition to our tour. She boarded the bus, disheveled in an expensive way, scuffed up Gucci slides, oversized Louis Vuitton hand bag stuffed with the kind of detritus accumulated in Pemex gas stations across Mexico. […]
De-evolution By Paul Jackson Published as the Centerfold Issue 143, November 2025 What once defined us — curiosity, connection, presence — is being eroded by constant exposure to screens and social media. We’re no longer evolving forward, but slipping backward. Our attention spans shorten, our critical thinking weakens, and our emotional depth flattens. We are
It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like By Brian Polk Art by Arna Miller Published Issue 143, November 2025 Unread Library Books, Unused Dental Floss, And A Pristine Yoga Mat Are All Reminders That The Me Of The Past Was Hopeful I Would Suddenly Become Someone Who Read A Book A Week, Flossed Regularly, And
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 143, November 2025 Broken Record – Routine One of the most emotionally resonant expressions of the complete and utter discrediting of not just the American Dream, but of the mid-century capitalist foundation of that notion. That all started to crumble in the mid-1970s, and America has been
The End of Stasis By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 143, October Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 083, November 2020 “What has been will be again,” intoned Preserver Lyons, “what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Forever and ever, amen.” He raised a
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 143, November 2025 The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey (2025) “Friendship has a way of re-revealing the things you know in such a way you can’t help but accept them.” A half step away from her previous fictional works, Catherine Lacey’s 2025 release combines autofiction and memoir in
No Kings By Graham Franciose Index of Issue 143, November 2025 No Kings — Stand up, resist, be peaceful, be safe, look out for one another ✊🕊️ Open edition print of original watercolor available on 230 gsm archival matte paper. Priced for everyone. Free shipping in the continental US. Graham Franciose grew up in the
Ampullae of Lorenzini By Zac Dunn Art by Joe Vaux Published Issue 143, November 2025 “Hammertime” by Joe Vaux inspired Zac Dunn to write Ampullae of Lorenzini. The fins twitch and wish to swim quickly over reefs and tiny fish not large enough to quell the hunger that pushes them invariably forward. Electric currents, so
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Art by Jason White Published Issue 143, November 2025 Jason White is an artist living in the suburbs of Chicago. His favorite mediums are oil on canvas and pencil & ink drawings. When he was a kid he cried on the Bozo Show. His work varies from silly to serious and sometimes both. Check out
When we first connected with Joe Cappa back in 2021 his horror comedy short, Ghost Dogs, was just selected into Sundance Film Festival. It was pretty undeniable that he was destined for something big. As big as the Campbell boys in his Adult Swim series Haha, You Clowns, premiering on Adult Swim October 19th and
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