The Sleeper By Joel Tagert Art by Graham Franciose Published Issue 144, October 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 108, December 2022 At other Arctic villages the Felix and its crew had been variously greeted with astonishment, alarm or hostility, to be expected in places where the inhabitants had never seen Europeans, much less […]
Werewolf Radar: Hermit of North Pond By Nate Balding Published Issue 144, December 2025 Originally Published Issue 096, December 2021 Depending on your age the word hermit tends to conjure one of three images: Weird religious loner, a musician enslaved by a man named Herman or a scary forest sage to be accidentally found while
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Published Issue 144, December 2025 In a year of outstanding, meaningful releases across all realms of music here are a mere 44 albums that stood out and commanded repeated listens. Anna von Hausswolff – ICONOCLASTS Transcendent, elemental, operatic darkwave jazz drone. Black Moth Super Rainbow – Soft New Magic Dream Post-synthwave dream pop for abandoned
When The Wistful Are Forgiven By Brian Polk Art by Hari Ren Published Issue 144, December 2025 A Wistful Letter To The People We Used To Be There are still a few leaves defiantly clinging to the maple tree in our old front yard. I love watching them flutter in the cold winter breeze. I
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 2025 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
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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