The Outcast By Gray Winsler Art by Graham Franciose Published Issue 124, April 2024 Unforgivable. That’s what she had said. Her own mother. How could she? I saved her. Shut up, Liwen thought, chastising herself. This was not the time. She took a deep breath, trying to focus on the world around her. You cannot […]
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Published Issue 124, April 2024 A year has passed since the harrowing events that took place at the Colorado Festival of Horror (COFOH) with the enigmatic slasher, Killr™. A new mysterious figure emerges on the scene of this year’s cosplay convention adopting the grisly murderer’s persona. No one knows if it’s just another obsessive fan
Is It Just Me, Or Do You Ever Think About Things Like Licorice, Dying, World Domination, Beyond Both Bed & Bath And World Domination (Again)? By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 124, April 2024 If I Ever Open A Bar, I’m Going To Replace Eco-friendly Paper Straws With Red Vines That Were
SOLAR SIGNS by Beatie Wolfe x Aaron Rose Interview by Krysti Joméi Published Issue 124, April 2024 Multidisciplinary artists Beatie Wolfe and Aaron Rose present Solar Signs, an intermedia display of shadow poetry and sun prints. Solar-powered and made from only three ingredients: recycled letters, the sun, and time, the piece captures shadow words revealed
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Tea Garden By Eric Joyner Published as the Centerfold of Issue 124, April 2024 I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school, as well
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 124, April 2024 Dust City Opera – Cold Hands EP This latest release from the Albuquerque-based band has a cinematic resonance in the lushly orchestrated music throughout its six tracks. Paul Hunton’s warmly expressive vocals, reminiscent of John Grant circa his tenure in The Czars, syncs perfectly
In my next life, let me be after Natasha Rao By BEE LB Published Issue 124, April 2024 a rabbit or a bunny, little body, big teeth. let me sink into something crisp and sweet, let me nibble with delight, let me gorge myself on the garden someone else has planted, has tended to, has
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In The Dark Without A Weapon By Moon_Patrol Published Issue 124, April 2024 Moon_Patrol is a Northern California-based artist. Taking themes including 80s cartoons and video games, classic pulp illustrations, and comic book narratives, Moon Patrol remixes these many and varied cues using a collage technique he compares to “Kid Koala’s turntable albums, and in
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 124, April 2024 Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz (2023) Addiction and recovery are often portrayed as a relentless battle back to normalcy, a straight path from the absolute ruin caused by substance use leading to the grueling climb to recovery, one which is
I Read You By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Designs Published as the Index of Issue 124, April 2024 Albuquerque-based Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found