Harvest Moon By Eric Joyner Published in Issue 130, October 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 as drawing and […]
The Climb Up To Hell By Sean Eads & Joshua Viola Published October 2024, Issue 130 After Chet and David’s candles were lit, the five of us gathered at the base of the tree and Jake put his flashlight under his chin. “Time to explain the dark secret of Kingwood, ladies. This treehouse was built
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Published Issue 130, October 2024 Many years ago, I went on a date with a closeted queer who was still figuring out what gender and sexuality meant to them. I, fully immersed in my own liberated inner — and mostly outer — identity, pursued them nonetheless. On our second date, we got on the bus
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Werewolf Radar: No Woman No Criot By Nate Balding Art by Josh Keyes Published Issue 130, October 2024 A myriad precedents have been set for stories where the travails of coming-of-age are represented by otherworldly forces. Buffy, Wednesday, Harry Potter and The Blue Balls of Angst. Sure, the last one is slash fanfic (Hermione Granger/Luna
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Modern Fears By Caitlyn Grabenstein aka Cult Class Published Issue 130, October 2024 Caitlyn Grabenstein, a.k.a. Cult Class, is a collage artist, sketch artist, and designer out of Connecticut. She started doing art at a very young age and has pursued it in different forms throughout her life. While working in the music industry and
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 130, October 2024 Diavola by Jennifer Thorne The Pace family has decided on idyllic Tuscany for their family vacation, renting a massive villa in the Italian countryside. Anna, the pariah of the family, is dreading the inevitable drama stirred up by her siblings, their significant others and her
Lost City By Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 130, October 2024 Lost City is a hauntingly quiet place to explore. I wonder what happened here to make everybody disappear? Snag the original 20″ x 16″ acrylic painting on canvas of Lost City or grab a print on Flooko’s Etsy. Nick Flook aka Flooko is
A Wolf Called Wormwood By Joel Tagert Published Issue 130, October 2024 Remember to shut the door. Jon did not remember very much at this point. There had been a time, he knew, when his memory had been truly capacious, a prodigious palace whose pillars were a host of recondite systems and abstruse techniques for
Galactic Empire By Dave Danzara aka Lost In Time Published Issue 130, October 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 in pop culture, sci-fi, fantasy, film and
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 130, October 2024 American Culture – Hey Brother, It’s Been Awhile It would be too easy to compare this to an alchemical blend of influences Loveless, Screamadelica, George Best, Meat Puppets II and the first Stone Roses record. But the moment you get into the songs the