Just Like The Rest Of Us, I Forget All My Good Ideas By Brian Polk Published Issue 125, May 2024 One Time Six Of My Friends Went To Play Soccer But We Were All So Out Of Shape, Everyone Just Started Playing Goalie I don’t know if you’ve seen an “all goalies” version of soccer, […]
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Desert Abduction By Peter Kornowski Published Issue 125, May 2024 The last three nights were spent glued in the lawn chairs waiting for it to return. They hadn’t believed their own eyes and became fixated on seeing it again. Occasionally a strange noise would prompt one of them to scan the brush with the flashlight,
Booji Boy Holding DEVO’s First 7″ Vinyl Single Photo From Mark Mothersbaugh: Myopia Published Issue 125, May 2024 Booji Boy (pronounced “Boogie Boy”) is the frontman of DEVO, as described by Mark Mothersbaugh’s 1978 book, My Struggle by Booji Boy. The roots of the character come from the band discovering a baby mask in an
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 125, May 2024 Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories (2024) Two Lines Press, of the Center for the Art of Translation, continually seeks out spectacular literary voices, publishing works of translation and exposing English language readers to authors from around the world. In 2020,
Quiet Please By Graham Franciose Index of Issue 125, May 2024 Quiet Please is a watercolor and gouache painting on tan Rives BFK cotton rag. Graham Franciose grew up in the forests of Massachusetts. His work reaches back to those times of exploration and imagination, where anything was possible. His whimsical, sometimes emotional, illustrations show
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 125, May 2024 Absynth Minded – s/t On the surface this debut full-length from Absynth Minded is a surprisingly effective amalgam of ska, doom and thrash. And with Keith Sanchez on vocals and guitar, and Leonard Leal on bass and backing vocals, the pedigree is there for
Two Spot Octopus By Pamela Easton Published in Issue 125, May 2024 Pacific Two Spot Octopus from the Life on the Monterey Bay collection. Oil on canvas board. Pamela Easton is a Capitola, CA-based artist and 3rd generation Real Estate Professional. This is Pamela’s debut with Birdy. Keep your eyes peeled for more work by
Save The Day, A Tidepool Meditation By Laura Celise Lippman Published Issue 125, May 2024 Some days, a quiet stillness pervades Puget Sound’s brooding edge, rippling, tentative, deep. I cherish that piece of peace as the sea lets me be. Kelp breathes as it oscillates, dancing to a hushed melody, shimmying with the tide. Small
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Tortoise and Hare By Eric Joyner Published in Issue 125, May 2024 This painting depicts the classic fable of The Tortoise and The Hare with a robot twist, some donuts and a beautiful view of Portland, OR. About Eric Joyner: I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly
The Coney Trilogy (Choerogyllius) By Zac Dunn Published Issue 125, May 2024 Robust Darker Taller Hip hopping across the flat fields Furrowed and turned but rallied by The barking that calls and crawls up the walls As the wee ones dream of carrots And sunshine, so sublime The hive mind connects to predators And foes