Clank’s Dilemma By Gray Winsler Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 115, July 2023 “When Benji became sick, all of the playland became sick. For Benji was the Keeper of the Chest, the Boy King, the Great Imaginator. It was his imagination that powered their world, and as the disease dulled his thoughts, their world […]
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Return To Mills Island By Maggie Nerz Iribarne Art by Nick Flook Published in Issue 115, July 2023 Our island, Mills Island, sits in a spot where currents collide, ships crash and sink. We’re surrounded by old bones, death. We’re used to it. We remember our grandfather, the lighthouse keeper, telling us stories of bodies
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Afterlife as an aura photo booth By Kailey Tedesco Art by Jack Estenssoro Published Issue 115, July 2023 i keep sinning contained in stairwells. furniture, all caned, drops to its knees, prays. this is a confessional: do you see the checkerboard of a man lensed in red? underneath his chair: bubblegum, chewed, still wet. deeper
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Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 115, July 2023 Destiny Bond – Be My Vengeance Excepting opening track “Chew” and closing number “Harmony,” all these songs are under two minutes in classic hardcore vein. And there isn’t a wasted moment in Destiny Bond’s exploration and confrontation of the constraining, orthodox, binary worldview of
Art by Jason White Published as the Index of Issue 115, July 2023 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
Denver Is Burning: Following The Journey of Ballroom Culture from NYC to Denver By Quinn Fati & Erin Barnes Published Issue 115, July 2023 Celebrating queer culture and nightlife throughout the years and Meow Wolf’s partnership with House of Flora. We all remember the first time we ever saw Paris is Burning. A queer cinema
Art by Granmundo Published Issue 115, July 2023 This is Granmundo’s debut with Birdy. Stay tuned for more work by this multi-faceted artist.
Werewolf Radar: Last Dance With Buried Jane By Nate Balding Published Issue 115, July 2023 Hustler: It’s not just a wet magazine people have wildly claimed to have found in the woods before the invention of the internet. It’s also a full-on profession for people with the absolute moxie to operate tricky mind games on
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WHERE THE SHARKS SLEEP By Zac Dunn Art by BIZ56 Published Issue 115, July 2023 The 2×4 face he wore was firm and correct His crippled grip slipped on the Cold metal surfaces Cast of ore Dug from the Blood red dirt Anvil to the hand on purpose As a gaggle of gnomes feed him
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The Horizon By Caitlyn Grabenstein aka Cult Class Published as the Back Cover Issue 115, July 2023 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