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Welp, Looks Like I’m Spinning My Wheels At The End of The World Again By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 146, February 2026 I Threaten To Quit My Job About As Often As I Threaten To Quit Drinking, But As Long As I Keep Doing One, I’ll Definitely Have To Keep Doing […]

By Gray Winsler Art by Moon_Patrol Published Issue 146, February 2026 Best of Birdy Originally Published Issue 105, September 2022 You have no idea of the life that exists just beneath your toes. I sure as hell didn’t, not back in ‘66. Spent my whole life walking atop this earth, never given much thought to

Mingus Rides North By Joel Tagert Published Issue 146, February 2026 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 053, May 2018 Mingus rode north and Death rode with him. Mingus was, or had been, a canary. Death was this Swedish kid named Niclas he’d picked up hitchhiking outside Billings. Kind of a strange kid, truth be

THE CAVE By Zac Dunn Art by Curtis Bergesen aka Collage The World Published Issue 146, February 2026 The test strips  Turned blue in urine cups  Or Kool-Aid given in haste  Or communion of conditions  Plastered upon Parisian buttresses  And ramparts flippant and forgiven  Moats full of eels and trout spout ROE that bubble light

Published in Issue 145, January 2026 As if losing her job wasn’t bad enough, now Deb had to contend with the demon she’d summoned and a friend who was “deeply concerned” about the choices she was making. “Do you think you might be self-sabotaging, just a little bit?” Sybil asked. “Well, I didn’t exactly fire

The The Assassination of Snuffkin McGillis By Joel Tagert Art by Hari Ren Published Issue 145, January 2026 Best of Birdy, Story Originally Published Issue 028, April 2016 Snuffkin had been exsanguinated. Normally, when Patty McGillis woke up in the morning, her cat was one of two places: sitting on her pillow meowing demandingly, or,

What I’ve Learned From The Fine People of TV By Brian Polk Published Issue 145, January 2026 From David Rose: Judging The People Who Are Having More Fun Than You Is Not As Much Fun As Having Fun On the show Schitt’s Creek, David Rose is at a housewarming slumber party where they’re playing Spin

The Forest By Addison Herron-Wheeler Published in Issue 145, January 2026 Best of Birdy, Originally Published In Issue 028, April 2016 Arika lifted her face from the dirt and looked to the clouds. She could see the drones above her head, circling, and she could hear their calls, in her mind. She shivered and dropped

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