Three Eyed Snowman By Mallory Hart Published Issue 096, December 2021 Mallory Hart is a professional artist and illustrator based out of Denver, Colorado. Inspired by the rustic, gritty, industrial side of the natural world, she renders a style that is both realistic and playful. Mallory specializes in watercolor but regularly works with acrylic and […]
Published Issue 094, October 2021 The first part of Many Carvings was published in Issue 084, October 2021. Click this pumpkin icon to finish where you left off reading in print. “Light the lamps, Alaster,” the boy’s mother said, lifting her needlework to squint at a stitch. Alaster lay on the floor, too obsessed with
Published Issue 087, March 2021 REPORT OF INVESTIGATION BY BIRDY EXAMINER: KRYSTI JOMÉI SUBJECT: DS THORNBURG OCCUPATION: I’ve been a business owner for many years. My partner and I sold the business, and currently I’m working hard to shift to being a full-time artist. RESIDENCE: I split time between Santa Cruz, CA and New Orleans, LA.
Hot Summer Getaways By Morgan Heslin Published Issue 083, November 2020 Morgan is an illustrator based in Denver. She has a B.F.A. in Illustration with a minor in Dramatic Writing from the Savannah College of Art & Design. She can be reached at morgan.heslin@gmail.com You can view more of her work (or even just send
THE KOBOLD By Joel Tagert Art by Jonny DeStefano Published Issue 082, October 2020 “Why did you bring her?” Collin asked as they got out of their vehicles beside the barn, frowning at the six-year-old girl hiding behind Alicia’s purple-velvet cloak. “Don’t be a dick,” Alicia said. “She’s my cousin and no one else could
QUEEN OF LIMBZ By Brian Serway Published Issue 082, October 2020 Brian Serway was born in southwest Virginia, grew up there and in southern Florida, and currently lives in Johnson City, Tennessee. He was raised by his mother who was an impressionistic oil painter, and encouraged him to create from a very young age Growing
SCARECROWS By Joshua Viola Art by Aaron Lovett Published Issue 082, October 2020 Scarecrows was previously published in Nightmares Unhinged: Twenty Tales of Terror (2015, Hex Publishers). ‡ “That’s mine,” Cody said, hoping he sounded tough — if he did, maybe he wouldn’t have to fight them. “Give it back.” “Newbie wants his little cap back,” Rich,
TEA FOR THE ETERNAL EMPEROR By Joel Tagert Art by Dylan Fowler Published Issue 081, September 2020 Despite the thin air and the cold, Pleven and Emma spent nearly the entire eight-hour flight across the Cauldron on the observation deck, talking together and looking eagerly at the roiling clouds below them, lit intermittently by flashes
MAKING IT THROUGH: QUINN IN QUARANTIMES Interview By Carsen Greene Photos courtesy of Quinn Tincher Published Issue 081, September 2020 The Meow Wolf artist talks miniatures, mountains and making art through COVID-19 Quinn Tincher, founding member and Senior Artist at Meow Wolf, is still making and creating from his home. He’s been in quarantine, along
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MANY NOBLE NAMESBy Jason HellerArt by Luke StackpooleBest of Birdy: Story Originally Published Issue 009, August 2014 Blood was nothing new on that boulevard. Trails of it appeared on the sidewalks about once a month, shed we assumed by someone beaten or stabbed during the night. Sometimes the blood looked like rust. Other times it