Accusations, Recriminations, Lamentations, Imputations By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Once A Year For My Birthday, I Allow Myself 14 Minutes Of Uninterrupted Happiness It’s a gift that I very much look forward to receiving, though last year I only gave myself 13 minutes because it started to fucking rain. Do What You Love […]
No Escape From the Storm By Joel Tagert Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 102, June 2022 The storm kept coming. The first time Kadi and Aliya were in the drive-thru of a Burger King in Fruita, Colorado. Kadi was behind the wheel of her car, a 2003 Ford Taurus she’d bought for eleven hundred
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Strings By Jason Heller Art by Jason White Published Issue 101, May 2022 The wound steel buzzes beneath my finger. It’s the G string, the thinnest and highest. I play it way up past the twelfth fret, letting the A and D strings drone open while muting the E string with my thumb, wrapped around
Rumors, Idle Talk & Fireside Chats By Brian Polk Art by Jason White But What If I Find Myself Momentarily Uncomfortable? As I continue to ungracefully age, I find myself asking this question every time I leave the house. Every time. What if it gets cold? I think. What if it gets too hot? I
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Filthy Animals By Joel Tagert Art by Nick Flook Published Issue 101, May 2022 You have to let me go. Don’t be stupid. Me and this suit weigh a hundred kilos easy. You don’t remotely have the strength to pull me out. Work with me here. Listen! Let me go, climb back to solid ground
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Published Issue 100, April 2022 Best of Birdy Originally Published Issue 015 The knock at the door comes at 2:30 a.m. I am alone and awake to greet it. I pad down the hall in soft socks and weak shadows, my shoulder blades twisting beneath my skin like insects trapped in a napkin. Charlie says
Some Things To Think About By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 100, April 2022 The Person I Was Telling A Story To Walked Away Mid-sentence, So I Will Finish Telling The Story To The Guy Who Happened To Be Standing Nearby I was trying to recount a funny anecdote that happened last
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King Sargasso By Joel Tagert Art by Moon Patrol Published Issue 0100, April 2022 Elizabeth Cartwright was famous enough that she knew to wear a wide-brimmed straw hat tied below her chin with a black ribbon, like a nun’s wimple, when she went out boating; not because it would stop the paparazzi from taking photos,
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Idle Chatter, Ins And Outs, And Various Other What-have-yous By Brian Polk Art by Jason White Published Issue 099, March 2022 I’m Not Even Very Mindful About My Lack Of Mindfulness. I’m so shitty at being mindful that it doesn’t even bother me that I’m not mindful. In fact, I hardly ever think of it.
The Bones of the Earth By Joel Tagert Art by Peter Kornowski Published Issue 099, March 2022 Even among his own people, Lhakpa Tshering was known as a great sojourner and famous guide. This reputation was the natural result of summiting the murderous peaks of Kanchenjunga, Nanga Parbat and many others, but he had also
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