Why We Are Whispering By Jason Heller Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 085, January 2021 Best of Birdy | Originally Published in Issue 068, August 2019 Amy never meant to build an automaton. She didn’t know how to make anything. Nevertheless in her basement one day she heaped laundry baskets and car batteries and […]
SHORT FICTION By Brian Polk Art by Future Fantasy Delight Published Issue 085, January 2021 Workout Apps Are A Lot Of Work “How long did you have the app?” I asked him. Pete had told me about this workout app that he downloaded, but then I kind of zoned out and missed some of the
THE END OF STASIS By Joel Tagert Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 083, November 2020 “What has been will be again,” intoned Preserver Lyons, “what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Forever and ever, amen.” He raised a hand to the great crowd of faithful in
FRED’S NEW RAVENOUS INTEREST By Jonny DeStefano Art By Kristen Michael By Best of Birdy Issue 027, March 2016 As Greg Sampson awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself in his bed transformed into an enormous peanut butter and jelly sandwich. He was lying on his soft, bready back and when he lifted
MY EXISTENTIAL DOCTOR HERB, PART XV By Brian Polk Art by Jack Estenssoro Published Issue 083, November 2020 I have a lot to discuss with my existential doctor Herb this month, because I realized something big — a breakthrough of sorts. Of course, I’ve had breakthroughs before. Some of them linger in my mind for
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Published Issue 082, October 2020 Listen, big bottle of wine, you failed me. You were supposed to provide me with days of alcohol goodness with your plentiful liters of abundance. But instead, you lasted only three hours — two if you don’t count the 30 minutes it took to get you home from the liquor
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Stanley Kaiju and the Subterranean Bunny Defenders Go Underground. By Elisa Sargent Illustration by Daniel Crosier Coloring by Kevin Waltz In recent years, as many of you may know, this reporter has settled down in Denver, and I have generally kept my stories in Denver and about Denver events, however, the story I have for my
QUEEN CITY SOUNDS By Tom Murphy Published Issue 081, September 2020 Blackcell – Burn the Ashes Denver-based EBM/IDM band Blackcell returns with its first full-length album since 2013’s In the Key of Black. Matt Jones’ processed, distorted vocals sound as ever like a dispossessed human resisting an ever-increasing mechanization of life. These dark dance songs
QUEEN CITY SOUNDS By Tom Murphy Published Issue 080, August 2020 A Shoreline Dream – Melting With its first release since 2018’s Waitout EP, A Shoreline Dream presents a set of songs that seems less ethereal than their previous output. From opening track “Turned Too Slow” to closing song “Atheris Hispida” the progressive shoegaze duo
MY EXISTENTIAL DOCTOR, HERB: PART 13 TURNING 40: ALL AGED UP AND NOWHERE TO GO By Brian Polk Published Issue 080, August 2020 For the first time since we began our sessions, I am meeting with my existential doctor Herb virtually. Generally, I don’t really go in for these computer-based meetings, but this is how
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