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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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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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.
They love me … They love me not … They love me … They’re … wearing a recently flayed goat and chasing me down the street. Must be Lupercalia day. Oft misattributed as the Roman precursor to Valentine’s Day, the festival of Lupercalia rides the midriff of February with all the main features of the
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Fiction, Tidbits and What-Have-Yous By Brian Polk Art By Jason White & Tyler Gross Published Issue 098, February 2022 ALL MY FRIENDS WHO ARE NEW PARENTS NEED THREE MONTHS’ NOTICE BEFORE MAKING ANY PLANS And even then, it’s super touch and go. For example, if I wanted to make plans for them to attend my birthday in
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New Year? New you! That’s the plan, anyway. Though for even the most resolute these wishes tend to taper off as the year proceeds, carrying with it the endless baggage of daily suffering that Buddhists call “living.” And yet our collective whimsy lies with continuing human sentimentality; that the beginning of any new project
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Are You Dead To The World Or Just Plain Dead? By Brian Polk Art By Jason White Published Issue 097, January 2022 Do you feel like there are times in your life when no one notices your existence? You say words, have feelings, complete projects on time and under budget at work, and no one
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She’s All Right By Joel Tagert Art by Jason White Published Issue 096, December 2021 “Brain worms,” Satan told her, baring his canines. “Can’t you smell it on ’em?” Talea sniffed the air as they passed an older couple walking arm in arm. “I don’t smell anything.” “Bah, you humans never do. Noses like old
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Untitled A & B By Jason White Published Issue 095, November 2021 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 sometimes