When Will Grandma Die?
Old people freak me out.
I think that started back in 6th grade, when I stayed at my grandma’s place for a few weeks while recovering from...
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A Heated House (and other poems)
a heated house she walks in laughing room to room, a ghost of her own making. there are twelve empty tallboys there are twelve hollow tall men they are all existing off each other, your eyes shine at me. the sun mimics you in...
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Hobbies Include # 2
Part 2 of the exciting new series Hobbies Include from Brian Alan Ellis HOBBIES INCLUDE —fantasizing about falling down stairs while wearing a t-shirt that says “The Dream Died” or “Dream’s Dead” or “Dreams R.I.P” on it. —having the...
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Deer Meat
When I was young my grandfather took me and my cousin on a trip. My father called it a vacation even though we were going to a ranch in North Carolina. He said wasn’t I lucky. He said...
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2 Poems by Amber Moore
Plum Eyes She had purple sunglasses. She said she liked them because she couldn’t eat plums; they made her sick. The glasses let her enjoy purple without a stomachache. Burned Shades of Orange I think you burned a cucumber-scented candle earlier. It mixed with the smell of our thirsty skin, drenched in...
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Hobbies Include
Below, you'll find a list Brian Alan Ellis's Amazing Hobbies:
—realizing that having hobbies/passions has pretty much ruined my life, so…
—fantasizing about someone playing a sick guitar solo on top of my bedazzled, tricked-out coffin while...
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Appearance Sake
We got bombed out, and no one slept in New Orleans. There were options, some thirty-something couple with baking-soda aspirations and liquid expressions. They got us high, but no one wanted to stay. Joseph kept talking about seeing...
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Fight Privilege
The bouncer who stood blocking the door was a few inches taller and outweighed me by a hundred pounds. I had him sized up pretty good, gotten his superior dimensions, pushing into him as I was, but...
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Forest Primeval by Vievee Francis The Audiobook
Talking Book is excited to announce the release of FOREST PRIMEVAL by Vievee Francis, read by the author herself. 'A Song On The Ridge' read by Vievee Francis (Excerpt from the new audiobook)
Vievee...
Talking Car
Stephen Langlois reads his story Talking Car It started with a cough. I’d turn the key and the car would cough. Like a throat-clearing almost. Like raspy enough where maybe at first you could...
The Deranged Artist: Egon Schiele
Welcome to part one in Sean Kilpatrick's ongoing series where the incomparable author offers us the 'skinny' one of many bat-shit crazy (and beloved) artists. Enjoy!
Egon predicted the internet by fucking every teen in his village. He warped...
How I Got into Nude Modeling Pt. 2
The first time I allowed a stranger to photograph me naked, I was unemployed, weighed 140 pounds, and had really bad hair.
I had just graduated from college and was living with my family until...
BOOK KLUB: EP 2 ‘TALKIN SHOP’
How I Got into Nude Modeling Pt. 1
I first heard about Suicide Girls when I was in college. It was a much smaller community back then, only a few hundred ladies worldwide, but there was a goddamn fierceness about it that caught my eye. Beautiful...
“NOBODY LIKES THE WAY THEY LOOK”: THE VALUE OF BEAUTY IN THE NEON DEMON
(Spoiler warning: This article discusses The Neon Demon in its entirety.)
Late in The Neon Demon, a snooty fashion designer named Robert declares, “Beauty isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” Nicolas Winding Refn apparently agrees:...
Missed Connections #4
Below is part 4 of the original series 'Missed Connections' by Sean Kilpatrick. Check out the previous 3 here.
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You were the marginally palsied munchkin punk whose vain refusal to...
Poems by Jacklyn Janeksela
from one wolf howl to another, aka luna lobos humming, a rippled moon imitates the pupil of her eye/cocooned it shines dance the dervish, the dainty, the devil spin like spun like unravel my navel we are still as trees we embody a silence of...
pink rabbits
in an undisclosed location, ancient family secrets are locked inside a vault named cynthia
cynthia was a hospice nurse six years ago and she knew my grandfather for six weeks. i don’t know where she...
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