‘If we go far enough back, any two people on Earth have a common ancestor’ Carl Sagan I sit with a postcard that a friend has sent me from Izmir …
Disturbing Things (Kuzhali Manickavel)
K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …
DISTURBING THINGS: an interview with Kuzhali Manickavel
K- I can’t even talk right now. It was So. Disturbing. I can’t even tell you how disturbing it was. I am so disturbed by how disturbing it was. S- …
WHISKEY POETRY: an interview with Tara Mokhtari
ALEC PATRIC When we write a poem we often feel elated. There’s a sense of accomplishment and validation but there’s also the corrosive; the acid in poetry, and when we …
Darkest Blue (Tara Mokhtari)
I wish I were at some bar in hell where the whiskey burns but I’m drunk and I’m dead and the heat is a charring change from this place in …
Someone Else (Tara Mokhtari)
So Mister long dark long hair Mister heroin cheeks you’re back in my town tonight curing me from everyman with that sweet charm injection calm and loving embracive rejection …
The Interminable Suffering Of Mysterious Mr Wu (Rjurik Davidson)
Mr Wu is crying upstairs again. I can hear him as I lie on my bed, the broken sobs clear, distinct. It is as if he were here in the …
BREAKING: an interview with Rjurik Davidson
Rjurik Davidson is set to release his first collection of stories, The Library of Forgotten Books. It’s been two years waiting on a publisher to release it, but then there’s …
Transition (Sonja Meyer)
____A swing ___________set ____________________in a playground __________________________________in a park ________________________________________under a full moon and the empty swing …