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By Jordan Doll Published in Issue 133, January 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 067, June 2019 The ocean. For centuries it has served as a delicate, inexhaustible source of nightmares. Why, it seems like every other day some asshole scientist is like, “Okay. I’m going back down there to rustle up some […]

Why We Are Whispering By Jason Heller Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 133, January 2025 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 garden

Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 133, January 2025 In the annals of Denver underground music history, one of the names that garners the most respect of local punk and alternative rock are post-punk/garage rock legends The Fluid. Since splitting in 1993, the band’s records have become something of collectors items for the

King Sargasso By Joel Tagert Art by Moon Patrol Published Issue 133, January 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 100, 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;

Published Issue 132, December 2024 Part band. Part film producers. Part SNL level comedy sketch artists. Part existential therapists. Part … magicians? The impliers aren’t just a psych-dream pop-electro duo. Or even a comedy act. They’re a fully self-taught, self-produced multimedia entity and concept band who create expert level visual and sonic content and deeply

Early in spring Yama-uba fell sick with a fever. One morning, after a terrible night in which she thought she might die, she woke to hear the crying of a child. Startled, she sat up, looking around with alarm. “Who’s there?” she called hoarsely. The only answer was more crying. “Hell and death, child,” she

Attempts To Become Whole Again Are Forthcoming, But First I Have Some Work To Do By Brian Polk Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 132, December 2024 Do You Ever Feel Like You And Happiness Used To Be In A Relationship, But A While Back, You Agreed To Stop Seeing Each Other? Because that’s what

By Jeff LaGreca Published Issue 132, December 2024 I finally get to be a Santa Elf. After a week of assignments ranging from Welcome Elf to Train Elf to Crossroads Elf, I get to be in the actual house with the big, red-suited man himself! The house itself is a small wood-paneled room about 10

POSTCARDS FOR DEMOCRACY 2024: A Collective Post Art Demonstration By Mark Mothersbaugh & Beatie Wolfe Published Issue 131, November 2024 Legendary musician and composer Mark Mothersbaugh and acclaimed conceptual artist and musician Beatie Wolfe once again joined forces to reactivate Postcards For Democracy — their non-partisan, collective post art campaign in anticipation of the 2024 Presidential Election.

CUJO AND THE DARTS By Zac Dunn Art by Selin Serhii Published Issue 131, November 2024   He stepped out of the van looking smug.  She was not impressed. It had been a very dry spring and the boxes that were filled with DART-driven dreams were hungry to house the DENDROBATIDAE. LICK THE TOAD. The