Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 092, August 2021 DOZE DOSING | shared_DOCS_w/_u As an educator Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens spent much of the pandemic interacting with students online and using digital cloud resources and tools to receive work and transmit various forms of feedback and analyze data. As a way to cope Stevens […]
Book Club Hana Zittel Published Issue 092, August 2021 Maxwell’s Demon by Steven Hall (2021) “…Why knocks an angel in Bethlehem?” Thomas Quinn receives this cryptic message on his landline’s answering machine, unable to reach the call in time. The voice coming from the machine sounds very much like the voice of his late father,
BEX By Gray Winsler Art by Nick Flook Published Issue 092, August 2021 Bex’s hands were sweating. She blamed it on the skintight gloves of her suit, but she knew she was nervous. “Comms are going dark in five, Bex. How are you feeling?” “Never better,” she shouted over the rattling of the ship. Bex
Werewolf Radar: Aliendless Love By Nate Balding Art by Caitlyn Grabenstein Published Issue 092, August 2021 By the time you read this you’ll be dead. Or something will have happened. Or nothing. Which on a philosophical level might imply that you are, for all intents and purposes, dead. That’s not what this is about. On
The Purp By Joel Tagert Art by Dave Danzara Published Issue 092, August 2021 The doomsayers crowded the corners but between them there was no agreement. NEW YORK WILL DROWN, read one sign. NUCLEAR WAR 10/21/35, said another. Still others mentioned plagues, droughts, assassinations, but no one took them seriously. Everyone knew the really
Sa Lawn Dreams By Dave Jasmon Published Issue 092, August 2021 Meet Kyle Singer, the artist behind Meow Wolf Denver’s multidimensional “Sa -Lawn” that features an alien fashion show. “You walk in and it’s just, hopefully, an overstimulation of all the color … But quantum leap back into the conversation, something else just popped into
Single Sentence Fiction For People Who Really Don’t Enjoy Reading By Brian Polk Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 092, August 2021 My Attempt To Become More Cultured By Listening To Opera Lasted Two Minutes Turns out, I really don’t like opera, and there’s simply nothing I can do about that. I’m Doing A Crossword
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Aloner By Graham Franciose Published Issue 092, August 2021 Graham Franciose grew up in the forests of Massachusetts. His work reaches back to those times of exploration and imagination, where anything was possible. His whimsical, sometimes emotional, illustrations show a sliver of a story, a moment between the action, leaving the exact circumstances and narrative
The Forest Lurker III By Peter Kornowski Published Issue 092, August 2021 I remember always having a passion for creating … drawing, painting, design, carpentry, music; they’re all outlets for my creativity. I love bringing the imagination to life and sharing with others. Making things, and knowing how things are made, has always felt good
Astronaut By Risa F Scott Art by Ali Hoff Published Issue 092, August 2021 My Aunt Carol lives on a little farm in Oregon. The forest there is so green, like it crept over every other color for being still. It’s a long trip, makes you feel like you’re moving away from Earth itself.