Camper Cat By Ray Young Chu Published Issue 101, May 2022 Best of Birdy, Originally Published Issue 040 Ray Young Chu’s background starts with his grandfather being taken away by North Korean soldiers for being a preacher when his dad was six. They never saw him since. This back history has contributed to Ray’s continuous […]
Omniscient Mind By Dave Danzara Published Issue 101, May 2022 Dave Danzara has spent most of his life creating art. Born and raised in California, Dave won a scholarship to Laguna Art Institute of Southern California in 1994. His influences can be found in pop culture, sci-fi, fantasy, film and music. Graphic design and digital
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 101, May 2022 ADULT. – Becoming Undone On the surface, this most recent ADULT. album seems the most eclectic and stylistically untogether. But it is unified as a reflection of human civilization fragmenting under pressures born of embracing political and economic systems and habits that are inadequate
Held At Bay By Graham Franciose Back Cover of Issue 101, May 2022 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
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 101, May 2022 No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (2021) In a follow-up to 2017’s memoir, Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood’s first novel is a poetic journey into the absurdity of social media as it clashes against reality. Lockwood’s unnamed narrator is thrust into social media stardom
Travelogues: Wherever you go, there you are! By Carol Thacker Art by Tyler Gross Published Issue 101, May 2022 “Take half the amount of clothes and twice as much money!” my avid traveling father blurted out from the living room as I threw my stuff into my suitcase before embarking on yet another adventure in
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Psychedelic Excursions: A Q & A with Burt Vera Cruz By Quinn Fati Art by Burt Vera Cruz Published Issue 101, May 2022 Meditation, cymatics, pondering the fabric of reality, and straight up escaping the matrix with Burt Vera Cruz. Burt Vera Cruz is one of the most prolific, psychedelic video artists in the multiverse.
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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
Log 164 By Godric By Tommy Coyote Published Issue 101, May 2022 Firmly I feel away from you. U who speak death and knead it. Elders-of-Pain sniffling & shipwrecked Toters of shame, Boasting wildly from that nothing within Wettin’ themselves wearing its skin We, chicken-wired fire Gold-booted and arranged Melting in the belly of our
Vocal Manipulations By Maggie D. Fedorov Art by S. Putnik Published Issue 101, May 2022 I hear voices but it’s not the paranoia Talking; Different mouths speak, but the voice is not their own. I recognize this voice, Know it by heart. I know from Whence the whispers crept; from lecherous pit to unsuspecting minds
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