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
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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;
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Published in Issue 133, January 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 099, March 2022 “Get back here, El!” Her father’s words are distant, subdued by the ringing in her ears, by the patter of her sneakers pounding into the pavement. Ringo senses her approach by her keys, pushes its door open for Ellie.
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Framing The Mind: Notes From An Exhausted Existentialist By Brian Polk Art by Morgan Heslin Published Issue 133, January 2025 I have no idea who I really am. My mind offers me visions of myself in the past, present, future. Some of these visions happened. Some of them are happening. Some will happen or not
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Never Trust A Puddle By Zac Dunn Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko Published Issue 133, January 2025 Upon any block or curb, a tiny bit of liquid or condensation may gather prior to vanishing into the ether … a puddle may catch one’s eye and cast a gaze back inversely … TO smile back
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Night Racer By Eric Joyner Published Issue 133, January 2025 About Eric Joyner: I was born in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco. My childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school, as well as
Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 133, January 2025 Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (2024) On July 3 1988, Iran Air Flight 655, a plane filled with 290 occupants heading from Tehran to Dubai, was shot down by the USS Vincennes, a United States Naval ship. All occupants on board were immediately killed. Poet Kaveh