Samsara By Gray Winsler Art by Jamie Chihuan Published in Issue 134, February 2025 To wake up and find oneself covered in feathers is a rather unsettling experience. To then find that these feathers were not scattered about as the result of some debaucherous pillow fight, but actually attached to one’s body like some bizarre […]
That’s Not Helpful and Other Words Of Advice By Brian Polk Art by Creatickle Published Issue 1334, February 2025 I Bet Recently Fired Managers Everywhere Hate Those “Under New Management” Signs I mean, shit, not only did they just lose their job, but now they have to see a sign that adds insult to injury.
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The Walls We Fix By Zac Dunn Art by Joe Vaux Published Issue 134, February 2025 AS children we are told to YES and NO AS we are given play pens and aprons to keep the mess from us AS walls are given to us to keep the world and chaos of nature from leading
The Climbers By Jason Heller Art by Jaime Valderrama Published Issue 134, February 2025 Best of Birdy, Originally Published in Issue 070, October 2019 The song at the heart of the starship Escalante sang. It sang itself, as all songs must. As such, it was no different than the six solipsistic humans who populated the
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Army Surplus By Skot Olsen Published as the Centerfold for Issue 134, February 2025 Skot Olsen spent most of his formative years enjoying the extreme seasonal weather of New England. It was his childhood explorations of cemeteries, colonial homes and the islands surrounding the coast. This led to a lifelong interest in folklore, dark histories,
Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 134, February 2025 ABANDONS – Liminal Heart The ghosts of American paranoia and anxiety haunt the melancholic strains and rumblings of opening track, “Habitats,” like future archaeologists sampling those concerns from abandoned structures in the former hinterlands of civilization. ABANDONS thus explores, in composition and sonic emotional
Art City By Daniel ‘DL’ Landes Art by John Casey Published Issue 134, February 2025 On the outskirts of Tucumcari, a town slowly leaking vitality like neon escaping the glass tubes which bathe the settlement in a warm glow, a man walks slowly towards the setting sun. The ancestral realm. He casts a long shadow.
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Book Club By Hana Zittel Published Issue 134, February 2025 Stone Fruit by Lee Lai (2021) Celebrated as the 2022 American Library Association Stonewall Award Honor Book and a 2022 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lee Lai’s graphic novel, Stone Fruit, explores the deep emotional bonds of chosen family and the complex pull of blood relatives.
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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