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From The Postcard Diaries By Mark Mothersbaugh Published Issue 116, August 2023 These postcards are from a collection that was published in Myopia: Mark Mothersbaugh. Mark Mothersbaugh is one of this era’s most unique and prolific composers. Deeply aware of the ability of precise, multi-faceted artistic expression to deliver vital social commentary, he has perpetually […]

Return To Mills Island By Maggie Nerz Iribarne Art by Nick Flook Published in Issue 115, July 2023 Our island, Mills Island, sits in a spot where currents collide, ships crash and sink.  We’re surrounded by old bones, death. We’re used to it. We remember our grandfather, the lighthouse keeper, telling us stories of bodies

Afterlife as an aura photo booth By Kailey Tedesco Art by Jack Estenssoro Published Issue 115, July 2023 i keep sinning  contained in stairwells. furniture,  all caned, drops to its knees,  prays. this is a confessional:  do you see the checkerboard  of a man lensed in red?  underneath his chair: bubblegum,  chewed, still wet.  deeper

Queen City Sounds By Tom Murphy Published Issue 115, July 2023 Destiny Bond – Be My Vengeance Excepting opening track “Chew” and closing number “Harmony,” all these songs are under two minutes in classic hardcore vein. And there isn’t a wasted moment in Destiny Bond’s exploration and confrontation of the constraining, orthodox, binary worldview of