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
Art by Jason White Published Issue 134, January 2025 Jason White is an artist living in the suburbs of Chicago. His favorite mediums are oil on canvas and pencil & ink drawings. When he was a kid he cried on the Bozo Show. His work varies from silly to serious and sometimes both. Check out
Published Issue 132, December 2024 Part band. Part film producers. Part SNL level comedy sketch artists. Part existential therapists. Part … magicians? The impliers aren’t just a psych-dream pop-electro duo. Or even a comedy act. They’re a fully self-taught, self-produced multimedia entity and concept band who create expert level visual and sonic content and deeply
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Early in spring Yama-uba fell sick with a fever. One morning, after a terrible night in which she thought she might die, she woke to hear the crying of a child. Startled, she sat up, looking around with alarm. “Who’s there?” she called hoarsely. The only answer was more crying. “Hell and death, child,” she
Attempts To Become Whole Again Are Forthcoming, But First I Have Some Work To Do By Brian Polk Art by Eric Joyner Published Issue 132, December 2024 Do You Ever Feel Like You And Happiness Used To Be In A Relationship, But A While Back, You Agreed To Stop Seeing Each Other? Because that’s what