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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.

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

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

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;

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

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