PEGGING by Josh Sherman
July 26, 2023
Like anything, Hot Wheels has a language. Like any language you encounter, you want to make this one your own.
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PSALM 23 by Glenn Orgias
July 24, 2023
At sixteen I went ocean swimming. I swam so deep that the land turned into a thin grey line. The ocean turned into hills like blue elephants.
AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SHITHEADS: An Interview with Kyle Seibel
July 21, 2023
Kyle experimented with ChatGPT once: “What are twenty-five short story ideas?” The answers it puked out were uniformly terrible, except for one.
GETTING QUIET by Emily Marie Seibert
July 19, 2023
The parrot needed quietude and a sense of security in order to come down. My neighbors must’ve pegged me as mad.
BEAR WITH A CHAINSAW by Joe Aguilar
July 17, 2023
Oh, the bear came with the house, I lied. The Lord hates a lying tongue, the pastor said.
X-R-A-Y SPECS: ZARDOZ (1974)
July 14, 2023
I knew I was going to love it when the head started to vomit guns. The tone felt like a Monty Python film. Is that a common comparison?
SUPER BLACK by Sasha Brown
July 12, 2023
“It’s not that it disappears,” he said. “It’s just deep. It’s like a cliff. It goes all the way down. But it’s something new, Rico.”
JUST THE EDGES by Molly Wadzeck Kraus
July 10, 2023
Rolling down the window, I decipher through the breeze, Listen, I think we need to stop this. Hours ago, you had my breasts in your hands. OK, whatever, it’s fine, I said.
UBËR by Mitch Russell
July 3, 2023
People—and I mean even absolute strangers—they’ll just talk and talk and talk and they expect you to listen to their whole life story. Have you ever experienced this? Do you know what I mean?
OUR MONSTROUSNESS AS A TEMPLATE: An Interview with B.R. Yeager
June 30, 2023
At my most pessimistic I’ve worried that this collection is akin to charging people to watch me at the gym; when I’m more optimistic, it feels like I’m just flexing in different genres.