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THE SWAMP PALACE by Jake Lancaster

August 8, 2022

There’s a boardwalk to the water through the swamp and the swamp is full of white birds on skinny orange legs and there are plastic bags everywhere and Dew bottles and it smells like we’re in a Roman candle fizzing out—that smell, what do you call that?

THE TORTOISE AND HIS PROBLEMS by Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya and Wes Holtermann

August 5, 2022

Hours spent nude on plinths in those drafty rooms, and only one painting had ever done him justice.

THE PROMENADE EXPRESS by Lauren Baker

August 3, 2022

On bad days, I fantasized about taking a sledgehammer to the train. I knew where the security cameras were (and weren’t).

ARMS by Xavier Blackwell-Lipkind

August 1, 2022

Pink light oozes in; just like that, it’s day, and I sigh because nothing bad can happen during the day. It’s a rule, and we don’t break rules.

ENDLESS VIOLENCE AT APlusAtHomeDialysis.com by June Martin

July 29, 2022

Sunlight glimmered off the van’s undercarriage, rays of white and blue and golden light mingling in beams and flares captured by the helicopter’s dazed camera. The police took potshots at the minivan as it soared past them.

AUTOMATONS 3 by Adam Soldofsky

July 28, 2022

I want you— I want you so bad

CONFESSIONS OF A WINGMAN by Kyle Lung

July 27, 2022

Well first they sent chimps into space. Then men. And now they say humans will not walk on mars. I’ve heard they’re saving that for robots.

J DAVID OSBORNE on film with Rebecca Gransden

July 26, 2022

I’ve always been confused about books that attempt to tell a straightforward, filmic plot through the written word. Isn’t that just a less-good version of a medium that already exists? Instead, why not adopt film’s self-confidence?

STUDIO by Trevor Wing

July 25, 2022

We signed a 72 and ¾ month lease for our studio. The market is tough in San Diego.

INEVITABLE HOLMES by Oli Johns

July 22, 2022

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