Shane Jesse Christmass on film with Rebecca Gransden
April 5, 2022
Thatโs the best thing about film, or novels, that soup of experience that swamps you, that isnโt your usual, or known experience, your lived experience.
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KEITH HARING’S GHOST PAINTS THE 21ST CENTURY SISTINE CHAPEL IN ONE OF THE TWENTY-PLUS PLACES IN QUEENS WITH THE NAME ๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐ by J.B. Stone
April 4, 2022
He wasnโt afraid to crack a grin, in the most colorful sweater, a bejeweled crown atop his head, raising a glass of his favorite cocktail to let the world know he is still kicking it, even in deathโs hallows.
OYSTERS AT THE FAMILY FARM by Jo Unruh
April 1, 2022
The old say to the young: ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ. And when the old men speak these words, they are sincere, because the world has been delivered unto them, and the world is now theirs to bestow.
MOONLIGHTERS by Charlotte Dantzer
March 30, 2022
I breathed in the piss scent of the alleyway through the black knit. Then my face emerged from beyond the shirt, and I stood facing the dead end of the alley holding my breasts with one forearm.
HAUNTED PARTIES: courtney marie in conversation with Rebecca Gransden
March 29, 2022
i thought i was prepared for friends and strangers to be able to glimpse some of my innermost thoughts, but sometimes i get a wave of anxiety: is it too much?
ROAD BLOCKADE PART ONE by Harrison Kim
March 28, 2022
She rode her pony here and he stinks like old socksโthereโs no bond better than between a woman and her pony. I note she wears striped leotards right up to her loincloth.
COBRA by Marcus Ong
March 25, 2022
At two in the afternoon, she hears a bang like a gunshot. Eugenia peeks out her bedroom window. Whatโs visible to her: the Tangsโ barbecue pit, their garden shed, their kidney-shaped pool. She counts dead oval leaves trapped on the water.ย Must be the Tang brothers lighting firecrackers behind the shed again, she thinks. Theyโre always plotting to give the birds a heart attack. Forefingers stuffed in her ears, she wonders why the brothers arenโt studying, and from where do they get their sadistic toys? But if the Gohs across the street managed to smuggle in flamingos to chain to
NOT TO BE by Mars Girolimon
March 23, 2022
Iโm in class reading Hamlet and contemplating suicide on a cliffside. Reciting poetic verses about family curses and hiding behind a curtain with a knife. My phone buzzes, and I lean forward to read something out of a Shakespearean tragedy. She killed someone. The words glow like the flame of a lit match and I spring from my desk chair, repelled by their heat. Faces swivel toward me, judgement radiating from their eyes. Iโm an injured animal at the center of a swarm about to be mauled by my own pack. My heartbeat radiates in my ears: glove to a
BRIAN ALAN ELLIS on film with Rebecca Gransden
March 22, 2022
What film, or films, made the first deep impression on you? My aunt and uncle on Long Island, for whatever reason, had a big-box VHS copy of I Spit on Your Grave in their collection, nestled somewhere between Stripes and Mr. Mom. I never asked about it, or even watched it, but it always kind of confused me. I thought it was a porno or something. I finally ended up watching I Spit on Your Grave as a teenager, which made me thankful that I didnโt watch it as a child, though I did accidentally catch A Clockwork Orange on