September 24, 2015 |
Tomorrowland
Sean Kilpatrick
If someone insists you smile, it might as well be rape. This movie found a way to nitpick itself the way these types nitpick everyone around them about presenting the right attitude. Someone in this land will always be subjecting you to the editorial fructose of their imperial fertility. If Bird’s intent was to satirize our fretful American condition, I didn’t understand, because I left the fucking theater right when the film began – about an hour in.
September 24, 2015 | Poetry
Four Poems
Kelly Clare
When we found the dead whale, we couldn’t recover the eye of it, and because I hadn’t lost my mother, I managed to survive.
September 23, 2015 |
I Dropped Acid and Went to a Vice News “The Business of Life” Taping
Sean Kilpatrick
There’s so much freakshow in you, Charlie, I thought: I love you, but, look, you’ve been treated like a citizen enough to have cop friends. Sometimes I think you think all creative expression falls under Reganomics. Then he’s in my face with six reasons why I’m hardly pubic or adjusted. Yes, I’m a pussy. I get it.
September 23, 2015 | Fiction
Notes on Tomorrow's Issue
Cady Vishniac
QUERY 5: About half the time, your APOSTROPHES and your QUOTATION MARKS don’t curl around the way they should— “ or ” , not " , and ‘ or ’ , not ' —which is how I know you are writing half of all your articles on your cellphone.
I Can Self Destruct
Shawn Binder
If you’ve ever been asked to place your anxiety on a litmus test of 1-10 and have no idea what a 10 would constitute, then you know how jarring and disconnected this question could be. I thought about running away from the office, I thought about knocking over one of her plants
A Man Got Shot in Ohio
Saugat Bhattarai
Later at night she looked by the fires of Ohio at the burn on her palm
Three Poems
Sarah Ann Winn
She says the moon is just an overflowing ashtray with butts buried in the dark side.
Staff Meeting
Ginny MacDonald
In the staff meeting she thought about enemas.
Irrational Man
Sean Kilpatrick
Only someone whose amazing art can no longer hide them from the petty philanthropy hopefully juxtaposing the asinine incest of their crimes would issue such a dollar bill of a sentence.
Six Days in Glorious Vienna
Yoko Ogawa
Fourteen tourists had signed up for “Six Days in Glorious Vienna: Open Plan,” and since Kotoko and I were the only singles in the group, it was inevitable that we ended up rooming together at the hotel.
Annotations
Nari Kirk
In nearly every used book—bought, borrowed, or salvaged—I’ve found them.
Some Horns (Pt. 8)
Nick Francis Potter
You all don't seem too keen on fiddling here with bloody Henry.
Some Life, Hunh?
Steve Anwyll
I look down Rue Acorn. Along the red brick factory I live in. And at first all I see are parked cars. Shadows. And the slow moving Sunday traffic farther up the block. Along Rue Saint-Rémi.
You were right, I tell myself with confidence, there are no fucking fallen dogs out here. Just a sack of rice or side of beef. Plain and simple.
An Encounter
Greg Mulcahy
I’ve been told, he said, you can make a house out of magazines. Roll them up and seal them in something and stack them up in a grid formation. There are supports, of course. Has to be a framework.
Grimestore Cowboy
Brian Alan Ellis
I was drunk and coked up and thought it’d be a good idea to cut through some strange wooded area. Then I was completely underwater.
Daddy Issues
Tyler Gillespie
I tell you I wish my dad would come out as trans like Caitlyn Jenner &/or late-in-life gay like my ex-boyfriend’s father.
The Most Romantic Eighth Grade Boy
Cara Dempsey
Every night since she stays in, thumbing the wheel. She burns napkins and cotton swabs. She burns whatever she can find.
SKATOPIA (POST) LIVEBLOG
Juliet Escoria
Our friend Stacy Kranitz, who is a (super talented) photographer, invited Scott and me to go to Skatopia’s 20th Anniversary Bowl Bash in June. Of course, we said yes. Here is
The Outsiders
Shane Jones
Sometimes my brother would randomly run through the house saying the outsiders sat perched in the trees, they had guns aimed at every window in the house, and we’d run to the basement and whisper our last words to each other in the hiding cabinets
Faults / Cheap Thrills / The Shield / The Corndog Man
Sean Kilpatrick
Being human is about: what’s unobtainable today?
Street Names
Irene McGarrity
When I met Magic on 188th and Valentine, he pulled a quarter from behind my ear. Most guys didn’t try that hard.