Featured Poem: Caroline Kessler’s “A Bicycle Without Brakes”
These really exist! I built one from a forgotten frame, a pillow cushion for a seat, wooden blocks for pedals. Why would you ever want to stop? If I could, I would cycle all the way from Pittsburgh to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where no one else is trying to go so the roads will be… [Continue Reading]
Featured Nonfiction: Dave Baker’s “Happy Bar Crawl”
You drive across town and pull up to your best friend’s parent’s house; the house you spent high school at, sneaking beers in the basement and blunts in the backyard. It’s been months since you’ve seen these guys, but Thanksgiving brings everyone back to 10 Fox Run and their former selves. Here, Dan isn’t… [Continue Reading]
Featured Fiction: Gabrielle Loisel’s “The Mermaid”
My wife was a mermaid first, before she was a woman. We met at a friend’s concert in a dingy bar with a sticky floor. She was in a wheelchair, a blanket over her legs despite the weather. “I’ve been saving up for the operation,” she announced over the clanging music, flinging black… [Continue Reading]
Featured Visual Art: Alexandra Williams’ “Dharma Punk”
Alexandra Williams is an LA native who recently graduated from Pepperdine University with her bachelors in Fine Arts. Alexandra focuses on working with and emphasizing elements of chaos and finding the beauty in the harsher elements of life and nature. She works mainly on large-scale abstract panel paintings and smaller-scale figurative work but also expands… [Continue Reading]
Editor’s Blog
A Lesson In Bantam (2)
Sometimes a popular artist comes along with a rash of synthesized, trumped up dance hits that stick in the public’s consciousness. These artists not only sound the same and will be forgotten in a year, but they often represent all things wrong with popular music. And then sometimes that artist shows off the talent behind the autotune, […]
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