Issue 49: 16 Nov 2017

Across the Hard-Packed Sand

By Holly Schofield   Kelly, the dispatcher, sent the call my way, but Nick caught it too, so my squad car arrived at the beach parking lot a few seconds after his. We hadn’t worked together much, but I’d sussed him out long ago. He wasn’t one of the good ones—those were rare—but at least […]

Abecedarian diatribe: abolish him!

By Gabriel Mianulli   All the problems in the picture are flooding the world Before we have a chance to construct boats for rescue Can’t we have more time to sniff out bullshit politics? Damage has been done, the hurricanes are screaming. Elsewhere, we build bombs that taste like backward progress. Forgotten events didn’t sound […]

Untitled

By Tara Williams     Artist’s note: My concept for this painting is the feeling of being disconnected from America, like a neighbor you catch glimpses of, but still don’t know. I wanted it to reflect the moment one finally realizes the appalling things that occur in this nation on a daily basis. While creating […]

Obamaclipse

By Rony Nair   1.    Overview Lopsided dreams coalesce into hazy sunsets, pretending to droll out Nintendo games played by our new trumped up incantation. The new war boy. Elected of course. by a war room of nominees with shotguns in their bed. Hawkish foreign policy bytes, words of war, beating up the beaten, hoarse […]