Issue 72: 04 October 2018

Feeding the Fire of Winter Solstice

By Cate Gable One stick one stick one match one fist of newsprint and the future is set into flames. Passion and idiocy are alight in the trees, the possums are playing dead, civil traditions melt. Our bones are reversing themselves one flake at a time, and the temple of our beloveds has long been […]

Heads on the Chopping Block

By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham and all other D.C. misogynists: Beware. You think Medusa was a monster? Politics hath no fury like a sexual assault survivor scorned mocked, belittled, lied about, ignored. Our rage is beautiful and terrifying. Our votes will turn you not to stone but […]

Breitmark News

By Mark Ozeroff   Breitmark News 1/24/17 President Trump has officially declared the day of his inauguration a national holiday, filing the paperwork on Monday. The proclamation read: “Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, president of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws […]

If I Could Write a Political Poem, It Would Say

By J. David Cummings   Are we fast becoming Nazi Germany? Tune in, not tomorrow, but later today. Let me confess to you my naïveté: I thought the good among us were many. Now I fear we stumble, prayer-like, as if to our last breath: O, Dark Angel, afflict him who is the Anti-Savior. Everyone […]