By Queen Mob

Torpid Slivers #28

Torpid Slivers #27

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Said to resemble the traditional clown Charmident, the Armored grass cricket’s head can grow to roughly the size of an adult

Who Cares?

/ Anahid Nersessian / Misc
The answer to “who cares?” in its usual rhetorical sense is “no one.”

Torpid Slivers #26

/ Colin Raff / Misc
It shall come pointless humanoid forming, in a hull of gold [........]...] Yes, gold. piloted by molluscs

Vlad Interviews: Jake St. John

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
A cousin that died years ago visited me in my dream once and he told me that God looked like a giant green frog.

Torpid Slivers #25

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Of the stag films unearthed at Glyndrian Ryptosch-Crelleck‘s estate, only one is confirmed to be scripted by Ryptosch-Crelleck himself

Videogames & Loneliness: Syfa’s Cloak

/ Joseph Spece / Video Games
Robin’s egg blue linen cotton dyestuff and the mordants + saltflakes from Trevor’s two fingers.

Lust Thrust Thursday: Snapchat at 54 – Postscript

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
After writing about deactivating my Snapchat account in July, I returned a week later but with a different agenda.

Stone Soup Saturday #2: Chad Parenteau

/ Queen Mob / Misc
New-old / pours into / full glass / you / marked down / spillage.

Lust Thrust Thursdays: Snapchat at 54

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
Men pay no attention to me in public. I am 54 and I am invisible.

Poem: Southgate’s Waistcoat

/ Alfred “Football’s Coming Home” Walden / Poetry
Oh! have we now a dream waistcoat

Torpid Slivers #24

/ Colin Raff / Misc
As we uncover new possibilities and glean new knowledge from our pursuits, so shall our understanding continue to grow.

The Power of Poetry

Torpid Slivers #23

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Heed the preceding, and you can take full advantage of the many wonderful experiments available to you.

Ten Things You Need to Know (Unsponsored)

/ Joe Linker / Misc
Most lists are like ads, designed to persuade. What do you think this list is trying to sell you?

Interview: Claire Tacon

/ Jeremy Luke Hill / Interviews
In writing characters that were further from my experience, I felt like I had to meet three requirements. One, I had to know what I was talking about.

Torpid Slivers #22

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Manufacturers of candy and fireworks often employ this method for the exact measurement of radial stress in hypothetical cylinders.

Happy 221st Birthday Wilhelm Küchelbecker!

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Here, between the fallen pillars, overgrown with ivy and nettles/ Here, where the wind whistles between the ruined walls

Vlad Interviews: Jennifer Compton

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Life is so tasty, if you are reckless, and well provided for...

Torpid Slivers #21

/ Colin Raff / Misc
We now approach that region of applied science where the most diverse and beautiful rewards await the diligent.

Torpid Slivers #20

/ Colin Raff / Misc
By the time this story begins, the cloth grimace had become the face of Elsionna’s dread.

Two Poems Without M. E. N.

/ Cathy Dreyer / Poetry
If forthwith you lack quiddity, / if forthwith you fail to last, / I shall last.

Queen Mob’s Wrocław Teaparty

Torpid Slivers #19

/ Colin Raff / Misc
We consider this experiment a success and subject to further refinements.

Interview: Eric Blix

/ Justin Eells / Interviews
I have a very torn sentiment toward the particular political moment, and I guess I’ll just go out and say it: I’m very ambivalent about Trump when I’m writing.

Torpid Slivers #18

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The page that follows is the most obscure of the manuscript, presenting a group of ciphers that, in their impenetrability, remind us how the entire opus must remain an enigma.