By Queen Mob

Toys

/ Oscar Mardell / Misc
I decided that I’d dress up as a Furby. I bought about four metres of pink felt, folded it in half, stitched up the sides, cut out arm holes, affixed a belly and ears, then hot-glued on some hair, a beak...

Blockheads Forever

/ Emmy Favilla / Music
It was June 1990 when the inevitable happened. I realized, two days before the end of first grade, that I liked the New Kids on the Block.

This joyless division will tear us apart

/ Peter Wyn Mosey / Music
Poor Bernard Sumner can't get to his new boat in North Wales

AD 33 Was Lit: Simon Calder on Mary and Peter

/ Simon Calder / Misc
The year is AD 33. So much that shall seem so misshapen has yet to take any shape at all. In a modest chamber...

In Bed With Scott Manley Hadley

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
I used to sweat a lot / In my sleep / But then I started exercising / And not taking drugs

Vlad Interviews: Konstantinos Papacharalampos

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
I believe progress is, unfortunately, not linear. There are many ups and downs in the way.

Let Me Clarify #14: Unsolicited Advice by Genia Blum

/ Genia Blum / Misc
Years ago, I survived a massive overdose. My near-death experience left me grateful for the second chance at life, and removed all anxiety about a future demise.

Scott Manley Hadley’s Lockdown Life

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
It is hard to run away / In lockdown / When everything you're running from / Is inside your head 

Queen Mob’s Presents: Alina Stefanescu

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Today I watched / a wasp build a nest / inside a Little Free Library...

Anthony Strain’s Lockdown Life

/ Anthony Strain / Misc
Getting thru this in an advanced state of alone is the truth we have to unbox, the truth a million zooms can only tweak.

Paula Harris’s Lockdown Life

/ Paula Harris / Misc
the problem with sharing a house and being in lockdown / – being in lockdown and celibate, lockdown and lover-less – / is that there’s no alone time...

Don’t Call it a Deep Dive: Joseph Spece

/ Joseph Spece / Misc
I like that word, RB: lake. A punchy monosyllable, long vowel & velar consonant.

C. C. Hannett / kmwgh’s Lockdown Life

/ C. C. Hannett / kmwgh / Poetry
silver rock / & mercury water / everything else is cardboard

Cathy Dreyer’s Lockdown Life

/ Cathy Dreyer / Poetry
The glove protects you she says / (Showing we) / It’s a short trip he says / (What we) / She can’t explain...

Interview: Laurie Stone

Far Out Man Comics: #5

/ The Whiskey X Bird Brewing Co. / Comics
A comic series by Whiskey Radish, Kurtbird and Xindi

Don’t Call It a Deep Dive: Brent Terry

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
A few of the definitions of ‘flux” - the action or process of flowing or flowing in / the rate of flow of a fluid

1923 Was Lit: Marius Hentea on Tristan Tzara

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
The year following modernism’s annus mirabilis was bound to be a disappointment in the annals of literary history, for what works could surpass Ulysses?

‘White is the Color of Death’ by Tina Panic Noise

/ J.B. Stone / Music
This unbridled rage carries its weight throughout the album as a soundtrack for every broken home, every maimed childhood.

Interview: Christine Larusso

/ Sara Youngblood Gregory / Interviews
I think another way one might describe some of my work is controlled mess, and I wouldn’t be mad about that.

Writers (not entirely) In Isolation

/ Marti Leimbach / Misc
Welcome to the new order. It’s not going to be fun or easy. But maybe you finally can carve out time to finish (or begin) that novel.

Far Out Man Comics: #4

/ The Whiskey X Bird Brewing Co. / Comics
A comic series by Whiskey Radish, Kurtburd and Xindi

Thoughts on LA Traffic

Don’t Call It A Deep Dive: Yahia Lababidi

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
I saw that I heard back from The Epitome Writing Foundation. I’d submitted a grant proposal, less than a week ago, for a few thousand dollars.