TORPID SLIVERS #42

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Blast the metal with air from a pair of bellows to keep the morning brisk...

The Antā€™s Venom

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The lone pair of berries at the end of a typical pedicel of Rondequinthine honeysuckle mimics the dark eyes and head of a Ginchbeckā€™s bounding ant...

Ubuntu

/ Khatondi Soita Wepukhulu / Misc
This is only the latest milestone for trans people in Uganda...

Film: Rose Gold

/ Sara Cwynar / Misc
There was a time when we were able to draw up an encyclopedia...

What We Do When We Talk About What To Do

/ Joe Linker / Misc
One stops the vertical fall and the horizontal push, and edges fall away. Another scrolls up and down and takes cuts...

Red Earth

/ Michael Salu / Misc
Or they could be words gathered in a long string of names as gifted to a Nigerian child on its eighth day in this world...

Film: My Feathered Friend

/ Astra Papachristodoulou / Misc
A film poem about a friendly city robin called Mr. Feathers...

Film: THE HUNGARIAN VACUUM

Toys

/ Oscar Mardell / Misc
I decided that Iā€™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...

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

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 headĀ 

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 / ā€“ being in lockdown and celibate, lockdown and lover-less ā€“ / is that thereā€™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.

Don’t Call It a Deep Dive: Brent Terry

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
A few of the definitions of ā€˜fluxā€ - 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 modernismā€™s annus mirabilis was bound to be a disappointment in the annals of literary history, for what works could surpass Ulysses?

Writers (not entirely) In Isolation

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

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. Iā€™d submitted a grant proposal, less than a week ago, for a few thousand dollars.