TORPID SLIVERS #42

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

The Ant’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 Ginchbeck’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 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...

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 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.

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?

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.

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.