Torpid Slivers #39

/ Colin Raff / Misc
To remind ourselves that Abtestudonia constitutes its very own vertebrate class among tetrapods, we need only recall that no fish can live out its life wriggling on dry land.

Sixteen Again

/ Oscar Mardell / Misc
At fifteen, I listened to ‘Sixteen Again’ and wondered, yes, what it might feel like to be sixteen, to become a full-time resident in that shit place...

Sticks, Stones and Other Things

/ Ed Simon / Misc
I can’t be the only one to think that the bad faith conservative arguments about free speech have become tired

Keepin It Chad #4

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
The descent of a single Chad shall send fleeing from the land all beasts of hoof, feather and claw.

Better Read Than Dead

/ Ed Simon / Misc
As I approach the mid-point of my second decade performing an imitation of being in academe, I’ve come to one deeply held conviction

You looking at me crossways?!

Keepin It Chad #3

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
"It's just...I wanted *that* one."

FICTION: Hard Landing

/ J. Dianne Dotson / Misc
The rocks pelted down around Kace, staccato little explosions in the speakers of her helmet. […]

Keepin It Chad #2

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
dealing with a mansplainer on the prowl

Call for Submissions

Keepin It Chad #1

/ Anne Barngrover and Heather McGuire / Misc
Feminist adventures of the noblest white dude you know

Torpid Slivers #38

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The fake Spindulephopods currently flooding (or rather poisoning) the market look quite similar to the real thing...

5 for Coping

/ Amanda Earl / Misc
The makers and performers of these five albums get me. I feel like the creators of this music understand what it means to be an awkward, out-of-place, vulnerable and caring...

Torpid Slivers #37

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The following dance is for those who found the previous too difficult.

Torpid Slivers #36

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Must have tumbled out, poor chap. I’ll give him a lift back…

Vlad Interviews: C.C. Hannett

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Today, my interlocutor is C.C. Hannett. I could tell you about him, but it would be better if he told us about himself.

Eurovision Poetry Festival

Torpid Slivers #35

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Mock away, Xaphariaxa. Should any of your words sting, I need only recall that you are the mother of that brat Gangrezzelas.

Torpid Slivers #34

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The mating columnhoppers (Stictocephala capitellum) will not be happy until they can replicate in silhouette the hand of the entomologist T. Velchzinger

The Writer’s Life

/ Eli S. Evans / Misc
When I am writing poorly, nothing else in the world seems good enough, either.

Torpid Slivers #33

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Bephimogostoloma-Finnifigletch (a.k.a. Bletchmog, Botchmug, Fetchpug or Gustolomomorynomothobatollus) is a mighty baronet of Hell

The Smallest Tear: On Crying, Reading and Releasing

/ Scherezade Siobhan / Misc
The first time A speaks about her inability to cry after starting with antidepressants, the streets of Mumbai are angling for space between Atlantis and Venice.

Vlad Interviews: Adrian Manning

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
When I hear the name Adrian, I recall a Soviet cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev. Are you an astronaut too?

On Cocaine

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
There was a time when cocaine could be bought in a chemist

Torpid Slivers #32

/ Colin Raff / Misc
If you think C and D are exactly alike, accept that you will never find out where the treasure is hidden.