Torpid Slivers #21

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

Two Poems: The Faith & Across the River

/ John Pluecker / Misc, Poetry
The Faith Vexed by the machine                    the same faggot who lost                               […]

rose, the wily thistle

Special Issue: Where Are the Children?

/ Jasminne Mendez / Misc
Call for Submissions: “Where Are the Children?” Deadline: August 1, 2018 (11:59pm PST) This special […]

Torpid Slivers #20

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

Torpid Slivers #19

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

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.

Videogames & Loneliness: Teh Socials

/ Joe Linker / Misc
Hamlet, at his computer. Enter Polonius: / Polonius: What friends thou hast, add them fast, Lord Hamlet.

Torpid Slivers #17

/ Colin Raff / Misc
He unkeenly prescribed / “2 spleāndules of urbulquelpthttttt nightly.”

Vlad Interviews: Dostoyevsky Wannabe

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Doesn't everyone kind of already believe that the 21st Century is a half-utopian, half-dystopian Philip K Dick dream/nightmare anyway?

Queen Mob’s London Teaparty

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Pictures from last month's reading at Kirkdale Books, London.

Torpid Slivers #16

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Sculpted from prizewinning anise pastillage, Buphelleruck’s Lethal Busts come in numerous shapes and sizes.

Torpid Slivers #15

Vlad Interviews: Jessica Sequeira

/ Vlad Savich / Misc
Hamlet is a snippet of computer code that wants to escape from its programmed functions

Torpid Slivers #14

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Upon reaching the foot of a rocky cliff, a travelling hare saw that a goat was readying to climb up its face

Videogames & Loneliness: Mass Effect (and more)

/ Cassandra Jones / Misc
I have many fond memories of playing video games, but the ones that nestle up against the forefront of my mind always involve other people.

Torpid Slivers #13

/ Colin Raff / Misc
The broad concrete balconies are connected externally by a lattice of steel ramps and occasional ladders. Cracks remain minimal.

Torpid Slivers #12

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Of the hoofed filter feeders that roam the shores of the Black Sea, none has greater majesty than the Baleen Gazelle (G. gazella edentulata).

Torpid Slivers #11

Fecal Fridays: Robert the Dog

/ Scott Manley Hadley / Misc
I’m dressed in a ridiculous, quasi-hip-hop style and I’m lost somewhere between the Euston Road and (probably) Camden.

Videogames & Loneliness: Little Big Planet

/ Laura Eppinger / Misc
After I survived a disastrous year abroad, dropped out of grad school and left a dysfunctional relationship, I was lucky to be able to move home to my parents’ basement.

In Bed With Teresa K. Miller

/ Russell Bennetts / Misc
Nearing the equator, the sun rose at 5 and set at 5 and we ate dinner before the largest of the insects came out, put ourselves to bed under our nets by 7.

Torpid Slivers #10

/ Colin Raff / Misc
Pinneleck‘s delayed self-replicator lost any chance to live up to its name with the demise of Dauvergno Pinneleck and the negligence that followed.