Cambodia Bladed (4)

David Shields

/ Pedro Ponce / Fiction
My wife holds open the refrigerator. We’re out of David Shields, she says. I look […]

Cake for a Queen

Trump Haiku: 4

/ Lance Newman / Poetry
'They want to cut you apart. These are tough people. I've dealt with them all my life.'

Disgusting Yuppie City

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
god forbid there be any open space anywhere in New York

Broiler – Crematorium: Cicadas

Figure Writing, 101

/ Lania Knight / Letters & Essays
Figure writing is a variation of the observations all writers must make. It comes, though, laden with tension. Staring at a model while sitting in a room full of other writers doing exactly the same thing is an invitation to intimacy

#DownWithCentennialism

/ Harris Feinsod / Misc
There are plenty of reasons one might dread the coming of the year 2022.

Poem: Mark Fiddes

/ Mark Fiddes / Poetry
The galactic ashtray intercepts a last fag as the philosopher quips . . .

Not Knowing the Reason

/ Masha Tupitsyn / Misc
On Monday, a new friend from Rome writes me a letter upon her return. In it she says: “Destiny is a thing.”

Burst O’Teh Web