Cutting Promos, a collection of erasure poems constructed from iconic wrestling promos by the Oklahoma City poet Josh Shepard. Read two of them here.
Founders Day, a short story by the Philadelphia writer Arzhang Zafar. Longtime BRUISER readers may remember his excellent story “Academic,” which we nominated for the 2023 Pushcart Prize.
Foul Black Rookeries, a collection of short stories by Baltimore horror/crime writer David Simmons, whose 2023 novel Ghosts of West Baltimore Brian Evenson described as “visceral and grounded, but with a kind of ineffable strangeness wound into it.”