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IF YOU ASK ME WE HAD IT COMING: a BRUISER reading

BRUISER Zines Series 1

Excerpts from PARANOID CITI by Shannon Hearn WALK! THEN WALK THE WAY AGAIN BACKWARDS WITH YOUR SHOES UNTIED FIND A BUSH TO HOUND YOUR NOSE SMELL THE LILACS! DON’T TAKE THEM! LET YOUR WANT BE AN Sep 11, 2024 Poetry
Excerpts from PARANOID CITI by Shannon Hearn Sep 11, 2024 Poetry WALK! THEN WALK THE WAY AGAIN BACKWARDS WITH YOUR SHOES UNTIED FIND A BUSH TO HOUND YOUR NOSE SMELL THE LILACS! DON’T TAKE THEM! LET YOUR WANT BE AN IMPRESSIONS OF SHINY FEST 3 [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 10, 2024 Columns It is the day after the third Shiny Fest, and I can’t stop thinking about balloons. Shiny Fest’s intent was not only to tout its own roster and THE DARK CASTLE by David C. Porter Sep 6, 2024 Poetry “You can go to bed — you’re as safe as we are.” Well into adulthood, he would jump when he saw his own shadow. He would see the tombstone was IF YOU ASK ME WE HAD IT COMING: a BRUISER reading Sep 5, 2024 Join a murderer's row of Baltimore bruisers on Saturday 9.28 PLOT OF A MOVIE by Mary Klein Sep 4, 2024 Poetry Shot that makes smoking look cool, maybe even healthy. Dialogue implying a more profound connection between the two. Drug montage in blue. Extremely SUMMER 2024 RECAP [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 3, 2024 Columns Tim's back from his summer sabbatical with a look back at a busy summer in Baltimore music. MY SISTER WAS TELLING ME THAT OUR FATHER HAS CANCER NOW by David Gladfelter Aug 30, 2024 Fiction My father considered himself a pagan christian. A wiccan of some kind. Adjacent to a wizard or a shaman. I was eleven and my stepmom nineteen when MOON MAGGOT by Courtenay Schembri Gray Aug 28, 2024 Fiction The wood panels flap like meat falling from the bone. Momma shivers in the corner, rocking back and forth, reciting bible verses. Sis’ and I play Three prose poems by Howie Good Aug 27, 2024 Poetry "Bobbi Says," "Just Politics" & "'If This is a Medical Emergency, Please Hang up...'" PARADE by Sydney Maguire Aug 22, 2024 Fiction The first m&m hit the back of my eye, I saw green and fructose. Everything was sweet, including the pain. My little sister grabbed them by the MANIC PIXIE DREAM HELLBENDER by Emily Baber Aug 21, 2024 Fiction “She’s hot but she’s fucking crazy,” one said to the next, a refrain so common he digested it like soup let out too far. He winced down the rest of IN by Lily Herman Aug 19, 2024 Poetry Xaghra, above a beach of imported sand, we see the visitations one island makes upon a smaller, we pay for water, we watch the pitch where one old Two poems by Annie Williams Aug 15, 2024 Poetry "Elsewhere" & "Coda" A RETURN, RETREATS by David Hay Aug 14, 2024 Poetry Words don’t just mirror, they fist a flower victorious through deep cave apertures, suddenly ripened by a lonely sin, nourished continually with a MY BACKYARD, IN THE FLESH by Alan Keith Parker Aug 13, 2024 Fiction The flesh crept in about a year before my diagnosis. At first it was just a mound of muscle tendons on the other side of a fallen silver maple that PERMISO by Carson Jordan Aug 8, 2024 Poetry In hot outbreath, I eat crow. Oh, to be the sunbeam and the air conditioning, the Heinz honey packet and the violet vinegar. I’m both, I’m sorry. I FESTIVAL by Tim Frank Aug 7, 2024 Poetry There’s a festival floating like bubble wrap on the edge of Wednesday, and it’s always Wednesday. Fill up your cup, we’re going in. Liminal clowns 2:49 THEME AND VARIATION by Audrey Coble Aug 6, 2024 Fiction In October, in the Fairbanks dark, a person can get lost. When I’m shaken awake by the racing of my own heart it’s 2:49 AM and everything is still KILLING A DOG by A.W. Donnelly Aug 5, 2024 Poetry Some kids from down my street killed a dog and left it by the drain concrete escarpment, a humble temple for those vestal gronks. Ants, in their REEK by Rayna Perry Jul 11, 2024 Fiction The man behind the convenience store counter took all of fifteen seconds to find and scan the barcode on Stevie’s bottle of Mello Yello, waving it
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