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05.25.25: BRUISER PRESENTS A READING AT NORMALS

観光客: TOURIST by Mark Wadley [BRUISER Zine 007]

BRUISER Zines Series 1

GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by Alina Stefanescu Evidently, this is the ideal hue in which to dissipate on the first day of spring, when layers of hot yellow pollen cover the porch swing. May 22, 2025 Poetry
GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by Alina Stefanescu May 22, 2025 Poetry Evidently, this is the ideal hue in which to dissipate on the first day of spring, when layers of hot yellow pollen cover the porch swing. THE BLACK HOLE by Steve Gergley May 21, 2025 Fiction There is a coffee shop in town where everything is coated in black paint. The walls, the floor, the chairs, the mugs. The only thing that stands out APOCALYPSE? NAH. [Anything for a Weird Life] May 20, 2025 Columns Seeking solace in a time of uncertainty, Tim traces the Weird Life back to its source. 3½ MEMORIES by David Hay May 19, 2025 Poetry Teeth that chatter around the edge of toes, fall, forming potatoes not blessed with dirt, sprouting human eyes whose pupils form mouths that screech Two Stories by Dizzy Turek May 16, 2025 Fiction I MADE THE POSTER FOR MY PLAY WHICH I WROTE, DIRECTED, AND ACTED IN + YOU SHOULD COME SEE MY PLAY WHICH IS RUNNING THE NEXT THREE WEEKENDS IN MAY Three Prose Poems by S. Cristine May 15, 2025 Poetry AND HOPE TO DIE, 11TH COMMANDMENT & THE RUSSIAN RIVER IS ON FIRE JANUARY 9TH, CONNECTICUT by Jono Crefeld May 14, 2025 Poetry We think the lag in the zoom calls we play on from our three strangely lit separate rooms makes our music sound scarier. Better. It makes us feel TURNSTILE, WYMAN PARK DELL, 05.10.2025 [Anything for a Weird Life] May 13, 2025 Columns Tim wades into the completely packed Wyman Park Dell for Baltimore standard bearers Turnstile's surprise concert benefiting Healthcare for the Homeless. WHEN HE CROAKS by Z.H. Gill May 12, 2025 Fiction When he passes (croaks, expires, kicks bucket), Papa is to leave me a substantial sum of money (the amount, I know not); only then shall I become an OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES [THEATRE DISPATCH] May 9, 2025 Theatre Lukas Armstrong-Laird reports from Adult Film's night of one-acts in Brooklyn's unexpected underground space Unit J ON THE NATURE OF VISION by David Luntz May 9, 2025 Fiction Before I lost my right eye in a ditch by the rail tracks, I heard some pigs lament their squandered destiny. I laughed. “How the fuck do you OUR SOLEMNITY OVER EVERYTHING: UFOs #11-19 by Kyle Kouri May 8, 2025 Poetry The body lacks essential nutrients and thus must find other sustenance. The result is the street opens up as a stunning vista of duplicity. There THE OTHER CHILDREN'S TOYS by Andrew Boylan May 7, 2025 Fiction A strange, smiling kid on the floor with a mouth full of crooked teeth doesn’t say anything. By the look on his face, he definitely wanted you to DAVID THOMAS (1953-2025) [Anything for a Weird Life] May 6, 2025 Columns In the middle 1990s, when I found out that Pere Ubu named their 1978 album Dub Housing after architecture in Baltimore, I was inspired to name my YOU CAN UNDERSTAND YOUR STRINGS BUT NEVER SEVER THEM by Alex Rost May 5, 2025 Fiction They called his death a passive suicide, which I guess just meant he regularly shot enough heroin to kill him or whatever. “There are rumors that I 05.25.25: BRUISER PRESENTS A READING AT NORMALS May 4, 2025 On Sunday, May 25th, join us for a FREE reading at Normals Books & Records featuring Lily Herman, Lish Ciambrone & Rhea Ramakrishnan. Doors open at REVIEW: MY HERESIES by Alina Stefanescu May 2, 2025 Poetry & Criticism Alina Stefanescu is a genre-blind writer who it only makes sense to call prolific. I’ll spare you the bibliography but it’s available on her STARVE by Kevin Richard White May 2, 2025 Fiction I’ve taken my teeth — these fully yellowed cavitied teeth — clean through this meat while you complain about your responsibilities. I’m listening to HEADBANGER'S BALL by Damon Hubbs May 1, 2025 Poetry Back when Lotus played lead guitar in Vicious Angel and Shane sang about surfing on heroin to a packed house of High School kids at the Copper Fox, GHOSTS OVER OPEN WATER by Eric Subpar Apr 30, 2025 Fiction ​Maricopa City Deputy James Archuleta desirous of experience and a scientist of the human soul stood at a payphone on the corner of Philomena and
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