"Virtuoso" by Sean Kilpatrick & Christopher Parks Dec 8, 2023 Fiction after Clifford D. Simak This obstreperous philharmonic effrontery derogating an audience, this persiflage trained between wines — each and every "Otherwise" by Robert Stone Dec 7, 2023 Fiction A bead of moisture struggles stubbornly down the pane of hot glass. Its progress, if it is correct to think of progress in this regard, is inhibited "Our Last Day With Orange" by Shauna Friesen Dec 6, 2023 Fiction Tomorrow the god is shutting off orange. We have already lost red on account of our wickedness. Our blood runs black as crude-oil when we are cut. Impressions of Acme Corporation's The Lights Went Out Because of a Problem [Anything for a Weird Life] Dec 5, 2023 Columns With the lights out, it's less dangerous "Rian Pecker has Never Made a Perfect Road" by Gram Hummell Dec 4, 2023 Poetry So much of your life seems to surround Brokering allowances Ascertaining the heights of buildings For the first time They comfortably sit in vision "Bittersweet" by Joshua Vigil Dec 1, 2023 Fiction It was that time of year when the Japanese bittersweet strangled the elms that drowned Lorraine’s yard. During the summer months, she’d dock my rent Two photos by Paige McGill Nov 30, 2023 Visual Art IG: @paigemcgilll 2023 Pushcart Nominations Nov 29, 2023 Our submissions for the Pushcart Prize Tape World: Evil Spirits S/T Cassette [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 28, 2023 Columns Tim's Proustian remembrance of Baltimore Past, spurred by a 2009 noise-sludge cassette "Warpig" by Anthony Neil Smith Nov 27, 2023 Fiction Warpig don’t care what you think of his mullet. People here in Minnesota call it “hockey hair” but Warpig never gave one shit about hockey except The Thanksgiving Truce Holds...for Now [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 21, 2023 Columns It is that time of the year again. The “last show for a while” local band shows have happened, the “in town for the holidays” one-off shows are Two girl poems by Anna K. Crooks Nov 20, 2023 Poetry These pieces come from girl poems, Anna’s debut collection and the first volume of the BRUISER Zine series. Preorders for girl poems are open NOW. BRUISER ZINE 001: girl poems by Anna K. Crooks Nov 20, 2023 Available for preorder NOW at store.bruisermag.com. Place time-sensitive holiday orders BY DECEMBER 15. BRUISER is excited to announce the release "Eve's Inner Witness is Not a Monster" by Dipti Anand Nov 17, 2023 Fiction On a winter night stitched together with dark clouds shrouding like funeral fabric, Eve shudders under a sizzling gas heater, intercepting the "The Stupid Railroad" by Addison Zeller Nov 15, 2023 Fiction I could complain, but it’s usually light work—not always, but usually: really, if we sat down, it’d be completely bearable, but we stand on this "Vicus Cracti" by Some Fool Nov 14, 2023 Fiction excerpt from The Latten Legend, Liber I When Should Your Band Break Up? [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 14, 2023 Columns Bands break up. Tim surveys the possibilities. "Tutto Passa" by Carson Jordan Nov 13, 2023 Poetry it’s a blessing and a curse to be moved by nothing haphazardly, my leasts come of it that night, I call up to the woman with the art deco "White Mercedes/Faith Healer" by Sy Holmes Nov 10, 2023 Fiction The white Mercedes was in the driveway, under the Catalpa trees. It was a muggy spring night, and the seed pods had been blown down all over "Goddess of fire" by Cait Quirk Nov 9, 2023 Poetry When Eve discovered fire, she rubbed her hands together with such force that the bark remnants of tree-climbing leisure ignited with a spark that