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BRUISER ZINE 001: girl poems by Anna K. Crooks
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"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
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Nov 29, 2023
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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
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BRUISER ZINE 001: girl poems by Anna K. Crooks
Nov 20, 2023
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"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
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