FOR THE LOVE OF THE MASK by Michael Zunenshine Oct 4, 2024 Fiction I was content, hibernating in my apartment after a breakup I didn’t see coming and wasn’t ready for, streaming B-horror flicks on Tubi and Two Poems by Rob Kempton Oct 3, 2024 Poetry "This Tiger I Keep Seeing Doesn't Remember Me" & "Thoughts at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday" TOUCH by Tori McCandless Oct 2, 2024 Poetry Do you want this? A voice coming toward you. Toward, you think, is a direction that implies encounter or at least energetic force. Are we always YOUR FIRST SCENE REPORT [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 1, 2024 Columns You are in a basement in Pasadena, Maryland in a house off Goose Neck Road. The basement is large but spare and well kept. It is Friday, March 19th, HALF TIME by Dan Williams Sep 26, 2024 Fiction You see it’s all about strategy, strategy! Long, short, tall, thin, wide, fat, spiked, smooth, ridged, ballooned - it’s strategy. Strategy, JAKE DEPREE AND THE CASTLE OF WORMS by Andrew Buckner Sep 25, 2024 Fiction The chateau de vers, or the Castle of Worms, sat on a mountain of bodies and bones eaten by the title invertebrates in La Mort Valley, Paris, SCENE REPORT: Twig Harper @ Current Space [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 24, 2024 Columns No matter which calendar you follow, as of this weekend, it is officially fall in Baltimore. This can only mean one thing: more events, festivals, BABY BROTHER DEAD by Nadim Silverman Sep 19, 2024 Fiction Jerry died and everyone started coming to me, asking what designs I had for revenge. Poor boy was found with his eyes taken out of his head, his HUNTING by Miller Ganovsky Sep 18, 2024 Fiction Patience had a chipped tooth from when he was a child and shot a rabbit. The recoil fattened, bloodied his lips. Belle kissed them lightly when she IN PRAISE OF BALTIMORE SHOWPLACE [Anything for a Weird Life] Sep 17, 2024 Columns On the heels of the DIY show listing's fifth anniversary, Tim sends up a vital Baltimore institution 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 BRUISER showcase at the Baltimore Book Festival - Saturday 9.28 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