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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
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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