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Kissing Men
words by Jared Ward

Kissing Men

The idea hadn’t been to get beaten up. He wasn’t sure what it had been, but it sure wasn’t this. He felt the queer’s hand [...]

The Dry Patch
words by Robert Swartwood | artwork by Skinny Gaviar

The Dry Patch

It was on his knee, just above his tibia, not there one day but there the next. A patch no bigger than a quarter, maybe [...]

No Bolos, Por Favor
words by Anna Reed | artwork by Nate Pollard

No Bolos, Por Favor

She had curled up and slept — a cat nap to let her energy settle into the bowl of her belly. What had splashed up [...]

The Opportunity of a Lifetime
words by Larry Gaffney | artwork by Mike Twohig

The Opportunity of a Lifetime

The job was killing me. When I told this to friends they would scoff. What did they know about the misery of grading student compositions? [...]

Queer Zombie Disco
words by Kirsty Logan | image by Jakes

Queer Zombie Disco

1: I love you more than I love to eat brains After the show, Mara coils her intestines up carefully and threads them back through [...]

Skull Grinders
words by Agent Automatic | artwork by Nate Pollard

Skull Grinders

I’ll punch holes in the eyes of god. I was feeling mellow a while ago, but that’s changed. I’m gnawing on the jaw of a [...]

A Western Proposal
words by Tom Sheehan | photo by Benjamin Earwicker

A Western Proposal

A fanatic reader of western stories, a dreamer of the wide and far land and what it had to offer, Fenwick Mercer had come all [...]

Donald Sutherland, Pointing
words by Jarrid Deaton

Donald Sutherland, Pointing

It’s the final frame, the one that freezes before the credits roll. Finger pointed at Veronica Cartwright, at the camera, at us, at the entire [...]

A SIMPLE DISTANCE by K.E. Silva
reviewed by Erin Gambrill

A SIMPLE DISTANCE by K.E. Silva

Akashic Books, 205 pages, trade paperback, $14.95 K.E. Silva’s first novel, A Simple Distance, tells the story of Jean Souza and the two worlds she [...]

REVOLUTION ON CANVAS VOLUME 1: POETRY FROM THE INDIE MUSIC SCENE ed. by Rich Balling
reviewed by Erin Gambrill

REVOLUTION ON CANVAS VOLUME 1: POETRY FROM THE INDIE MUSIC SCENE ed. by Rich Balling

Originally published in Verbicide issue #19 Warner/Ad Astra Books, 224 pages, trade paperback, $12.95 True story: I was shopping the other day when I heard [...]

HELLO, I’M SPECIAL by Hal Niedzviecki
reviewed by Erin Gambrill

HELLO, I’M SPECIAL by Hal Niedzviecki

Originally published in Verbicide #18 City Lights Books, 258 pages, trade paperback, $15.95 If you’re anything like me, you’ve found yourself watching reality television, mouth [...]

NOIR REUNION by Johnny Ostentatious
reviewed by Erin Gambrill

NOIR REUNION by Johnny Ostentatious

Active Bladder Press, 213 pages, trade paperback, $10.00 Have you ever had the fleeting thought that one of those B movies they show on television [...]