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Vanilla Primitive

by Lawrence Ythzak Braithwaite
for Nick & John, MArKING, Gardner (G), Gerard “JustG” Witaker & ELeMentaL

image by Vic Arndt
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Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotism of the Old World, travel through South America, search out every abuse and when you have found the last, lay your facts by […]

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New Maps of Hell

by Symon Brando

image by Rebecca Cannon
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A man shrugs off the clucking of his family and makes his way to International Departures. With the ticketing formalities over, he slumps at the bar and orders drinks.
He sits and waits.
To escape.
A wicked love gone horribly, horribly wrong. Sour times polyfill the cracks, forcing him to seek joy in […]

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New Ways with Polystyrene

by Jane Ormond

Illustrations by Daniel New
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This is an excerpt from Cardigan Press’s recent anthology, Machines Will Not Give Change. Thanks to Cardigan Press and Jane Ormond for permission to reproduce it here. For more on Cardigan Press, see here.
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I am Cleopatra, Queen of Denial. I lie here, refusing to acknowledge it is 6am. I lie […]

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Roswell

by Dennis McDade

images by Billy Vasilios Mavreas
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DRAGGING A COMET TAIL OF RED DIRT, the battered El Camino left the narrow road with a groan of tortured metal. Sailing over a barbed wire fence, it came to rest in a shallow pond of stagnant water. After a few weak sputters, the fatigued engine fell silent as […]

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The Shadow & The Swarm

by Andrés Vaccari

Image by Carla Gottgens
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Andres Vaccari’s tale of fear, madness, the unfathomable nature of existence and perception and, of course, the End of the World – as seen through the eyes of an insect. Stare into the void with this modern existential classic…
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It comes with no warning, shadowing the earth like the wings of […]

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