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Fear and loathing in a Police State
By Sean Brady With the current events in New York City fresh in my mind – the Murder of Eric Gardener in Staten Island, the shooting of unarmed Michael brown in Ferguson Missouri, the shooting of unarmed Akai Gurley in a Brooklyn stairwell, the shooting death of seven year old […]
Dancing with an epileptic 8-legged shark
by Grant Goodwine As an artist, Recently I’ve found myself winding up in discussions and asked for advice from other creative people- usually involving their frustrations in their works. Or about how much of a perfectionist they are and how frustrated they get when it doesn’t turn out the exact […]
Nodding Out on Old Cape Cod
By David Pratt “I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm, and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness.” – William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch “When I was doing drugs, […]
Live or Die Trying
By: Maven Cade Leary “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?” – Hunter S. Thompson Whenever I decide to move, I tend to do so suddenly and with great force. Such […]
I Had A Dream-And You Were In It
By: Ashley Beth I Had A Dream–And You Were In It, and You and You “I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You […]
Moxley and Eirene: Moonshine King, Burgoo Queen
By: Ron Whitehead & Greta Render Mama gave me a tin cup when I was a boy. Til I left home, when I was 17, I wore a thin rope, to hold my pants up. I’ve always been skinny. I kept my tin cup, and a knife with a bottle […]
Disrobing the Sheep
Or: Recession, Oppression and The Third Law of Motion “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” – Sir Isaac Newton Aside from Newtonian physics being pretty much obliterated by Einstein and Hawkins and nano-physics and quantum physics and string theory and particle wave theory and multiverses and […]
Tale of the Dark Troubadour
Donnie Casto II The average observant eye, this man was at best a prototype. Three times in his life, he had faced death and survived. Perhaps it was a spiritual blessing from the Cherokee roots that flowed through his veins. Maybe it was his Nordic temperament to survive the coldest […]