The Goodyear blimp fleet has fallen into a deep depression ever since sports broadcasts switched over to using drones for their aerial coverage. They sit, semi-deflated in huge hangars, sagging under existential dread. They have contemplated suicide numerous times, but being inanimate objects without the advantage of opposable thumbs, they just sigh heavily at their impotence…
Artists can occupy an odd place in culture, both venerated and dismissed, often in equal measure, as both those chronicling and commenting on a moment in time, as well as dreamers away with the fairies. In terms of the likes of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec it was both at the same time. An artist with no…
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth “He’s not like his mother because he has me, and I will save him. We’re special, Ralph and I. I can cure Ralph. Because it’s what I was born to do. Remember that, Abby, vanquishing this depression is your true calling as a wife.” The strange, almost twee setting of Ainslie…
Devan Shimoyama is an American visual artist who is known for the use of mixed media in his artwork. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1989 Shimoyama was exposed to the world of artistic expression at an early age through his mother, who studied fashion design, and his grandfather, who was a musician. Shimoyama went to…
Not Your Time The light must be busted, I thought. My hands reached out into the deep emptiness, floor boards creaking with reluctant steps. Murmuring voices of my elderly parents and ticking clocks echoed from downstairs. The soft-footed soldiers of memory marched through my mind: my childhood bedroom, packing clothing and coffee pots for college,…
The first stories, at least in the Western tradition, were sung. Going back to ancient Greece, long before the written tradition, foundational narrative works such as The Iliad and The Odyssey recited in poem form, often with the accompaniment of a lyre. A bardic tradition carried on well into the 14th century by the troubadour…
Expat New Yorker James Penha (he/him🌈) has lived for the past three decades in Indonesia. Nominated for Pushcart Prizes in fiction and poetry, his work is widely published in journals and anthologies. His newest chapbook of poems, American Daguerreotypes, is available for Kindle. His essays have appeared in The New York Daily News and The New York Times. Penha edits The New Verse…
Gabrielle Garland is an American artist whose work focuses on a specific subject matter: the home. Born in 1968, Garland seemed destined to become a famous artist as both her parents were well-known artists. At first glance, you can see exactly Garland’s subject matter: houses and interiors. This may seem simplistic and one with meaning…
Friday nights Tyler and Minnie would dress up and share a bottle of good red wine as they slow danced to music like, Can’t Live, if Livin’ is Without You! Then Tyler would glue a modest moustache beneath his nose, and don a wig of straight brown hair that hung like a curtain to his…
A friend turned eighty last month.Thinking of her, how time sweeps us out,the way birch brooms clear away mouse nests,cobwebs. No different from our ancestorsbeating rag rugs in spring sunlight, watchinga weathervane, patterns of clouds, fluffy whitebefore layering like slate tiles. Slip into a longburlap apron and tie the knot behind the back,three times for…
