Chew- Edaurdo Jones

Bite, chew, spit, how hard could it be? I mean really, what the fuck are your options right now? The bone is already broken. That would’ve been the hardest part. Just open your mouth sink your teeth in and tear the meat away. It’s definitely easy to tell yourself this. But Jesus fucking Christ actually [...]

Answers Without Questions- Mel Cartagena

Answers Without Questions By Mel Cartagena To: benwayd@hinterlands.org Cc: Subject: Answers without questions Doc: Don’t hear from you anymore ever since you got transferred to forensic pathology. Either the work is so easy you don’t want to share the gravy train with me, or you’re too busy to send me a social email. Either way, [...]

BRONZE

Gold, Silver and Bronze Growing up being exposed to as much Hollywood propaganda as I have, it comes as little surprise that when it comes to women, I am pretty superficial.  If all the years I spent watching Beverly Hills 90210 has taught me anything, it’s that good looking people have all the fun, interesting [...]

Have You Seen This Girl?-Jack Varnell

  I sat sleepy eyed one morning enduring yet another cardboard and treebark bran flavored bowl of breakfast with milk, 2 percent of course, and I stared at the carton. First I reviewed the measures of various fat content, and nutritional values listed as a matter of law. 

How to Stand Proud in Florida- Jim Silvestri

How to Stand Proud in Florida At some point in recent history, the sculpture of fountains in the shape of urinating children, and the acquisition of said fountains, must have been declared unfashionable.  Before that point—or more likely a considerable time after—a dozen or so of these hideous constructs found their way on the front [...]

The Life Force Vampire-W.G. Mullins

  The Life Force Vampire In my life I have met thousands of random people. Some of them have been my life- long best friends, some have been random one off encounters or lovers and some have even been sworn enemies. In the midst of my near 33 years on this planet I have encountered [...]

The Greatest Goal Ever Scored-W.G. Mullins

  The Greatest Goal Ever Scored I’m not really one for sports. That is to say I love watching them and I count football (or soccer for you Yanks) and Formula One as my main hobbies. However since I’ve never really had the opportunity to drive an F1 car, the only real sporting activities I’ve [...]

Drastic sabotaged by unscrupulous Techniques & The Gun Toting Tweaker- Edaurdo Jones

6:45PM – Drastic sabotaged by unscrupulous Techniques By this time, the DJ battles are ready to begin and the masses are filing into the stage area by the dozen. Columbus’s hometown hero Drastic is scheduled to do battle. He’s a master Technique technician. He works two turntables and a mixer like Eddie Van Halen works [...]

Grafitti soaked streets of soul- Diana Rose

The sound of a lone freight train breaks the hush of golden filtered light. Autumn afternoon.. reminder that the green of the yard and the tangerine dreamscope isn’t far from the urban jungle ; the grime of city streets and the graffiti splashed buildings. Light in autumn dances through leaves of trees, lingers longingly across [...]

Camphor-Mark Paleologo AKA Evil Dick

  Camphor ……………….. I walked alone until I had eaten all of the bio-luminescent thoughts I could find. At the end of it there was a wall with graffiti in a dead language and marginally living translator clutching a rat in his one good hand. My heart stopped beating for two bars during the crescendo [...]