BY ROB AZEVEDO I have a confession to make: I haven’t smelled poop in seven weeks. I mean, not a hint, a whiff, the slightest tang of that rank odor. Not mine, yours, the dog, the trucker in the stall next to me or anyone else’s has gotten past these nostrils since the beginning of […]
Ralph Steadman's Viral Menace in the New Age
The following are original stories by guest authors who submitted their stories to accompany Ralph Steadman's Viral Menace artwork. I am publishing them in the order they were received. Thank you! Anita Thompson
ALWAYS THE DEPRESSION
BY ERIC BOYD The picture was everywhere. Seemed like every time I turned my phone on it’d beep and vibrate and ring until I turned it back off. Yo did u see? Hey are you ok? Wasn’t that ur friend? To all three, yes. The cop that shared the photo was suspended with pay. He […]
THERE WILL BE MASKS
BY UZOMAH UGWU The nights were arched on his thoughts like his mind couldn’t sail away. He stayed with a current that pushed away sanity. The TV was on, the stove turned off itself yet there were flames starting in all sections of the apartment. Bryan’s mind was strong in delusion, loyal to his medications’ […]
UNFRIENDLY GHOST
BY STEPHEN FAULKNER At first it was invisible, no amount of cajoling and nagging could convince anyone that this gaseous menace existed. We had been fooled before, we won’t be fooled again, like with that whole Jesus and God skit. Yet constantly, graphs were shown on TV and constantly death came, the count an obsession, […]
AFTER QUARANTINE, NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS
BY NATALIE FELDER At the start of the pandemic in the Spring, we watched from the couch as they announced everything was going to be shut down for a few weeks to “flatten the curve”. This was news I absolutely dreaded. Woefully, the words came from the anchor in slow motion, and by the commercial […]
