BY KRISANGI SARMA Editor’s note: Krisangi Sarma, I’m happy to say that you are now a published author. Thank you for submitting this heartbreaking, but beautifully written story. Keep up the good work! AT Dani returned to the study after his third suicide attempt. The blues got into him, again. There was an empty bottle […]
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
LOOMING THOUGHTS FOR THE UNDER INSTRUCTED AMERICA
BY NATHAN J. BUSH The birth of a hoax. The birth of a virus. The birth of a menace. 2020 was the realization that the American dream is drowning in the afterbirth of our nation. It was no surprise when 2020 became the first year in many where school pals unexpectedly cutting their peer’s lives […]
LEGACY OF ILLNESS
BY ROBBIE BROOKS It’s night now here in Australia. It’s quiet. For the last few months that I’ve been here, I have felt safe from the clutches of America’s Covid problem. Sure, this disease has affected the entire world, but nothing can compare to the childish handling of it by the old U.S. of A. […]
ELUCIDATION OF A DAYDREAM
BY CHANDLER HARLAN GEBHART Blinded by the past in my pursuit of the future, I’ve been in the middle of everything that mattered and stood among the great without having the tools to recognize it. It doesn’t have to be this way. Saving myself is now a mandate. Once I realized I was exactly […]
SPLATTERED SYNCHRONICITIES
BY ERICA LETTIE The grumble of a 1969 Chevy Nova turning over in a graveyard is the appropriate sound. For my old friend, host, and chauffeur for the weekend, 2020 was not an entire loss. Blue with two white stripes up the hood and no shoulder belts. Sauntering through one of Louisiana’s old cemeteries, the […]
