BY FRANCES KANOUS It has been one year since we boarded the ride we’ve come to know as Covid. I know that it’s been exactly one year because the internet reminded me. On This Day: We had recently been informed that our offer on a house was accepted. A ranch in a tree lined neighborhood, […]
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
HUELL HOWSER COULD HAVE NEVER IMAGINED A VACATION LIKE THIS
BY BOB McCOLLUM Officer, that’s my bag! And there I was, dangling. These feet were suspended 100 feet off the ground, watching the mountain dew settle on the Great Smoky Mountains. The hangover was just about gone, but I could picture myself heaving onto the ground below the skylift. The swaying of the rickety swing […]
I LOVED DOLLY BEFORE LOVING DOLLY WAS COOL
BY STEPHEN ROGER POWERS Thirty-one years ago this month, I was stopped at Checkpoint Charlie trying to cross into East Berlin. The Wall had opened only four months before, but it was still very much East and West Germany. The border guard, who looked every inch the Hollywood cliché of a frightening Soviet-era official, demanded […]
ASPHALT VIRAL MENACE
BY JASON GERRY When this batshitcrazy psyc-op war came flying into the mainland uSA, I was a cannabis farmer in a smoky fat city, otherwise known as Commerce City Colorado. Home of DICKS sporting goods park, Oil refineries, metal yards, quarries, car transfer stations and O yes, Yes plenty of indoor Pot farms, Even though […]
DON’T BE SCARED OF COLOUR
BY JOSH BUCHANAN The Viral Menace – This was one true beast. They were only, and if, nothing short of the word. Despite all pronouns in the world, one could give it no gender, or even an apt description. The internet itself wasn’t vast enough to confine this creation. Wether the rest of the world, or […]
