A WORK OF TREMENDOUS FICTION WORTH IS WEIGHT IN LEAD-BASED HOMINY BY JOSH POOLE & TRAVIS WELLMAN A feral trapped in the domestic environs of blue-collar labor by rent-harvesting savages. I’m a visual artist and cartoonist working out of rural Virginia with an eye for the absurd and an ear for the unvoiced. My mission […]
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
THE QUARANTINE BEFORE THE FIRE
BY KEITH STEVENSON March 13th, 2021: On this day one year ago, I exited Chicago’s O’Hare airport holding the no-knock-arrest-warrant for my industry in the form of an altered flight itinerary clutched in my fist. At that point, the music industry was the first ‘viral casualty’ on the American landscape that was largely unaware […]
BOBBY MENTOR’S BEST SONG
BY MICHAEL GATLIN The music permeated the arena. The walls shook with thumping bass and pounding drums. Everyone was cheering. The guitar stings vibrated through the huge amplifiers. The singer was shirtless and screeching to the heavens for love and freedom and answers to questions he knew better than to ask. It had been two […]
I MET HER TWO DAYS BEFORE THE WORLD CHANGED
BY MICHAEL ANTONIO PAGANO Michael Antonio Pagano is a 28 year old Writer, Actor and Comedian. I met her two days before the world changed. I had just finished my shift bar tending when this girl caught my eye as she walked in with her friends. It was a very slow night at the bar, […]
SO WHAT HAPPENED WITH YOUR LAST GIRLFRIEND?
BY PAUL KELLY My name is Paul Kelly. I am originally from the south of Ireland but have been living in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 13 years. I work part time as a writer and teacher. In my free time I love to explore the streets of Tokyo and walk in the footsteps of […]
