A BASIC SUMMARY OF THE NEWS CYCLE OF THE LAST 12 MONTHS OR SO… BY TAMMY TAIT The perfect shit storm of humanity has happened and we did not have enough TP on hand. We were so overwhelmed with work, money, family, picket fences, teslas and degrees and success.. burn out was imminent … the […]
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
GLOBAL P(ANDEMIC)TSD
BY CATHERINE MCGUIRE In the beginning, my trauma therapist hinted that he believed humanity as a whole was going through a traumatic experience. There is so much to talk about. Experiencing the event. This is the part everyone remembers the most vividly. It’s the part people share when talking about the pandemic. It’s […]
THE MAD COOK
BY CHRIS KOZAK The mad cook is altering the very purpose of sandwiches from an efficient protein delivery system into a malevolent tool of anarchy. In a kitchen with gleaming white Porcelain tiles on the walls he is hunched over a wooden chopping block. He is inserting some type of gleaming, futuristic device into a four foot long hoagie. There is the smell of […]
STRAW ROOF
BY DUSTEN GRAMBRELL Am I afraid of trying or failure? I did quit my job of 7 years, sold my house and moved across the country with nothing but a dream to live in the PNW. Anyways that dream is dead; the only difference now from where I once lived is the weather. Oppressive government […]
VIRAL MENACE; A POEM
BY ERROL WORMWOOD cross road blues sitting inside strumming my second hand acoustic gee-tar learning the sounds of past greats inside four walls bottle of Jack on my left, pint of Guinness on my right whiskey glass halfway full of ice slowly melts as condensation trickles down to meet the cherrywood coffee table covered in […]
