BY DANIEL ZEBERT We saw the dreadwalking Rue Futuredraped in synthetic fabricscapable of deliberately cultivatingrobotic cold-blooded hope,systematically programming optimism,using our dreams toenslave us.Wide open mouthslike baby birds in a thunderstorm,not enough sense toturn our faces from falling rainandkeep from drowninginour own beds.Ignoring the smellrising from beneaththe floorboards.Politely steeringconversation to acul-de-sac oflife’s trivialities;avoiding the lowstink 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
RUMINATIONS OF A SKI BUM
BY ERIC OLANDER Crawled out of bed and god damned, for skiing was no more. Mother Earth finally had her appointment at the free clinic and is getting treatment for the cancer that is mankind. Viruses her equivalent to our Chemo. Agency to kill off the malignancy. The circle of life a circle and not […]
VIRAL WAVES
BY GANDALF C. The Essence of the afternoon was pale and somber. Cloud cover had smothered my beach location’s bid for a sixth sunny day. With the sky being so dark I was blindsided when I saw my phone…1:17. “Holy Hell” , I glanced down to notice my white shirt was now soaked in a dark red crimson. […]
THE ASSAULT PON SCIENCE AND REASON; AND THE RISE OF THE DUMB
BY JAMES WALL The coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic seeped out of Wuhan Province a little over a year ago and spread around the U. S. and the rest of the world at arguably the worst possible time with a cruel and hostile compulsive liar in the White House and his supporters poised for […]
A WARM BED & A GENUINE SMILE
BY JASON WHITE The Poppy, a symbol of hope and courage rather than its profitable cousin which we knowingly create opioids and heroin with, the flower from Flanders’s is certainly a Gemini. Two years ago, we suffered through a cultural objection regarding pucks and sticks and so-called icons. ‘You people’ witnessed one old man yelling […]
