BY MARTIN COULTER I’m 44 from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Completed collage and attended university for three semesters before realizing a piece of paper on the wall was overrated. Worked in an office before stints with Air Canada and the LCBO. Have lived in Australia while traveling to Papua New Guinea for scuba diving certification. Spent […]
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
IMPLOSION OF FEAR
BY MARTIN WINDEBACK Viral Menace – Martin John Windebank Damn you! You woke me up you bastard, I was at peace before you arrived you absolute nightmare, I am haunted by you day and night, scratching at my dreams. So I guess you win… I’m awake cowling in the corner shivering, peeking through the […]
WHERE’S THE PLAUGE? The Spread of Idiocy
BY SEAN HEALY “Where’s the plague?” Little could he know, this rude old man was foretelling the globe’s fate. In just 3 years we’d meet that damned Viral Menace! Moolah LanesCirca 2017, I was joined by 3 other brave souls, daring to live after a life of struggle and gasped breath after grasped breath. The […]
TREASURES OF THOUGHT
BY RILEY JOHNSTON Somewhere in the unconstrained present we sat wasteless, pondering the degrading fall of corrupt politicians and the viral menace of misinformation – while resisting the restlessness of current situation. Consistently digging through burrows of confusion, containing the treasures of thought and neglecting the retaliation of proper confrontation. A last minute tribute to […]
IN THE MIDDLE
BY SEBASTIAN WINKELMANN There I was once again, living some strange life with roots to deep to belong to my own existence, the lapse of misfortune yet complex encounter with such fucked up type of situation, whatever it was it was gone and so was I, maybe it was the moment I planned all along […]
