Special FeaturerbdBrian Alan Ellis, poetry, special feature

Brian Alan Ellis: Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester

Special FeaturerbdBrian Alan Ellis, poetry, special feature
Brian Alan Ellis: Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester
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Endorse Me on LinkedIn as a Domino’s Pizza Quality Tester or GTFO My Face

                              

Life is what happens to you

while you are busy eating cereal

and waiting for death.

 

And just existing is bad enough but now

people are expected to pre-exist??

 

And spiritually identifying as the last

sip of soda used to extinguish cigarettes

dropped inside a 20 ounce Dr. Pepper bottle

may or may not being going okay.

 

And compulsively repeating the phrase

“nightmare person”

while self-reflecting in the shower

may or may not be the real me.

 

And is there a Marvel character called

Super Dead Inside Guy, and if not,

how come??

BRIAN ALAN ELLIS runs House of Vlad Productions, and is the author of three novellas, three short-story collections, two books of humorous non-fiction (Sad Laughter is forthcoming from Civil Coping Mechanisms Press), and Something to Do with Self-Hate, a novel. His writing has appeared at Juked, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Electric Literature, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Funhouse, Heavy Feather Review, Talking Book, and Queen Mob’s Tea House, among other places. He lives in Florida, and tweets sad and clever things at both @brianalanellis and @HouseofVlad.

Special FeaturerbdJames Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry

James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life

James Croal Jackson is the author of The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in FLAPPERHOUSE, Rust + Moth, The Bitter Oleander, and elsewhere. He edits The Mantle and is a former winner of the William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest. Find him in Columbus, Ohio or at jimjakk.com.
 

Special FeaturerbdJames Croal Jackson, special feature, poetry
James Croal Jackson: Meanwhile, in Real Life
Special FeaturerbdTravis Sharp, poetry, special feature

Travis Sharp: No Body Is a Scapegoat

Travis Sharp is a queer writer, artist, and teacher living in Buffalo. He's an editor and designer at Essay Press and at Small Po[r]tions, the author of the chapbook Sinister Queer Agenda (above/ground press, forthcoming), and a PhD student in the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. Other work has appeared with Columbia Poetry Review, LIT, Bombay Gin, Puerto del Sol, Entropy, and elsewhere.

Special FeaturerbdTravis Sharp, poetry, special feature
Travis Sharp: No Body Is a Scapegoat
Special FeaturerbdDavid Joez Villaverde, poetry, special feature

David Joez Villaverde: Rituals to Lesser Gods

David Joez Villaverde has forthcoming or recently published work in Crab Fat Magazine, Occulum, Wigleaf, 100 Word Short Story, Adbusters, After the Pause, Cheap Pop, and Hoot. He is former editor of the After Happy Hour Review. He can be found at schadenfreudeanslip.com or @academicjuggalo on the Twitter.

 

Special FeaturerbdDavid Joez Villaverde, poetry, special feature
David Joez Villaverde: Rituals to Lesser Gods
Special FeaturerbdDavid Hanlon, poetry, special feature

David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange

David Hanlon is from Cardiff, Wales, and currently living in Bristol, England. He has a BA in Film Studies & is training part-time as a counsellor/therapist. You can find his work online in or forthcoming with Calamus Journal, Occulum, Riggwelter Press, Dirty Paws Poetry Review, Into The Void, Impossible Archetype & The Rising Phoenix Review, among others.

Special FeaturerbdDavid Hanlon, poetry, special feature
David Hanlon: As Fickle as an Orange Is Orange