plenty of time to write while on a trip to australia! fragments: the dark side of you work in progress: lost/found almost finished: wish you were dead -Behind the Devil’s Back-
riot (unfinished) watch us light it up just to see the look on your faces as it’s burning down when they’re deaf to the protests and blind to the struggle their death bed will be made beneath the rubble some call it a riot oblivious that silence isn’t enough indifference, hide it behind due process, a science time to rise up this is who you voted for this is what you wanted this is what you represent this is how you flaunted this is you outside your door this is you unvarnished this is us, you misrepresent preach peace, practice carnage
-FROM THE LIGHT- the shine grows brighter yet i lay still is my fate inebriated or aiming for the kill? this pavement chills me thrills me alive as core memories are unearthed flashing before these eyes who will save me, save me from the light? who will save me, save me tonight? the luminescence playing tricks with my astigmatism it won't be until these eyes shut that i find true vision the shine encapsules yet i lay, still thought i was meant for so much more is there a way without a will? i can see myself against the half rusted chrome the break before the silence are numerous bones who will spare me, spare me from roadside? who will spare me, spare me from this fright? who will spare me? barely i long for the days to be warm again long before cremation but as a seed must die before it grows i seek recreation i long for the days to be whole again from self devastation but as i see the light, now i know my last destination the shine now fading and i lay still still who will save me, save me from the light? who will save me, save me from this fright? who will save me? save me. jcv8481.wordpress.com
Have been so fucking busy with work and home renovations, have not had time to write in quite awhile. But this is very cool :
been working on my second poetry collection more lately. this one is way more difficult than my first, which almost flowed out of me.
I know I've shared it probably at least 3 times in this thread but I've always loved this David Mitchell quote: "If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready."
REMEDY i want to read your mind as if it were braille therefore, lets crack it open like a fortune cookie and discover the riches bountifully afforded curing poison with poison intravenously wills i want to change your mind with the snap of my fingers by using just one against the contour of a trigger rigot mortis then porous curiosity kills i want to blow your mind like lee harvey oswald did john f kennedy i want to show your kind that consequence isn't always swift but doesn't fail to remedy. -Life, After-
Probably my favorite of these predatory scam emails I've received yet. This one claims to be from a reclusive 76-year-old German author/playwright of classic gothic fiction.
One of my friends got one from “Suzanne Collins (yes, that one)” once. We joke about it all the time.
SHO/CKW/AVE/S the shock, it comes in waves like water to earth, covers my brain too much to take in at once reverberating through all i ever was the shock, it comes and goes slithers through my pores, into my bones too many outcomes at play discombobulation fogging the way the shock, it comes in waves crashing into levees that keep me sane my ankles submerged in static and rising rapidly the shock, it still remains long after my optimism has frayed my head still above the electromagnetism against my better wisdom the shock, it comes in waves deaf to the sounds each make blind to the devastation i began dumb to the warnings that i now understand.
I work on a regional history podcast series and we're gearing up for a new season. I mixed and produced this audio trailer (as well as co-wrote and co-narrated it), which was a first for me. Just wanted to share somewhere with yall: The Magic City of the Southwest season two trailer Here's a new essay I wrote for my local alt-weekly: War and Peace in Three Songs And I have an ongoing series on Substack where I've been chronicling my journey of listening to records I've owned for years but haven't found time to listen to, until now. Here's the first installment.
That was a really cool piece on Acrid, thanks for sharing it. I have really no interest in the genre as a whole haha, but it was fascinating to read about your experience with it.
I'm looking to design, format, produce, and print a literary magazine for my 12th grade creative writing class. Any standout companies that anyone's worked with here? I'm looking for something simple, clean, and affordable for my school.
Curious what you mean by company--are you talking about design, or different publications to use as an example?
Just an all-around printing service where I can upload the files/content to, but then on their website/app, the students can design the cover, choose typeset, create the table of contents, etc. And then after print and ship en masse.