Let kneecaps go jelly, let collarbones go rot Slice the hand’s sinews because that’s all you’ve got Blood and snot and tears and piss and puke and come Maybe therein is the answer to what you have ...

To settle for both the physical and mental mass produced mediocrity of the status quo and the herd like attraction to the ‘trending’ feature of the moment, is soul suicide. If people could only stop ...

I’m thinking things through: through the eye of a needle, through a glass darkly, and through thick and thin. It’s mostly through thick, to be honest: thick as two short planks and, naturally, thick ...

She didn’t want to sell her mother’s ring but he told her to so she sold her mother’s ring she didn’t want to fall downstairs and break three ribs but she dodged him so she fell downstairs and broke ...

(For Tony Rogers) Closing time, back to his, he rolls a joint. We talk of how we were obsessed with Led Zeppelin And read Hermann Hesse and Doris Lessing when we were young before we knew each other.

I can’t mend your bird that’s broken, but sleep; and see what the next day brings.

Arthur was likely not a historical figure but a mythical hero whose legends were later ‘historicized’ in early medieval Welsh texts. It is noted that the earliest sources present Arthur as a figure of ...

READER: I see according to the Mail, The Telegraph, The Sun, The Express and BeeGee News that Britain’s economy is booming, despite the fact that Johnny Foreigner is taking all our jobs and warm ...

‘Forks and spoons and abstract tunes,’ Bozzy is a self-described ‘big scruffy old man with a big scruffy old beard.’ But there’s a great deal more to David John Boswell than that. The ‘Intro’ to his ...

Is it time for a New Wave of Sword & Sorcery fiction? Or is the appeal of the genre so grounded in its identifying themes that it would be foolish to tamper with its time-proven ingredients? Maybe ...

Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer and translator with 32 books published, including eight solo/jointly edited books. His poetry and prose are published across more than one ...

Notification appears as I sit typing this in reaction to De Peape’s Surreal soundtrack to reality’s knife in our backs; Now flesh twists. For the heavens’ howl can be heard, even as words are neutered ...