#23: Enter The Octagon (Of Holidays.)
His voice, crisp like apple vodka, poured into the September air. “The chandelier is decadent, yes, but its existence is an act of defiance,” he said, raising an ink-stained finger. “It is delicate, doomed by its delicacy. It will break. This is certain. And yet, until then, it insists on its noble fragility. It will not compromise its vision to suit the environment.” — “Daughter of Ants” by Natasha Ayaz, Hobart.
Here’s a fun song for you to play in two weeks. (The spirit of the song pairs well with the spirit of this mash-up.)
BLACK BEATLES: R&B COVERS 1963-1972. (Spotify.)
Friends of Hobart: Kevin Maloney’s Horse Girl Fever is set to be published by Clash Books in 2023. (via.) Claudia Lundhal’s chapbook, An Accumulation of Vapors, is set to be published next year by Gob Pile Press (via.) Cassie Murray has a new newsletter you can read here. Quentin Lucas had an all-world essay published in The American Scholar, which you can read here. Devon Capizzi’s My Share of the Body will be available for order in nine days. Nine days!
Hungry for content.
A HAD story by Trini Rogando you might have missed — “Under the gaze of wide-headressed girls, magician billionaires, light-up screens and groping drunks, I suddenly see in Bally’s Casino a church.”
Always hungry for content.
Always hungry for content.
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