Field Notes of A Markov Chain Store Detective
By Keith Buckley Monday Asked to identify early 1950s style part time bacteriologist discovered in a string of modish Jacopetti […]
TOOLKIT: How to Save Your Books From Flooding
On New Years Eve, Silver Sprocket rang things in on a damp note. Their HQ was slammed by historic rain. Here's how the radical publisher spared their stock from the flood.
Poster Boy: Dril On Art, Philosophy, Life Beyond Twitter, All That Garbage
"People will beg for AI-free content like they do for water that isn’t tainted with lead. And when AI becomes synonymous with ‘Shit,’ it will die like every other Silicon Valley Clown Show and nobody will miss it."
Review: Nothing Without Us Too
With many of these speculative stories rooted in sci-fi, the line between reality and metaphor nearly disappears, playing with a reader’s inability to clearly differentiate between fact and fiction when it comes to the realities of disability.
Review: Beat The Rust
Life doesn’t unfold in a neat narrative, neither does Kelly Fruh's brief, deft, illustrated vignettes.
Introducing Broken Pencil 103: Cruel to be Kind
There are brighter days underground. Our latest issue features Cruelty Squad creator and Finnish artist Ville Kallio speaking about the anticipated follow-up to his unlikely hit and giving video games an overdue shock to their system.
Call for Submissions: Urban Legends
Overview “Urban Legends” is a compilation zine about urban legends, local myths, and folklore. Share your writing or art that’s […]
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The Liberator
By Glyn Rebl 1. Bacchus frolics happily in between the verdant vines on the hillside in Havlíčkovy sady. Merry and insouciant, […]
From Halifax, With Love
Dear Alison Creba (AKA City Mail Postmaster), Two summers have passed since you first planted the seeds of City Mail […]
When You Escape by Jessica Stewart
The works under “When You Escape” are artist Jessica Stewart’s musings on dreams and those who wander lost in their […]
Indie Events: January 24-29
Image by Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline: “Rupersland Handicraft” created at the Martha Street Studios. After a little hibernation post-NYE, events are kicking […]
Deathmatch V Begins!
The Indie Writers Deathmatch starts today! Eight stories have been selected, and each week two will be posted to rival one another in the online […]
Lo and I Are Laughing
The seven o’clock news is reporting tragedy, highway tragedy, and Lo and I are laughing. Bobby MacElwain, aged 89, decided […]
Mad Pride
Zinesters challenge stigmas around mental illness one photocopied page at a time Behind every good zine lies a good reason […]
Friday Round-Up: Found on the Internet
A short and sweet round-up of what we read this week, mostly Tumblr because it’s like the hottest and laziest […]
The Neighbour
By Samantha Bernstein He sat and watched the street for hours. Some days there wouldn’t be a single pretty girl. […]