Last Winter Here
By Emma Healey Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2008 Curtains. I take an English lit class once a week in this […]
It Was Fun Until It Wasn’t: Broken Pencil, 1995-2024
It is with profound sadness that I announce the closure of Broken Pencil Magazine, an independent publication I co-founded 30 […]
BP is Closed, But You Can Still Access Our Archives
Dear friends, Broken Pencil’s fabulous thirty year run has concluded. But we are going to keep our website and archives […]
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.
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."
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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Sickness
By Jessica Faulds Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Quarter-Finalist 2008 After he graduated from high school, receiving honours and an award for […]
Panties
By Greg Kearney Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Runner-Up 2008 All my favourite panties, ruined. I pull one pair after another out […]
Amsterdam at Midnight
By Graham Parke Indie Writers’ Deathmatch Champion 2008 I can’t sleep and head out, wondering how long this can go […]
Hollywood Sandwich
By Henry Presente Nobody tells me how to run my business. Not nobody. You like my sandwiches, eat a sandwich. […]
Skim
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Goldstein on Goldstein
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Editor’s Note
By Lindsay Gibb I’ve always had a problem with food. In grade school I used to give away my lunch […]
Deleted Zines
Digging the dirt on ex-zinesters By Nathaniel G. Moore “When I was six or seven I had a subscription to […]
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