Death, drugs, drunkeness, disaster… polaroids reimagine notorious vacations from literature, news and film on Lake Wequaquet, Cape Cod.
My intention is to be open, willing, and ready to any opportunity that might reveal itself as fruitful - to be in the right place at the right time, and, with the help of the universe, have all the pieces within my frame align with balance, order, and meaning.
Unlikely Stories turned 20 years old on July 1, 2018. The 20th Anniversary Issue was released on July 4, 2018 and included more than a hundred authors and artists.
Hands entangled in Mother’s hair, I had pulled her head back and exposed her throat to the sun. Suddenly many figures emerged in the dream, confrontations in a wooden booth.
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Recent Articles:
"Stones Doomed to Bloom," "The World Is a Sandwich," and "Joy"
by Ivan Peledov
Six Paintings, May 2020
by E.E. King
"Reality: Apraxis," "Telling Time" and "Perpetuite / Self-Portrait"
by D.C. Wojciech
"History Gets Tired Too" and "Outer Space"
by Tim Suermondt
"The Poem I Didn't" and "Zen, Hunger"
by Pui Ying Wong
It Was Summertime
by Anthony C. Murphy
Ode to Brittany Howard
by Alex Z. Salinas
"Too Long in Bed," "As Always," and "Connecting"
by Martina Reisz Newberry
Unlocking Purple
by James Penha
"The Toast," "Animal Farm," and "Grids / lock"
by Mark Young
"Pandemic" and "Gunmetal Sky"
by Howie Good
"Yehuda Amichai/Emily Brontë" and "Barely"
by Gloria Mindock
Thinking of Ice Cream
by HW fitzroy
"Scanning the Headlines" and "An American Dream"
by Barry Wallenstein
"Buying Tatty a Picnic Basket" and "Emotional Quandaries and Other Soft Targets"
by KJ Hannah Greenberg
RNA
by Gary Beck
"Ernst Swims in the Room" and "Hypnagogic Viral Proclivities"
by James Grabill
Nine Paintings, May 2020
by Stephen Harrison
"On Road 30" and "A Feeling"
by Zsuzsanna Peremartoni, translated by Gabor G. Gyukics
"Madman Above the City," "My Mind Stripped Bare by Its Absence, Uneven," and "Criminological"
by Paul Edward Costa
Dirty Realism
by Sandra Arnold
The F Word
by Jeremy Nathan Marks
"bleep sid toaves of peace," "boxing in the kitchen with the landlord," and "that deed is a star on the flag, for sure"
by J. D. Nelson
Phaeton drives his car into the sea
by Dennis Formento
Imaginary Conversation (I Chickened Out) In The Bathroom of Mac's Bar With A Biker Chick (Who I Actually Did See)
by Amy Ballard Rich
Migration
by Diane Payne
Mirror, Image & Mirage
by Andrew Brezna
"Here Was I We Are" and "Late Stage"
by Richard Wells
Against the Light
by Amber Burke
On reading Wendy Taylor Carlisle’s “On the Way to the Promised Land Zoo”
by Darryl / Dadou / Baron Wawa
"Delicate Indeed. Yet So Fragile" and "Public Discourse"
by Eleanor Swanson
"Oh, this," "Oh, and this," and "Things fall apart"
by Mike Boyle
The Dead Are Always with Us
by L. Shapley Bassen
"Knowing My Limits" and "Fleeting Vision"
by Ed Ahern
Door Number One
by Chris Butters
Making Wun Ugly Scene
by Joe Balaz
Three Poems of the Last Generation
by T.D. Walker