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Big Rock Candy Mountain

Harry McClintock February 24, 2023

Where they hung the jerk / That invented work

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In Issue #8, Poetry

The Republic of Dreams

Alexander Billet February 24, 2023

His work is better suited / for panic attacks / than anything smacking of pride.

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Long Hours Away from Home

Mike Linaweaver February 24, 2023

these parasitic hours sitting through the night

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Free Black History

Richard Hamilton February 24, 2023

Free as black ants in a bladed line.

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Stink Ape Resurrection Primer (Part Four)

Tish and Adam Turl February 24, 2023

As Ello turned off the world she searched its jails and prison cells for Dr. Ferthus.

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In Issue #8, Fiction

The Land of Cokaygne

Unknown (14th Century) February 24, 2023

In Cokaygne food and drink are had without worry, trouble or toil. 

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Golden Hour

Adam Marks February 24, 2023

“They know what you’re up to,” said the Voice. “You’re going to blow the whole thing. We should never have trusted you.” 

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Invitation to Lubberland

Unknown (17th Century) February 24, 2023

‘Hot roasted pigs will meet ye,

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In Issue #8, Poetry

The Red Temple

Mike Linaweaver February 24, 2023

“Lay down your labors, good worker. 
Put off your boots and gloves. 
Enter, and be among your comrades whole.”

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In Issue #8, Poetry

My Body's Long Term Plan

R. Faze February 24, 2023

We are in the future. Not too distant future. We’re not flying in a spaceship or anything. We’re in a big rig semi, with a huge cabin, like a tiny house. On a road that looks like I-40, but the road sign we just passed said I-3958.

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Das Märchen von Schlauraffen

The Brothers Grimm February 24, 2023

Then a cock crowed, Cock-a-doodle-doo! The story is all told--Cock-a-doodle-doo!

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In Issue #8, Fiction

From: PxmB Central Mainframe 

Adam Marks February 24, 2023

My Species and I saw you from across the void and we really dig your vibe. We wanted to reach out to you so we sent you this email, all of you. We hope you don’t mind. 

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In Issue #8, Fiction

Abandoned Mining Town

John Grey February 24, 2023

I heard scurrilous things: 
babies with two heads
locked in the attic,

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Rail Against

Richard Hamilton February 24, 2023

exploit, object. St. Louis as beeswax, resin

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In Issue #8, Poetry

Landlord Audacity

Richard Hamilton February 24, 2023

You, from inside your  
publishing house of  
unearned income, 

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In Issue #8, Poetry
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Fascist Pizza
Editorial
Feb 12, 2025
Fascist Pizza
Editorial
Feb 12, 2025

American fascism has a plastic shopping mall nostalgia. It is the fascism, not of a young empire thwarted, but an empire in decline. It is, at one level, a photograph of an abandoned Pizza Hut with the caption “This is what they took from us.”

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Editorial
Feb 12, 2025
Featured
Theses on the Theatrical Party
Irrealist Combat League
Nov 28, 2023
Theses on the Theatrical Party
Irrealist Combat League
Nov 28, 2023

The Theatrical Party embraces the organization of pessimism in contrast to the false optimism of the left. To be a revolutionary pessimist is to separate the political actor from their role. It is this separation which, in the epic theater of Brecht, invited a critical outlook on the performance from its participants and spectators — the first step in the transformation of spectators into collaborators, a task integral to both theater and the forging of a revolutionary party.

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Irrealist Combat League
Nov 28, 2023
Constructing Counter-Imaginaries
Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
Oct 31, 2023
Constructing Counter-Imaginaries
Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
Oct 31, 2023

We want a record of the real in the work — as in the cotton and ash — as well as reclamations of our history and imaginaries constructed against the limits of working-class imaginations by capitalist realism. So the individual pieces are sort of vignettes of class pathos and poetry, often in an irreal idiom, and all together representing, as much as we can, the limitless expansive nature of these stories in aggregate. 

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Anupam Roy, Tish Turl and Adam Turl
Oct 31, 2023
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My Body's Claims, Verified
R. Faze
Apr 23, 2025
My Body's Claims, Verified
R. Faze
Apr 23, 2025

The mansion had to be more than twenty thousand square feet, with five wings; it took up two acres. In the backyard, a giant infinity pool overlooking downtown L.A., a jacuzzi big enough for a football team, an industrial-size outdoor kitchen that could feed two hundred people, thirty-two-seat table made of rough-cut red wood with an eight-inch-thick top, three brick fireplaces, eight open firepits, two pizza ovens, and more trees and flowerbeds than in a Vegas resort.

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R. Faze
Apr 23, 2025
In the Marshes
Adam Marks
May 11, 2024
In the Marshes
Adam Marks
May 11, 2024

“It snatched a dog two days ago, in Drapers Fields,” Detective Constable Habib explained back at the station to her superior, “right in front of its owner. They found its entrails wrapped around a lamppost on the High Road. It’s head was…”

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Adam Marks
May 11, 2024
Featured
Hospitality Engine
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
Hospitality Engine
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025

Naugahyde seats crackle and groan under my knees, / sounds like taking shoes off at the end of the night, / when I remember that the first computer / was a woman named Ada Lovelace / who worked from home, mailing numbers to a Difference Engine

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Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
KCHUNK vs. The Bop Bags
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025
KCHUNK vs. The Bop Bags
Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025

We walk in the firelight of foreclosed homes, / smoke thick as the ink of old contracts,

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Tish Turl
Apr 29, 2025

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