Roman’s house was the stooping puke-green one at the end of the street. After his grandfather ventured out one winter and suffered a stroke,...

Rain was coming down hard and my plushies were on their period. I chewed on the fingernails growing like fungi from the soil of the TV scree...

Deteriorating Substance, by Brendan McCarthy "To have committed every crime, but that of being a father."  Emil Cioran, The Troubl...

As a black metal fan, I had to learn to distinguish between art and artist pretty quickly. As many of you may know from the best-selling boo...

Richard Ramirez: “I am beyond your experience. I am beyond good and evil. I will be avenged.” I really enjoyed this character-driven novel, ...

Picture by Brendan McCarthy I’m slapping band-aids on the cracks in the pavement,          and gluing my dead skin mask but the tremors alr...

I’ve never touched anything hard enough to leave a fingerprint,  my blood is too stale for DNA, and my seed is the rusted urine darkening th...