My Next, Best Book—In Dot Point Jack Bastock For my next, best book, I have the first line put up on billboards. In a big, bold font. In every major city. Other random excerpts appear on the billboards that line roadsides.In a few places the boards form a sequence. The passages fly by in order…
Rivet 18 When they’re arrested, they each say, in testimony, that they “just had to read” what had been written, “way up there—whatever the risk.” —Jack Bastock Rivet 18 is one of our most authentic, affecting, and experimental. You’ll find stories of dark and light, written by authors who are unafraid to look underneath and behind…
faintly it echoes inside head Nicholas Alti three mile tentaclepushes inside my mouth makes me smilei smile now stars are dead fishswimming in dark …
Walk with Me Wim Hylen Part I. Captivity I like the Sandpeople. They’re friendly, with their wide grins and lilting greetings. “Helloooo,” they shout as I pass, waving their shovels. According to the Daily Herald, they reject materialism and embrace childlike simplicity. Hence, their fondness for sandboxes. Children resent the takeover of their space. Toddlers…
Putting on “Space Suit” Zach Powers In high school my friend Reed drove a boxy white Dodge outfitted with a custom sound system several times more valuable than the car itself. Two after-market tweeters protruded from the columns on either side of the windshield, stuck there with double-sided tape, thin black wires worming away under…
