by Jasminne Morataya | Jul 24, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2025
Happy Heavenly Birthday Brad Renfro “Manipulated mugshot of Brad Renfro (original 2000)” (2025), NIGHTSHADE (Alejandro Concas-Rivas). Courtesy of artist. WHEN JOSH SCHAEDEL invited me to contribute a text to accompany Steve Kado’s exhibition Stairs at The...
by Victoria Albert | Jul 24, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2025
The Execution It was the twenty-fourth of December and my firm had given us the day off. I thought I would spend the day at home, but the boardinghouse was unbearably loud—the landlady had invited her sisters, and they were clucking and bickering like hens. So...
by Clifford Gant | Jul 24, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2025
Maybe is the Most Beautiful Word in the World Aleatoric: Solely dependent on the throw of a dice or on chance; random. There’s something barreling towards me. Hulking. I can feel it closing in. It’s starting to envelop my future body, which will be my now-body, which...
by Simon Andrews | Jul 24, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2025
What You Missed While You Were Dead Welcome to the Memory Database, Charlie. Who would you like to speak to? Who would I like to speak to? Every time I come here, I try to talk to someone new, someone I’ve never heard of. Let’s try … Rogers. I enter my name of the...
by Marta Gosovska | Jul 24, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2025
My Suitcase of Fragments I’m sitting on the bed, unpacking my suitcase. I’m not entirely sure where I am. Somewhere near the border of France and Switzerland. From the window: a bell tower, a smudge of sky, and the kind of greenery that feels alive. Spring, or...
by Beverly Glass | Jul 24, 2025 | Creative Prose, Creative Prose 2018
Jazz Speaks! Jazz speaksin a language all its own,mysterious and compelling.Captivates people of every age.Regales with melody, rhythm and pattern. Jazz speaksan original American creation.An amalgam of the greats—Straight ahead, bebop, fusion,avant-garde,...
