'A body weighted down by rocks won’t float, even buoyed up by corpse bloat.'
'MY THERAPIST ASKS ME TO EXPLAIN MY RECURRING DREAMS (I & III).'
Poetry by Chloë Hanson.
thebloodpudding.com/my-thera…
'The Baby I Want to Have
explodes
from my stomach
like a flesh pie splitting with teeth'
'The Baby I Want to Have.'
Poetry by jms xuange (@jmsxuange)
thebloodpudding.com/the-baby…
'There’s no sound now. Just the fizzing of soda slowing to a hush. The ketchup cooling on the plate. Only a thin slice of silence cuts through the room.'
'Six Seconds Taught Me Math.'
Flash by Pamela Smith (@Smith9374)
thebloodpudding.com/six-seco…
'Starlight dripped into a chalice, then he drank from it. Crystamus, son of Light, heir to The Next Focus, Sleeping Being, now awakened.'
'Sleeping Being, Now Awake.'
Flash by Clay Vernon Taylor (@vernonsbayou)
thebloodpudding.com/sleeping…
'I don’t sail, or get in boats of my own free will. I would if dad asked. He did once ... and I went out on the water where my friend caught Hepatitis.'
'floating.'
Poetry by Kayla Stansbury (@KaylaIsWriting)
thebloodpudding.com/floating
'The air is shaking. From beyond the wall of the ocean, a fish catches a glimpse of your glistening surface, and it wonders.'
'She Passed Away Alone at Sea.'
Flash by Leon de la Garza (@leondelag)
thebloodpudding.com/she-pass…
Most of our site is still under routine maintenance but we're dropping our latest issue (The Big Two Zero) on our homepage tomorrow — an 'only tidy the parlor' special. #OnlyWhatTheMotherInLawSees#CompanyIsComing
STATUS CHANGED TO 'IN PROGRESS' SO DON'T GO TELLING ME THEY'RE NOT PASSING IT ROUND THE OFFICE LIKE LOOK AT THIS MASTERPIECE BETTER THAN ANYTHING DOSTOEVSKY EVER DID, BETTER THAN KAFKA AND ALL THAT LOT
One of my favorite pieces I’ve ever written, big thanks to @sarpsozdinler for championing it:’) Check out “I Forgot What Rain Looks Like” (and the other incredible Valentine’s Day exclusives today) over at The Bulb Region!!
“Last time I saw rain, it was a Wednesday. I only remember because it was a Wednesday. Shit always happens on Wednesdays.”
Read the first of our four V-Day exclusives, “I Forgot What Rain Looks Like” by the multi-talented @laceyrco, in The Bulb Region.
bulbregion.com/I-Forgot-What…