[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 18 of Neon features the work of Sarah Hilary, Colin James, JC Miller, Cathal O’ Connell, Nick Orf, Elizabeth Eslami, Lida Broadhurst and Rhian Waller. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we publish a small donation is appreciated….
Month: February 2009
The Axeman
At night, the Axeman comes. He enters her apartment silently, and stands over her bed, watching her sleep. He listens to her snores, her whimpers and her sighs. When she gets up in the middle of the night to pee, he follows behind her and from the darkened hallway watches as she pulls her lacy…
The Derelict
From under the bridge she watched the patrol boat scud upstream, leaving on the river a long scar. She loathed these boats, sly in the water and always talking, loud-speakers squawking. She gathered spit and slugged it into the mud. It sat on top of the scummy layer of ice, glistening. Winter was a fist…
A Memory
I saw a car-wreck while crossing the Mojave Desert one oven-summer twilight before I was old. It shut down a four-lane highway, eastbound and west; twisted metal sank into sand between black shrubs and the Wile-E-Coyote orange rock backdrop. I was touring with a testosterone punk-band back then; tattooed Californians who only surfed at night….
Op Techs
Even our shoes muffled, we drift in herds down their streets, bodies flapping cloths of liquid blues and greens. We sink to feeding. Our voices slice the air above slabbed bread or meat, accustomed sights. We rejoice like gardeners in pride of pruning, in snips and rearranging, success and failure fenced by useless bones and…