[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 28 of Neon features the work of Kerrie O’Brien, Catherine Owen, Danica Green, Patrick Gabbard, Kirby Wright, Alanna Belak, Noel Sloboda, and Emily O’Neill. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for a physical copy. Each issue is 40…
Month: November 2011
An Ending
I finally told Allison I loved her yesterday after they told us the world was going to end. I meant it. She told me she loved me too, but I think she just told me that because they told us the world was going to end. She hesitated a second too long between the syllables….
The Climbing Accident
Tragic.The way she dug into him hard with her crampons, her ice pick,working her little cleat to numbness against some pointed part of his anatomy: rise & fall, rise & fall, rise &fall, as deep in that dark room from which old childrenhad once emerged, she felt only the T-bar of pharmaceutical barrenness pressing against…
Blurring
“Blurring” was previously published in The Cathach Take off your coat.Let it fall from you.I want to watch you do that.I’ve been thinking of you too much.Now, I want to make you real.Do that and come here,Take off yourself and hang it on me.Fall from yourself and don’t think.Stop talking.To name this momentIs to sap…
Ticking Clock
Why did I walk through that door? I think you know. I came to see you. I forget how it ended last night. I remember wine and laughing. We examined paintings by Dali. Then came news of the ticking clock, more of a lecture really. Did you go to bed happy? Sad? If it was…