[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 34 of Neon features the work of Sam Frankl, Eliza Victoria, Lynn Hoffman, Tracey Iceton, Michael Frazer, Kate Folk, Heidi James, and Nancy Hightower. The cover photograph is by Andrew Shoemaker. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for…
Month: May 2013
Afterlives – Delores Haze (Lolita)
It was Lo in the morning? No.It was high in the morning, higherstill in the afternoon, chasing butterflies’reflections, the higher hire of his lowing. His ass in jail, he put a spin, spun a tailthat followed him right up his end.His story makes me pukenlaugh.He stole my this, he killed my thatWhat bull! That stupid,…
Where There’s Smoke
You’re eighteen and have just finished your first semester at an expensive liberal arts college in Vermont. You’re back in Minnesota for Christmas. Your parents are sixty miles away at the outlet mall, buying discounted Gap hoodies for your many cousins. You refused to go, claiming a sore throat. It’s twelve fifteen. You have just…
Elegy for the Lost Minutes
The woman with the wheelchair-bound husbandis losing kindness in front of the elevators. We are standingin the car she has been waiting for for what seems like hours. We are thinking of inconsequential things – sandwich, cookies, coffee, weekend – clutching our wallets close to our chests,while the woman holds what’s left of her kindness…
The Points of the Kite
The points of the kite tilt to the groundTurn and turn, air supports and thenNeglectsAllows a collapse before collectingUp the wings and fragile framework, again.Tethered, it must land, it must returnWe watch, a small crowdSmoking cadged fags, mouths full of cheap ciderSwigged back, heads tipped up, Eyes narrowed, watching a sky the colour of washing…