[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 31 of Neon features the work of Cassandra de Alba, Gregory Heath, Jones Jones, Alexandra Smyth, Liz Bowen, Chloe N Clark, Alicia Hilton, Dan Grace, and Sophia Holtz. The photographer for this issue is Eleanor Leonne Bennett. Neon is free to read…
Tag: Issue Thirty-One
It Is Not True
“It Is Not True” first appeared in Anon It is not true,that you must reap as you sow.You may wake in a cold sweatwith a changed mind,scream into your garden,claw at the earthwith your bare handsand scrabble up those seeds. You have made your bedbut you do not have to lie in it.No one has…
Let Me Show You
I call in sick. But I’m not sick. For god’s sake don’t lose this job my wife says as she leaves. Someone needs to be in I say. A man has arranged to view our apartment. I clean. I stuff clothes into drawers. Throw toys into boxes. I vacuum and spray perfume. I try to…
A Pound of Protein
everyone I know is pretty fucked upwe thought, we hoped, you knowafter the upload, it’d all be finemeat gone, problems gonethe heart is just a pound of protein, we saidmuscle pumping blood, that’s all Dan Grace lives and works in Sheffield. He has work published or forthcoming in the Dark Mountain Journal, Earthlines, Modern Haiku,…
What We Could Not Save
A chick had fallen out of a branchonto the pavement: wrinkled, purplebody no longer than the palm of my hand. It had stubby knobs instead of wings, a blue film over the eyes, no feathersto speak of. I didn’t know birds were born naked as we are. A group of us kids gathered around, and…