[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 24 of Neon features the work of Emily Darrell, Claudine R Moreau, LE Butler, Omar Metwally, Howie Good, Jonathan Greenhause, Tetman Callis, Noel Sloboda, Rachel Mehl, Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we publish a…
Tag: Issue Twenty-Four
Incident Reports: The Vanishing
Case File: No. 1 My husband was washing dishes,his hands in those yellow rubber gloves,the water running, a hum.I looked up to a sink full of soap,limp gloves on tiles. * Case File: No. 2 I scoured the woods on my ownafter 9-1-1 was reduced to a busy signal.Kept checking under the same log.Your shovel,…
Siberia
Eleven days after my husband died, he telephoned me at dawn. “I can barely hear you,” I said, sitting up in bed. “Somewhere in Siberia,” he whispered. His notebook was still on his side of the bed. I wrote in the half-light. The directions were incredibly complicated. I had to ask him to repeat himself…
The Year Our Children Left
This was the way our children left, in the year they left us behind. They got all–how shall we put it–self-righteous and accusatory, the way children can get when they come to understand that nearly everything they’ve been told is some form of a lie. They said to us, how dare you? How dare you…
Mr Lemming
I bite my tongue as the psychiatrist interviews Mr Lemming in the psychiatric ED status post suicide attempt number one: the sole survivor of his cult’s alleged mass suicide. He notes Mr Lemming’s family history, asks about recurring feelings of sadness or emptiness, psychiatric medication. Whom he lives with. What he does for a living. How much he drinks….