[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 26 of Neon features the work of Grant Loveys, Gregory Dunn, LE Butler, Amy Schreibman Walter, Ashley Maser, Nemone Thornes, and CJ Opperthauser. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for a physical copy. Each issue is 40 pages,…
Tag: Issue Twenty-Six
A Thousand Dead Blackbirds Fall from the Sky
They say it might have been lightning, maybe hail. It might have been fireworkson New Year’s Eve, drunken truckers boot-snuffing the smouldering matches.Somehow, they all died. A quick airborne heart-stop–engines turned off. Wind plucked feathers from wings twisting maniacally, marionettes cut loose from their strings–some skyward cemetery gutted open, raining onto cars, small thuds on…
Torque
A dishevelled man placed his palmon my son’s head and said“Hello, Mason.”We were on the number 8 bus.We had never seen this man before.The sky was the exact greyof the seats we were sitting on. My son looked up at meand I could see a white-hot wireglowing behind his eyes.I said “He must have heard…
Safe Keeping
The cold storage plant is right on the water. Acres of metal the colour of dried sage. Some sections are taller than others. From here it looks like giant boxes plonked down next to each other, but when you get up close you can see it’s all joined. The land slopes sharply upwards from the…