[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 23 of Neon features the work of Arijit Sen, Matthew Dexter, Bob Thurber, Matthew Burnside, Daniel Powell, Ian Gammie, Patrick McGinty, and Sara Crowley. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we publish a small donation is appreciated. Published…
Tag: Issue Twenty-Three
Projectile Sounds
That year, I learned about the Doppler effect in physics class. What makes the noise of a speeding car seem a pitch lower after it’s sped by you. It was fall. My pimples were mostly gone but I was still fainting. I had not yet learned how to take the new refrigerator for granted–the choice…
Grief Triptych
In memory of Matt Kinnison Unnamed, unknown I am telling an unnamed, unknown someone, that I dreamt Ed was still alive. But I am telling the unnamed, unknown person this in a dream. Even as I sleep, I know that it’s complicated. I see Ed twisting in pain on the floor. Thin as a greyhound,…
Chairman Mao, in Retirement
To fill the day Chairman Mao goes on long walks. He buys a gold-tipped cane from a vendor stand, walks leaning heavily on it. He kicks at errant pieces of gravel, imagining the stones are the stars of the universe. He reads The Collected Works of Charles Dickens till he falls asleep in the study…
Maintenance
Rented one of those little one-bedroom apartments that make you wonder whether your luck will ever change. You know the type. Wake up the first morning and you’re lying in bed, running your fingernails across the wall. You do this every morning, thinking about what went wrong and whether your ex-boyfriend really loves you as…