Adolescence wasn’t that big a dealit was the apocryphal apocalypsethe big bang that wasn’t It was the hot rush of hope and thelingering melancholy of schoolfingering everything that moves It was turning to my first love to saythe rest of my life is a long timeI don’t want to spend it with you William Breden…
I have this dream. This dream where everything goes wrong. It all goes wrong and my teeth fall out. They crack and break and fall out of my head. I’ll be talking to someone – my girlfriend, my mom, my dentist – and it starts. I’m talking and then I’m watching my teeth fall out….
[ 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…
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…
“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…
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,…
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…
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 30 of Neon features the work of Michelle Reale, Rich Boucher, Michael Spring, Alicia Hilton, Sophie Mackintosh, JR Fenn, Jeffrey H MacLachlan, Megan Kellerman, Howie Good, and MC. The photographer for this issue is Matthew Basham. Neon is free to read online,…
Well wait just a minute, you told me.I didn’t come all this way for nothing, you know.It was Saturday night after work.You had crawled out from between the cushions in the backseat of my car. I know, I’m sorry for your trouble.I have to get home. My hand shook over the key.Your head extended out…
1. I am a cold bitch but I’m hot as all get out. I shave everything and that means everything: no landing strip. You didn’t believe me and that was your loss. You unlock the car doors with a click and wait for me to rid you of my presence. On the way home you…