Help me hold this angel down;you will notice that his wings are beating back very rapidly against the operating bench,almost as though he is aware that he will not live through this procedure. One almost regrets that this is necessary. Pay close attention to his lips and eyes as we work together; watch for dilationand…
She has six cuts on her abdomenand pelvis.It was smooth beforethe pod people camewith their one-eyed snake.Snip snip snip snip snipSNIP.Nasty beast alwayshungry.Sucked out the life seeds.Left behind the sad gas.Full and empty. Insomnia, my ugly twin,every night enters my bedroom.If I lock the doorshe tap dances on the roof.Grabs me by the handhot not…
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 29 of Neon features the work of Jack Hodil, Kenny Kruse, Dave Snyder, Ashley Fisher, Jennifer Marie Donahue, Fati Z Ahmed, Jennifer Strawson, Joshua Seigal, and Luisa Muradyan. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for a physical copy….
Airplane Steel body. A coffin in motion. Can be torn apart like a child’s toy. Acronym names. Machines. Cold blooded. I never thought I’d get on one again, step across the threshold to the rows of seats and feel that plastic air breathing on my neck. I look out the small window, press my forehead…
From your shower. Jesus, Tom, no one does that. Hangs themselves. No one does that. Tom hanging. Christ. From your shower they found you. The gardenias didn’t bloom that spring. My hands sore from all the weeding and I had to go see the baby elephant at the zoo without you. At the funeral, all…
You are very deep in an ocean. If you swimyou can live a full lifewhile drowning. You will get marriedto a bottlenose dolphinand wear a coral ring. You will give birthto yourself,but it will be so tinythat you lose itin the water. Your love will die firstand you will be alone.You are a brave little…
I can’t be certainBut I have a suspicionThat the woman I loveHas turned into a lizard.Last night in bedI brushed her thighAnd thought I feltA crinkled lizard’s hide.She had a crest instead of hair.A lizard’s tongue Darted from her mouth–It happened so quickly I barely spotted itBut I’m pretty sure it was there.I know it…
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 28 of Neon features the work of Kerrie O’Brien, Catherine Owen, Danica Green, Patrick Gabbard, Kirby Wright, Alanna Belak, Noel Sloboda, and Emily O’Neill. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for a physical copy. Each issue is 40…
I finally told Allison I loved her yesterday after they told us the world was going to end. I meant it. She told me she loved me too, but I think she just told me that because they told us the world was going to end. She hesitated a second too long between the syllables….
Tragic.The way she dug into him hard with her crampons, her ice pick,working her little cleat to numbness against some pointed part of his anatomy: rise & fall, rise & fall, rise &fall, as deep in that dark room from which old childrenhad once emerged, she felt only the T-bar of pharmaceutical barrenness pressing against…