Whole street’s screaming drunk for the duration of the weekend. Taking it in turns to vomit outside the pub. Kids smash empties on the road. There is an air of abandon here. Across the tracks the trash spills like lava down the embankment. The train rumbles by and hardly anyone glances out the carriage. They…
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 21 of Neon features the work of P Edward Cunningham, Robert S King, Kate Wyer, Kirsty Logan, Sean Patrick Conlon, Michael Spring, Sonia Hendy-Isaac, Angela Parker, Gavin Broom, and Jason Irwin. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we…
They look up and gurgle and coo. They are plump and wide-eyed and smiley. They stare at the bubbles that float by. They are hypnotised by the mobile that plays the Brahms Lullaby. They sleep deeply, dreaming of . . . what? The struggle to get here? The months trapped in the warm liquid? The…
There’s a place I stand in the woods with tree-lined eyes. I stand there sometimes below several high steel bodies. Electrical towers humming–six arms and long cords attaching like long thin sperm poised to eat each other’s ends. The towers need these bonds. It’s their kissing and talking. When humans want to communicate they just…
Almost sternly, disapprovingly he was saying it’s so important to vote, you really owe it to all the women who struggled so that you could, you owe it to yourself. And although she didn’t want to shatter this little world they’d created, this fort with walls of misspelled menus, this moat of black coffee, there…
Through a hole in the roofI watched the end of the world.It was beautiful, nothing at allthe way its portrayed in books or movies. I thought of calling you, but figured you were busy taking a bath, filing your nails or dead, like most everyone else. I felt sad, remembering our encounter at the shoe…
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 20 of Neon features the work of Jonathan Greenhause, CL Bledsoe, Howie Good, Christopher James, Donna Burgess, Stevie Blue, Daniel Uncapher, and Jenn Clarke, as well as photo-illustrations by Matina Stamatakis. Neon is free to read. If you enjoy the work we…
In time I’ve had five babies. The first one was boneless and meatless; it was a puggish fold of skin, and I would throw it on the ground in disgust where it would puddle up and gurgle little flatulent gusps that were almost cute but stank like dank pot. Within a few days, having accidently…
“Fire Flowers” first appeared in Rattle In Japanese, the word for “office” is a character composingtwo smaller characters meaning “enclosed space”and “slumping corpse”. Outside, a soft rain’s falling on what was once the corner delibut is now an immense pileof pipes and bricks, chips of cement, and crumpled menus.I used to eat there with my…
A story begins at the point where two characters meet. If I put Adam in a garden by himself we don’t have a tale. Adam stares into space drumming his fingers. He doesn’t even think about anything because he has nothing interesting to think about. Now if I put Adam into a garden with Eve…