[ 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…
Month: November 2009
Baby Talk
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…
Steel Lattice in a High Voltage Place
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…
Sweeten
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…
Apocalypse Love Song
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…