[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 25 of Neon features the work of Lara S Williams, Emily Darrell, Tyler Bigney, AK Jackson, Dan Powell, Erika Suni, Howie Good, Sam Duda, Jennifer Hollie Bowles, and Garrett Ashley. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for a…
Month: February 2011
Silencer
He put a tube in her mouth like a cork to silence her. Down the hall, it only sounded like a little pop each time he murdered her. Trigger, hammer, bullet and like magic no sound came out. She took it out one night, her child hands grappling with his deadliness, and her parents watched…
Third Party, Fire & Theft
The car burns as I sleep fully reclined in the driver’s seat. The acrid plastic smoke wakes me. The smell of burning dolls. A crowd clatters out from the cliff top café next to the tourist car park, the cook banging a thick fist on the driver side window. The smoke curls its heavy weather…
Objects in the Gas
It was a Monday when my mother asphyxiated herself in our 1988 Camero, locked behind the electric garage doors that never worked when it frosted. She had three things with her: a banana skin, her wedding veil and my dad’s wristwatch. She had pulled the pin at exactly three thirty to offer us the comfort…
Eager Platinum Hands
Chaaya is everygirl, she wants her arms removed immediately. For when the chief surgeon engineer gives her better-quality arms she will play better, faster, throw the ball higher than the other little girls and make the baseball team when she finds high school in America. Her mother does not approve; she wants a complete daughter…