[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 32 of Neon features the work of Julie deGarie, Ian Kappos, Annette Volfing, Jared Yates Sexton, Chas Holden, Laura Tansley, TA Seabrook, and William Breden. The photographer for this issue is Deanna Larsen. Neon is free to read online, and costs just…
Year: 2012
Anglesey
We sleep with most of our clothes on: tired, drunk, unsure of undressing in front of each other again, but it’s too hot. I’m too hot. “You said you’d go through with this,” he says. I did say it. I agreed, because I’m convinced if he said jump, I’d land on my feet. But the…
How Alice Might Have Felt
I.In the lush yellow light before the storm,I ask you for your autograph. I’m jittery,a half-tame wolf bitch poised to boltacross the emptying bar. We talk–you over beer, me over whiskey, glassrocks-cold and skinned in water–until thunder heaves the pregnant air.You grasp the hem of my skirt, runyour fingers between skin and fabriclike a bee…
Lies We Believe About Ourselves
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…
Alone, Ypsilanti
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….
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 31
[ 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…
Let Me Show You
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
“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…
A Pound of Protein
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,…
What We Could Not Save
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…