[ 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…
Month: November 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….