[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 30 of Neon features the work of Michelle Reale, Rich Boucher, Michael Spring, Alicia Hilton, Sophie Mackintosh, JR Fenn, Jeffrey H MacLachlan, Megan Kellerman, Howie Good, and MC. The photographer for this issue is Matthew Basham. Neon is free to read online,…
Year: 2012
Saturday Night After Work
Well wait just a minute, you told me.I didn’t come all this way for nothing, you know.It was Saturday night after work.You had crawled out from between the cushions in the backseat of my car. I know, I’m sorry for your trouble.I have to get home. My hand shook over the key.Your head extended out…
Seek
1. I am a cold bitch but I’m hot as all get out. I shave everything and that means everything: no landing strip. You didn’t believe me and that was your loss. You unlock the car doors with a click and wait for me to rid you of my presence. On the way home you…
Scalpel, Sponge, Forceps
Help me hold this angel down;you will notice that his wings are beating back very rapidly against the operating bench,almost as though he is aware that he will not live through this procedure. One almost regrets that this is necessary. Pay close attention to his lips and eyes as we work together; watch for dilationand…
Insomnia, My Ugly Twin
She has six cuts on her abdomenand pelvis.It was smooth beforethe pod people camewith their one-eyed snake.Snip snip snip snip snipSNIP.Nasty beast alwayshungry.Sucked out the life seeds.Left behind the sad gas.Full and empty. Insomnia, my ugly twin,every night enters my bedroom.If I lock the doorshe tap dances on the roof.Grabs me by the handhot not…
Neon Literary Magazine Issue 29
[ Digital Edition Available on Request | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Issue 29 of Neon features the work of Jack Hodil, Kenny Kruse, Dave Snyder, Ashley Fisher, Jennifer Marie Donahue, Fati Z Ahmed, Jennifer Strawson, Joshua Seigal, and Luisa Muradyan. Neon is free to read online, and costs just £2.50 for a physical copy….
Crash & Fly
Airplane Steel body. A coffin in motion. Can be torn apart like a child’s toy. Acronym names. Machines. Cold blooded. I never thought I’d get on one again, step across the threshold to the rows of seats and feel that plastic air breathing on my neck. I look out the small window, press my forehead…
They Found You Hanging
From your shower. Jesus, Tom, no one does that. Hangs themselves. No one does that. Tom hanging. Christ. From your shower they found you. The gardenias didn’t bloom that spring. My hands sore from all the weeding and I had to go see the baby elephant at the zoo without you. At the funeral, all…
Living Under Water
You are very deep in an ocean. If you swimyou can live a full lifewhile drowning. You will get marriedto a bottlenose dolphinand wear a coral ring. You will give birthto yourself,but it will be so tinythat you lose itin the water. Your love will die firstand you will be alone.You are a brave little…
The Woman I Love
I can’t be certainBut I have a suspicionThat the woman I loveHas turned into a lizard.Last night in bedI brushed her thighAnd thought I feltA crinkled lizard’s hide.She had a crest instead of hair.A lizard’s tongue Darted from her mouth–It happened so quickly I barely spotted itBut I’m pretty sure it was there.I know it…