It’s 11 o’clock at night and I’ve just gotten home to the floor-through apartment I share with two other comrades in Brooklyn. We live on the edge of Park Slope, where it’s still mostly Puerto Rican and where it’s impossible to find things we’d gotten used to in our old place in the rapidly gentrifying […]
Issue 90
Jay Duret: Honeydipping
For a brief period – the fall after I graduated from college – I worked for Crow Brothers Construction Co. In those days, Crow Brothers was the dominant septic cleaner in the area. Their bright red pumper trucks were constantly crisscrossing the suburbs, pumping out accumulated sludge and ooze. I got the job because the […]
Hillary Rea: Power
I’m standing in the middle of six lanes of traffic. Cars, buses and taxis aggressively trying to enter and exit the Holland Tunnel. TriBeCa no longer stood for the “Triangle Below Canal”. No. It was the “Triangle of Belligerent Cars”, with all of its points leading to my death. It is 100 degrees, I’m standing […]
Christopher Miller: ∞ is an Algorithm
Last September at the Burning Man festival’s closing ceremony, to test the efficacy of his newest leptites & programmable molecules (nanoids as some like to call them), Philosopher Jack Stone stood beneath the giant wooden effigy as it was consumed in what’s become the largest controlled outdoor burn on the planet. Human attendees, for various […]
Victoria Large: Calls
Paul didn’t know what the music was at first, only that it woke him up. His half-conscious mind had run through a few possibilities – something from a dream, or from his clock radio, customarily turned up a few notches too loud and tuned to a rock station, all the better to shock him back […]
Dina Guidubaldi: Press Repeat
I knew this place would exist someday, back when things the size of quarters came in boxes the size of shoes. So now there are manmade trash mountains, and now I emerge from my solar penthouse every sunset and watch the workers roving like machines over the heaps of bottles and cans. They do it […]