[ Download Digital Edition | Print Edition SOLD OUT ] Neon‘s 40th issue is filled with some seriously unsettling fiction, with stories revolving around horrors as diverse as giant spiders and drive-thru fast food joints. There’s also a selection of poetry and prose-poetry hybrids featuring errant next door neighbours, lurking swamp monsters, and a pill…
Tag: Issue Forty
The Lotus Eaters
The endocrines are absorbed by the altered receptors of the brain.Therefore the rodents start to cuddle. It is deeper than the sea, even if it’s a rodent’s brain.Though all mystery can be measured. There’s nothing in the body a surgeon’s knife can’t find. The subjects I’ve observed don’t even notice the needle anymore.We’ve put them…
Best of Drive-Thru
—Welcome to Large Burger. Where the burgers are large and the smiles are on the house. Can I take your order? —Do you have a chicken? —We offer a range of chicken options including our signature Ranch Wagon and Ultimate Chicken five-piece dinner. Chicken sandwiches are also available in nugget form, with a variety of…
He Asks Me to Call Him
daddyand I think what theactual fuck I am olderthan himand the hills so I straddle his lapto have words face onabout howhe might like to finda little girl about howI ama real womanand he whisperssay it so I hear myself say itwearilyand he whispersyou can do better than thatprincess with a hiss on the esswhich…
Bad Behaviour
It starts before your company holiday party, our first fancyinvitation on the fridge. You come in,with a thirty and a few snowflakeson your shoulder. I’m clappingunder my chin, in the kitchenby the ironing board. You kickthe door shut then twirlme to the counter where we crack beers, the iron hissing through teeth behind us then…