I KNOW EVERYONE THINKS I’M just a cabdriver, but I also work at the zoo. They pay me to … More
Category: Bad Survivalist
The couple that camps together gets mauled together. Never ask for directions but plead for outdoor sex? Every pool is safe for swimming. You are a bad survivalist; blaze your trail for HFR.
MM/DD/2020: Three Residuals from RESIDUE
These pieces are from the book Residue (forthcoming 05/01/2021), a text/image collaboration of dream-inspired fictions by DD that were prompted … More
“Criminal”: A Bad Survivalist Short Story by Meg Tuite
MY MOUTH BELONGED TO ME. “Your head is flat as a tape worm.” We waited in line to get … More
“while we wait for a vaccine,” a Bad Survivalist poem by Michele Popadich
i flock to the lawless. bleachmy hair purple & lob uneven bangs.finally, a stranger to wave to in the … More
Erin Lyndal Martin: “Mahat-Pad Meditation,” an exercise for Bad Survivalist
Today we are going to do the Mahat-Pad visualization from ancient times. Find a comfortable place to sit or … More
John B. Oldenborg: Three Poems for Bad Survivalist
Eco-TerroristAfter the Great Miami-Dade Snail Invasion of 1966 I.When there are no more breadcrumbsflocks of the elderly and seagulls … More
Joe Rupprecht: “dear nebula,” a poem for Bad Survivalist
1. swarms milk the sky’s geometry our imaginary cocoonsembrace dead pupassocketed with smallpearlescent eyes the dark spits a gnatfrom … More
“Lessons Unlearned”: A Bad Survivalist Poem by Colby McAdams
It’s true, in order to stay relevantI try to learn one new skill every yearNaturally, I must forget one … More
Bad Survivalist: “On Catfish,” a poem by Ryan Keeney
At nine, Dad taught me how to gut a catfish. Thick-skulled, even out of water they are survivors, known … More
Matthew Feinstein: Two Fraternity Poems for Bad Survivalist
Portrait of Pledge Being Left in the Middle of Nowhere on Shrooms It’s Fall. The Pledge Master has me … More
“Lunch Break”: A Bad Survivalist Short Story by Stephanie Austin
THE SKY OVER MY CHOSEN park bench is summer and painful. Fold my hands. Block out the kids running … More
Sara Quinn Rivara: “Instructions for Surviving the End of the World,” a hybrid piece for Bad Survivalist
x The road to Mouth Cemetery is gravel, hardly a road. Runs past a falling-down yellow farmhouse, three air … More
