FOR A LONG TIME THAT morning, the bear occupied herself with a cardboard box. Its walls were plushy and wet—soaked … 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.
Steve Gergely: “VanLife,” a flash fiction for Bad Survivalist
FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS I’ve been living out of my van. It’s not a lifestyle for everyone, but at … More
Robert Scotellaro: “A Sky Full of Crickets,” flash fiction triptych for Bad Survivalist
Hatching THEY ARE STRAPPED IN THEIR upside-down car for hours before the firemen, slicing through metal, free them. The deer … More
“Electrolysis,” a Bad Survivalist Short Short by Roger D’Agostin
THE FOLLICLES DIDN’T KNOW WHY they were slathered in foam, but 17 said, “Don’t complain, this is the longest we’ve … More
Bad Survivalist: Three Little Things by Leigh Chadwick
Skinny Kids Skinny kids touching light with their tongues pressed against the sun. Skinny kids with half their teeth gone. … More
“Dyin’ Lion”: A Bad Survivalist Work Fiction by Jonathan Bluebird Montgomery
I KNOW EVERYONE THINKS I’M just a cabdriver, but I also work at the zoo. They pay me to … More
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 measured.Anything over … 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
