AND OF COURSE YOU END UP KISSING YOURSELF How it happened, or how I like to imagine it happens for most of us, was on account of a commercial. It’s about a group of regular people with giant noses, or rather, regular people with noses for heads. The former would mean enlarged noses in their […]
She has milkbowl hips and bones like harpoons. On a walk she’ll meander off to examine the manzanitas or bend suddenly to peer through someone’s mail slot. Her wandering isn’t cute or whimsical, though—her curiosity is guided like an animal’s is, you can tell, by some unnamable force in her underskin. You’re the butch […]
Vertical Air i. Calculate time from when light relents to clouds to when rain begins. Chaos stirs space, fixing points after moving in basins of attraction. Though my formulas define it, I think turbulence is confused. The dean called it sleight of hand. Not reading Lacan but the […]
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Travis Diehl is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. He edits the arts journal Prism of Reality. translated from : telephone series two: “Still Life With Drips At The Paralax Cafe” by Sean Sullivan
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Cliff Weber is 26 years-old and lives in Los Angeles. He has self-published three books and two chapbooks, which can be purchased on lulu.com and in select bookstores. His work has appeared in Adbusters, Out of Our, Beatdom, Bartleby Snopes, and Burningword, among others. He recently finished his first novel, “The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing”, and […]
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sean Sullivan received a BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2005, and an MFA from the University of California Irvine in 2009. Currently he is working interchangeably between drawing, painting and digital media. Recent public art projects include “Earth and Sky” a group installation at Los Angeles International airport. He has exhibited at […]
relevant scene starts at 2:59 and ends at 5:36 At the Cliffs by Christina Wood Martinez In the morning, they decided to go for coffee at the cliffs instead of eating in as they had planned. They felt uncomfortable sitting at the outdoor café table, though neither were sure why. The man assumed the […]