Pink sunlight was scattered on Charlie’s dark wooden floor. It made him smile as he stepped into the room, and he sat down near the window. Outside the window was a church, really quite close to his house. It was a dirty looking white church, not too tall, with a humble looking steeple. It had
People who die in Floralill are first transported to the holy city of Thales. It is here that the body is bathed as if they were part of the ruling families, even if they were poor. This is achieved through using fresh water taken from the blessed river that flowed directly from the King’s Mountain
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The deer stood obscured by the woods at the edge of the highway, its great height made even more impressive by the sharp branches of antlers glinting under the moon. Next to the deer stood a chicken, shivering with roughed-up feathers, full of rain, with the stain of what looked like a drop of blood
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SPACE CADET A Special Feature Featuring RUBY MARA, Author & Performer & Demetri Kamps-Stewart, Editor & Producer One Day the Sun Will Explode and Leave Us in the Dark and Cold 100 trillion years ago, the sun’s supernova swallowed Earth in flames and humans scattered across the universe. I was born on
August 16, 2025 The Noir Collection Featuring LAUREN L HARRIS, Photographer & ELLE HART, Author “BREAK OF DAY” // Nikon D3300 “THIN FLOORS & TILE CEILINGS” // Nikon D3300 PIERCING COLD It comes with each passing day, the weather does, the way it comes, and each day of its passing I find myself passing away,
Pinhole Noir A Special Feature Photography by YVONNE CHRISTINE *Click or tap images for an expanded view YVONNE CHRISTINE is an artist working at the intersection of photography, materiality, and place. Through her pinhole photography, she explores the quiet tension between nature’s persistence and human presence. Her images are developed in-camera with traditional darkroom chemicals
July 25, 2025 The Noir Collection Featuring RAUL BARQUET, Photographer & CARESSA LAYNE, Author “DUCKS IN A ROW” SWOLLEN place your hand just here and feel the slam against my ribcage and in the hollow of my center as I reach and pull and come back with wisps between my fists and tell me what
July 19, 2025 The Noir Collection Featuring JACOB WICHERT, Photographer & SAVANNAH MANHATTAN, Author That Pretty California Neon Death The Venice West, at night, is now: Hevenic Bonus Nails and Lashes dim into: Ails and Ashes Slovenian Hair becomes: Slovenian Ha (!) Mel’s Diner miraculously remains Mel’s all twenty-four hours All seven
July 11, 2025 The Noir Collection Featuring KYLE SAHADEO, Photographer & HENRY MILLS, Author RECOLLECTION Thought he was a mannequin melted by the window, I heard the off-duty firefighter say. Biggest record collection I’ve ever seen. Guy looked mummified in molasses. And I pictured Holiday, Mingus, Monk, all turning to ooze while the collector could
TEXAS IN MONOCHROME BY Stephen Hood FUJIFILM XT3 // 35mm FUJIFILM XT3 // 35mm FUJIFILM XT3 // 35mm STEPHEN HOOD has been documenting a disappearing way of life in the state of Texas for the past five years, visiting over 100 counties to date. He focuses on towns with declining populations and those left behind
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