Issue Six | Fall 2015
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Visual Art
Painter of the Invisiblework by DANIELA YOHANNES | essay by SHABAKA HUTCHINGS
“This art is a living catalyst for self-reflection, for intuition, for dealing with the invisible as an experienced phenomenon.”
Drawing the Psychodramawork by LEE BAXTER DAVIS | essay by ROBYN O'NEIL
"Lee Baxter Davis was my drawing professor in the 90’s at East Texas State University. He taught me how to draw air. DRAW AIR."
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Poly-Spamwork by CRISTINA DE MIDDEL
"I put a face behind the tale, but a contemporary one; a tale adapted to the dreams and frustrations of modern times."
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She, the Questionwork by CHITRA GANESH
"...my works feature women as protagonists in their own right, actively articulating their pasts and shaping their futures."
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Fiction
Butterby AFABWAJE KURIAN
"The word flew out of Jeffrey’s mouth—loud, red, and angry like the rest of him. It erupted with a force that must have come from the tittering and giggling swirling around him."
On the Murder of Nicola Teensmahby DAVID RICE
"When we’re finally able to make sense of the room’s interior, all we see is the boy drenched in blood, leaning on the long knife like a cane. "
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John and Mary and Jenny and Mikeby ELISE LIU
"So John and Mary walk into a bar. John’s neck is hunched like a headrest. With each step, Mary’s tights unravel into a huge pale hole behind her knee."
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Ashaby MORGAN JERKINS
"Asha was left on the ground in her living room, unable to pick herself up, and her cries reverberated throughout her stripped cottage."
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Features
Photo Box Vol. 3by KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED
"I was most interested in the images that seemed to echo or mimic one another..."
A/V Corner Vol. 3by VARIOUS
"A/V Corner: where your editors pluck bits of sound and film from public domain archives!"
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Bum in Suit Mistaken For Important Manan interview with JAYSON MUSSON | by KAYLA E.
"This life is short, and I’m an advocate of sloppy play versus well-intended doldrums."
Early Edition Vol. 4edited by KAYLA E. + WHIT TAYLOR
"Early Edition is not quite the comics section or the art section it's something in the middle..."
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DOCUMERICA Vol. 2edited by ABBY SUN
"The work...is tethered to this documentary tradition, which employs a somber aesthetic and the appearance or assumption of objective truth"
All of Them Witchescreated by KAYLA E. | edited by RL GOLDBERG
"...declares the aspirational female condition to be one in which women are able to provoke and desire..."
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Poetry
Two Poemsby JUSTIN WYMER
"Three thin friends were given spells to cast and I thought / again of you. A shoe / appeared..."
Two Poemsby TALIA LAVIN
"It’s April. I want to build up a dozen white columns and break them / again..."
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Logoramaby ADAM FITZGERALD
"Perhaps the race of tartar sauce ended with fish & chips. Perhaps Spartan “broom removal” spelt fate."
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Two Poemsby MARGARITA DELCHEVA
"The third time you microwave chicken, / it becomes non-chicken and is banished..."
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FILM & ANIMATION
Say Grace Before Drowningby NIKYATU JUSU
"After meeting her African Refugee mother for the first time in six years, 8 year old Hawa is forced to coexist with a woman teetering on the brink of insanity."
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„Have an Alright Day“by ELENOR KOPKA
"A short film about an alright day. "
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Germsby RACHEL MACLEAN
"Moving from a perfume to a bathroom cleaner commercial, she converses with a persuasive masked woman..."
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Nat. Brut Issue Six
Issue Six is our second in print, and features work by Cristina de Middel, Afabwaje Kurian, Chitra Ganesh, Jayson Musson, and more! Issue Six also comes with limited edition supplements: All of Them Witches, a 32-page risograph-printed comic re-interpreting 1950s Harvey Horror comics, plus volume four of our comics section, Early Edition!
