Sober Again

                           © Miguel Angel Ferreiros

She sings

"Don’t be so reckless"

And at the top of her

Wet soggy shirt

Her old

Pancake

Boob falls out

I leant her 30 cents for the

Pay phone.

She put the money

In the phone,

Hangs up

Moves to the other side of the room

And puts the money in her

Pink dressing gown pocket.

She comes and sits back down on the

Couch and we watch Australian idol

People drink coffee and the pay phone never rings.

-by Ben John Smith

Ben John Smith is the editor of www.horrorsleazetrash.com and lives in Melbourne Australia with his wife and two cats. He is expecting his first child in May and couldn't be more excited.

Painting Courtesy: Miguel Angel Ferreiros

Miguel Angel Ferreiros was born in 1960 and studied in Estudia en Estímulo de Bellas Artes, M.E.E.B.A. ( mutual egresados de Bellas Artes), Argentina. In Chile he studied in La Universidad Católica. His paintings have been showcased since 1980 to the present in galleries and cultural centers. In Recent years, he has been working on Tango and Erotica in Buenos Aires.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Swadesh Misra

Swadesh Misra is a photographer, writer, traveler and an artist. He loves music, nature, divinity, dreams, country, hiking and nothing more. He believes in miracles.

Happiness is Hard

                                    © Janne Karlsson

I want to write but I’m

Too damn happy.

Sure, I’m depressed and

I have a shit job and

I haven’t seen a payrise

Since before we all saw

Kim Kardashian’s cunt

But I’m happy,
And it’s hard

I need to be able to write

Without the dove-shit white

Page gradually turning black

I’ve no way to let the

Beast out.  The madness out.

My condition will remain caged,

Locked up and prowling

Inside of me, eating

Whatever’s left of my soul 

-by David Louden

Belfast native David Louden is the author of the roman á clef neo-beat novels Lost Angeles, Bone Idol [bohn ahyd-l] and the novella-short story hybrid White Mexicans chronicling the life of his alter-ego Doug Morgan.  His major influences in literature have been cited as Charles Bukowski, John Fante, William S. Burroughs and Brendan Behan. At present Louden is developing a Noir project for television set in Belfast which he hopes will go into pre-production within the year.

Art Courtesy: Janne Karlsson

Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

GUIDED BY REMOTE

the hands are claws,

oyster-cloying genitals of beasts

star-bound.

we are wards of space

like rock’n roll

bound for the unconscious-

destroyers of practical

management.

the hands melt down,

physics scowl,

dreams, molten lava

and music-

given you got

tablature,

can’t match Resurrection or

prepubescent hard-ons, amongst

the awkward dust of the

Tonka truck.        

-by Jay Passer

Jay Passer's work has appeared in print and online since 1988. His most recent chapbook, FLOWER OMELETTE (also including the work of Misti Rainwater-Lites) is available through Lulu. Passer lives and works in San Francisco, the city of his birth.

Painting Courtesy: David Balilty

David Balilty is an Israeli artist with North African roots. He was born in Jerusalem in 1971 to a family of artists and musicians. In his most recent work, David has combined three mediums of  visual artistic experience for his abstract painting.

                                                                                                

Karlsson's Korner: Breakfast at Tiffany's

                                         © Janne Karlsson

                                     Janne Karlsson is a wildly prolific Swedish illustrator and writer.

Kolkata Kolkata!!!

Photo Courtesy: Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee

Debdatta 'Riju' Mukherjee lives in Kolkata and barely survives his insufferable job as an IT professional through poetry, photography and whiskey.

Winter Coverage

The night before the aftermath

I had flurries of my own.

Tasty juices from that labia,

those warm drips

thawing my crave

to rip your flesh with the

tip of my tongue.

The cold winds, howled last night

an extent number of frozen granules

collected in snow drifts,

exhausted shovel fulls.

The erupt shuddering,

took us by storm.

Our calls for an end, go unheard.

Echoing throughout this globe,

of winter coverage.

-by Donald Armfield

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
Donald Armfield. When his minds decides to leak out words, they sometimes make interesting poems, stories, or whatever. He is a coffee fueled family man with a passion for reading and writing. He has been published by Rooster Republic, James Ward Kirk, Dynatox Ministries, and more to come.

Painting Courtesy: Ekaterina Grechani

Ekaterina Grechani  was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and graduated from Higher Arts Industry Mukhina Academy in Monumental Arts and  Painting. Her works are also found in private collections in Russia, Europe, and America.