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There is a great chain of connection between the smaller shows and larger ones in my community. Each has its logistical headaches. It is art and commerce. But what is created at these events is more important than the events themselves. Anything for a Weird Life: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...

All its limbs are wrong, its body warped all to hell, its edges distorted and blurry like a half-forgotten memory. LOCKED UP by @iamchrisscott.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Scott_Locked

we had nothing to do but spin and spin again HILMA by Ursula Carroll www.bruisermag.com/carroll_hilma

It rises out its own filth, blood-rust pond scum and clumps of brass dust. It begins again its great work. FURTHERMORE, THIS SADNESS MUST BE DESTROYED, five poems by Will A www.bruisermag.com/A_Furthermore2

“Probably, Ohio” is a collection full of paradoxes. Though it is nihilistic, cracks of light shine through and leap off the page. It is a gift to see the good in the bad and imbue hopeless disaster with mystical divinity. J. Draper on "Probably, Ohio" by Cameron Mays: www.bruisermag.com/mays_ohio

I was blessed with depression from a very early age, allowing me a rich interior life. I was dealt red hair and freckles. These factoids are my essence. OH NO, I'M ODD AGAIN: Eric Boyd in conversation with Sam Farhi, author of THE SAPSUCKERS: www.bruisermag.com/boyd_farhi

The day after shows, I would go around Baltimore and take home the flyers for the shows. Someone at MICA got wind of the pile and asked if they could have it. I said, “sure.” @timkabara.bsky.social's TALES FROM THE ARCHIVE: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...

I once asked mom why if dad spends so much money on horses why don’t we have any horses HORSES by Ruth Fuller www.bruisermag.com/Fuller_Horses

The limbs of the fighters move like a bundle of mating snakes. DIRTY by Mary Sfaelos Klein www.bruisermag.com/Klein_Dirty

BRUISER REVIEW Jordan Ranft on Robert Fromberg's "crisp little ride" of an epistolary novel. Yeah, the cover is bad. The guts are good: www.bruisermag.com/fromberg_merv

i drink NIGHTSHADE by Rob Kempton www.bruisermag.com/Kempton_Nightshade

Basically? I was getting in the van. The plan was to go to DC to see Fugazi and then… go play another show? I wasn’t totally sure of the specifics, but I was down. Duh. @timkabara.bsky.social's SCENE REPORT: FUGAZI AT THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT, 08.07.93: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...

We shot Lamb’s Navy rum, smoked and played the Upsetters, loud, in a stark flat on a naked Christmas — "Christmas With My Father" by Angel Warwick: www.bruisermag.com/warwick_chri...

“It’s a new kind of war.” LITTLE SAHARA BLUES by Garin Cycholl www.bruisermag.com/cycholl_sahara

Yes, it is true! I’m just like everyone else and I’m doing a horror movie round up in October because it’s easy and dangling in front of my face like a carrot! I’m an unoriginal cop out that can’t resist herself!!! Sarah's October B-Log: www.bruisermag.com/sarahblog_oc...

“I remember that night. The air tasted like cold dirt and forgotten promises.” Steve Gergely reviews @mallorysmart.bsky.social’s new collection of stories, THE BOOK OF DAVID www.bruisermag.com/GergleySmartDavid

i’m reminded in times like these of just how much i know. GET THIS! by John Crawford www.bruisermag.com/crawford_get...

But I goofed up. Spaced. Did not choose my extremely overpriced contractually obligated CD on time. And so Pearl Jam’s 10 arrived in the mail, the CD of the month. Or whatever. And I was on the hook to pay for it. Lame. Tim's eulogy for Columbia House: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...

we barely made it through the warehouse doors so thick and clotted was the costume blood DREAM BLUNT ROTATION: ALL MY DEAD FRIENDS @ridebikeseatspuds.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Biggs_Dream

Thrilled to have this piece about attic-dwellers and negative space nominated by @bruisermag.com for Best Small Fictions

Read an excerpt of ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU at the link below. If you like what you read, hit up the @bruisermag.com store or contact me directly to get a copy, for the⚡️electrifyingly⚡️low price of $10! www.bruisermag.com/bullion_elec...

I still delight in the radio. It can and should be free to hear for anyone with a transistor. When it works its charms on me, chance and the moment play into hearing a transmission, a letter received. @timkabara.bsky.social In Praise of IN THE PIT WITH IZZI BAVIS: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...

October in Baltimore… when Station North becomes home to some of the best emerging, low-budget, and DIY filmmaking you will see all year. @alexlei.bsky.social is in with your NEW/NEXT PREVIEW, with more to come all week long ↓ www.bruisermag.com/Lei_NNpreview

⚡️Out now from @bruisermag.com’s zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...

OKC! I’ll be signing copies of my books (including a new joint from @bruisermag.com) at The Floating Bookshop in OKC this Saturday, 9/26, from 2-4pm!

some very nice people said some very nice things about something I made that’s coming out next week ⚡️ @jonathanin2k.bsky.social @keersteemack.bsky.social @juscarts.com @bruisermag.com

“The seagull is a common and perhaps vulgar creature ruled by natural cycles, but also a symbol of the freedom glimpsed in the pursuit of romantic and artistic passions.” @ironhandslil.bsky.social on Twenty Somethings’ DIRTY BIRD, a Chekov rendition www.bruisermag.com/merrill_db

NEW ZINE BOND, the first collection from NYC/Maryland poet Michael Baruch Copies will be available at our Baltimore Book Festival reading this Sunday--online orders live now: shop.bruisermag.com/product/bond

Television really does make everything better. ESCAPING THE ALIENS by Emily Spacek www.bruisermag.com/spacek_aliens

My 1990s friends were quick to groan; “Dude, why buy the single? You already have that song!” My retort was swift. “But, dude… what about the B-sides?” This week @timkabara.bsky.social flips over a 1993 single from Baltimore's CANDY MACHINE: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...