23 May 2013

On the Verge of Madness

On the Verge of Madness
by Octopus Brothel



New music video from everyone's favorite band outta Hollywood!

08 May 2013

Forthcoming Short Story to be Published in Issue 5 of WHOLE BEAST RAG

I'm proud to say that I will have another piece of short fiction published in CHTHONIC, the fifth issue of Whole Beast Rag. I have to admit it's refreshing to have found a pair of talented editors and publishers (which is a shout-out to Grace Littlefield and Katherine Hargreaves) who feel my work has a place in their magazine.

Have I mentioned that you should take a look at Whole Beast Rag? Or maybe if you don't believe me, you'll believe the hype.

In any case, here's a preview of CHTHONIC, as well as a preview of "Bottle Cap Theory", which will be published therein:

 

CHTHONIC - JUNE 1
[This issue] will serve as the documenting of depths and vices both individual and collective. Derived from the Greek chthonios, "in, under, or beneath the earth," the chthonic expresses the desire to expose the underbelly of our beings and ideas. It is about examining the raw impulse, its presumed repression, and its rebirth. 

BOTTLE CAP THEORY
by Steven T. Bramble

Then the hydrogen bomb exploded! And I don’t have to tell you that the capitalist bastards were caught with their pants quite down around their pale little ankles, having not really come to terms with their souls and shit like that on account of all their monies. And plus there was Irene H. Ronstadt, who was getting fed nearly science-fiction-like commercial messages about vehicular homicide and Jolly Khadafy Goat Samwiches while sitting in a well-earned blue nylon recliner, and she didn’t have a clue what the TV was blathering about because she was two days away from turning a hundred years old when fusion occurred and the thermonuclear sprinklerheads went shik-shik-shik-shik-shik-shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiik! Oh God—the 1940s horror—and it was always a mystery of the universe why Colonel O’Mannon found it necessary to bend over to look for the bottle cap he’d just dislodged from the top of his beer bottle, the same bottle cap from a Coke that was recycled from seventy-seven years ago which caused a horrible smoke to belch from Anne de Witt’s Electrolux Model 30 vacuum cleaner in 1952 when it got jammed in the drive train. The colonel’s large trapezoidal posterior made accidental contact with the arcane lever which sent the electron current to the mechanism that lit up and shrieked, “Launch, launch, launch!” and subsequently sent him through fifteen years of psychological therapy just to come to terms with it. Oh yeah, great stuff. You can actually see the mushroom cloud from two states over because most of the land in Middle America got shaved flat for the Go-Kart track...

Read the rest on June 1st in WHOLE BEAST RAG.