It seems only fitting that, among other things, the year 2020 should yield the analytical, not biblical, revelation regarding the occasion of mass extinction. As the eggheads at N have determined, every twenty-seven epochs (you know what, you do the math!) Fate hits the reset button on this humble orb we of the Holocene call […]
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Interview with Valentina Cano – Dennis Villelmi
Dennis Villelmi: Welcome to B.A.D. Press, Valentina. We’re happy to have you here to chat for a moment as we’ve seen some great things from you since you began carving your way onto the literary scene. How have you been lately? Valentina Cano: Thanks so much for having me virtually here to chat a bit. […]
Interview with Thom Mathews (Friday the 13th & Return of the Living Dead) – Dennis Villelmi
Dennis Villelmi: Welcome to The Bees Are Dead, Thom! I can’t begin to tell you how excited we are to talk with you this Friday the 13th. In the spirit of the occasion, I’d like to first ask if there are any interesting superstitions that you adhere to? Thom Mathews: I’m not very superstitious, BUT […]
2-STOREY WALK-UP — RICHARD-YVES SITOSKI
the town was 4th avenue-restless, thunder booming like god tossing in bed while sleeping off a bender. for three weeks the sun had been a junkie’s promise and the flat was a zeppelin crash. the flies were biblical. jess looked at matt with eyes that were poison ivy as she took his gun from the […]
LIBRARIES OF THE FUTURE — LINDA IMBLER
Once the bookshelves were overhead high, and the scent of the glue helped the print catch your eyes. Pupils are no longer seeing. Darkness forms from failing ink. The reflection of words is stopped. The need to track symbols gone. The transmission of ideas replaced, from the printed page, through wires curving and inserted […]
WHY TRY — HOWIE GOOD
To see the fire coming at you from five mile away, like a funeral cortege covered in red bite marks, was proof, if any of us needed it, that it’s not pleasant out there, that, in fact, it’s close to fucking awful, one moment after another teetering on the edge of calamity, and yet the […]
INTERVIEW WITH JILL SCHOELEN – DENNIS WILLIAMSON
Dennis Williamson: Welcome to The Bees Are Dead, Jill! You can’t begin to imagine how excited we are to have an icon of the genre such as yourself with us for this most unhallowed moment; it makes B.A.D. feel rather like, if you’ll forgive the allusion, a phantom stalking an opera house. I remember […]
NEGLECT — PAUL ROBERT MULLEN
mostly lying in manky rooms curtains drawn the weight of sea-side town choking decomposing shopfronts under midwinter heavens it’s too easy sometimes to give way to tears even the lake is fucked you say rusty shopping trolleys mouldy condoms squawking seagull staring at its own reflection […]
SINISTER SIGHTINGS — LINDA IMBLER
I was told, that in days of old, the old ones walked unseen. But Astor, demon king, and all the rest, have endured classification and kept havoc as their pledge. Cain, crushed under stones, and Judas on a tree, Nero choked by strings that betrayed him, his music not in tune with the human […]
POSTCARD FROM AMERICA — HOWIE GOOD
The smells of old cooking fires cling to their clothes and hair. I’ve been warned not to look too closely at their faces. “Let us in,” they beg. They swear for the ten thousandth time that they’re deserving. We like to think we’re like peace-loving Switzerland, just without all those cows and Alps, but […]