Punk Monk Press/Magazine

(Note: Submissions are now CLOSED.) Yep, we're jumping on that bandwagon.  VU is planning its third print edition, and what's a more relevant theme than Covid?  We want more than poems. We want stories (flash, please.)  We want anecdotes. We want your rants, your regrets, your hopes. Photos and drawings (black and white, please) are also awesome.  All previously published pieces on VU will be considered, but we'd love content that directly addresses the pandemic.  Submit, as always to: visceraluterus@gmail.com.  Title email: COVID SUBMISSION: (Your name)  As always, paste the submission in the body of the email.  Stay Creative!  C💕

the rich kids      in the Golden Isles           adhered to a preppy look                  they shared a certain uniform                        solid colour shirts with an alligator                   khaki shorts from Duck Head            and their shoes had to be      Sebago Docksides I wasn’t rich --J Archer Avary

do you forget you have a heart, too latch and leech your way into lives, into fake happiness into hearts and cling there. like a gnat resting on a brain gnawing and buzzing poking and prodding like a spider without a web but instead a laced framework of friends forged by falsehoods and wide grins. people love you. don’t they. especially when you dig your dirty nails into their chests so you can get to the meat, the muscle and bone and heart, so you can hoard it for yourself as they smile with their eyes and drip slippery accolades. hooray—I can’t feel a thing what do you feel? -- Ryan  C Johnson

  It's here! My book is officially available via Thurston Howl Publications.  For the trailer, I wanted to create a commentary on how words like "slut" and "whore" are used- particularly in the media I grew up on.  Proud to say I edited it myself. ☺️ Thanks for watching!