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Today, after 6 print issues and hundreds of online articles, Soft Punk is going to be closing its doors. Our mission has always been to provide a platform for exciting, challenging work, and it's been an honor to work with such talented writers and artists to make that happen.
“I watched Fredy. He must’ve been in his forties. Face lined and weathered, but bright, youthful eyes. I wondered when the last time he cried was.”
Now online: “Fredy from the Bar,” a short story by Sara Luzuriaga.
softpunkmag.com/fiction/fred…
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‘After Seventeen Years, A Reunion’ ⚡️
Brand new short story by Jakob Guanzon 🧷 live now on the website.
softpunkmag.com/fiction/afte…
“One cup of coffee and eighteen sugar cubes are served. The friends embrace. Less an impact than a friction.”
Now online from Issue 5: "After Seventeen Years, a Reunion" by Jakob Guanzon
softpunkmag.com/fiction/afte…
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"Rosa was on her way out. All her bags were against the apartment door. She looked at the thermostat. A home is a home is a home is a home outside your own."
Now available from Issue 5: "Development," a short story by Frani O'Toole.
softpunkmag.com/fiction/deve…
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NEW short story from Rob Moody-Corbett: ‘Malady Head’ 🧷
“Spiders, thin and grey, cringed through the looser stones, a wan light catching on their brittle bodies, bellies no broader than the drip of a pen.”
softpunkmag.com/fiction/mala…
"My spring, too, is gone—
that is, until a teal-tufted bird
breezes by the window and quivers
midair."
Three new poems by @xadamg, now online!
softpunkmag.com/fiction/dipt…
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“The man stalked around our pyre, nudging stones, poking laths. ‘You shouldn’t be doing this,’ he said. ‘You shouldn’t be out here and you shouldn’t be doing this.’”
A new short story, now online: "Malady Head" by @MoodyCorbett
softpunkmag.com/fiction/mala…
“This painful and alluring moment captures something at the heart of the film, in which drinking is never consistently one thing or the other – good or bad, funny or tragic…”
‘Fun Destruction’ by Megan Nolan 🧷
softpunkmag.com/criticism/fu…
The Built Environment makes me Horny - @saintsoftness 🧷
“This essay is for the internet. On social media, when someone is being unduly (read: incessantly) horny, commentators often post a reply meme that is a photo of a dog with a bat.”
softpunkmag.com/criticism/th…
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“Plants didn't understand what people wanted. You could control them, sure, but force made it sound like they were aware of what was going on.”
Short story ‘Round Trip’, by Alida Dean. 🧷
softpunkmag.com/fiction/roun…
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“This is too tender for the Internet, this kind of kiss. This is the kind of horny, that with respect to the built environment, can be called ‘the erotic’ or maybe even ‘love’ of a sort.”
@saintsoftness on Bachelard, the internet space, and ruin.
softpunkmag.com/criticism/th…
‘The Bolt’ from Lily Meyer is our #SundayRead
“Mariel hove into view. Her freshly hennaed hair streamed over her shoulders. Her expression was a perfect blend of anger and fear.“
Read the full piece here: softpunkmag.com/fiction/the-…
"I wanted to be incomprehensible to my family, and that I became."
Now online: @johnpmerrick's essay on the impossibility of working-class achievement.
softpunkmag.com/essay/the-la…
“Aesthetic exhaustion, like political failure, stems from an inability to imagine other worlds, and the best Poussin paintings stand apart from us, aesthetic monads that assert their first principles in every brushstroke.”
@John__Phipps on Poussin.
softpunkmag.com/criticism/is…
"By the time I was sixteen, hiding my condition had become as easy as breathing; which was fine, until I met someone who made breathing difficult."
"Touched" by @claireodaktyl, winner of the 2021 Soft Punk Fiction Competition.
softpunkmag.com/fiction/touc…