Category: oubliette
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Concrete Mansion
Within the foyer of the Concrete Mansion were four doors, a mezzanine, and a distant chandelier. The walls, floor, and ceiling were bare concrete. The floor was scraped and worn, the walls darkened by water stains. The mezzanine, also concrete, ran a square frame around the foyer.
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A TIRADE AGAINST: Conor Hultman’s Dice-roll Haiku
“飛び込む jumped in 音 sound 古池や old pond 水の蛙 frogs of water “ is the latest collected work of Conor Hultman, un-author of the monumental DOE, and co-uneditor of the soon-to-be infamous “no rejections” Loser litmag.
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ghost poems for organ bank
you look at all the businesses and buildings. you really have no idea that one of these businesses is having a serious problem.
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Facelessness: on Treriksröset’s Untitled (2019)
Tommy Carlsson recorded his first release as Treriksröset, Sexregler, in 2002, a few weeks after the birth of his son. “All instruments as my cock,” according to the liner notes.
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O Cunus, My Cunus- An Imagined Interview with Christian McDonough
Christian McDonough is a twentysomething writer from Texas, a writer of one thousand poems, likely more, at this point. He has also written a novel, his first, coming out in just a few weeks. His Cunus.
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Royal Stars
Third, third. Third. I ask for the 3-hole, they play me leadoff. I asked for third. Third. Three. That’s three-three-three, number thirty-three. 0-3.
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A Chapter of Accidents- an Interview with Bothersome Fly Records
June 9th, 2026, I crouch on a street corner in downtown Manhattan to re-splint my broken finger. I am four days sick with an unidentified viral illness.
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The Scope of the Thing: On Glass Giant by Speculum Fight
There is a sense of physical enormity to the 1994 album Glass Giant, by Speculum Fight, that I’m not quite sure how to account for.
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Our Thanks to Electricity- a panegyric
the initiatory process of editing NTTN began in the lowest desert, dead middle of sweltering summer, the hottest in a month of Sundays.
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Do You Remember The Dead Bug Club?
I honestly pine for wet rot. I admit it. At this point, we’re so far past decay.
