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Underrepresented Creatives
At this time, we’d like to invite artists and writers who are passionate about social reform to consider submitting their work to The New Absurdist, and as always we will do our best to elevate these underrepresented voices on our platform
Rock, Paper, Cinema
A surreal noir.
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Rock, Paper, Cinema
A surreal noir.
Latest Editor’s Picks
The Forest of Ink & Skin
This essay addresses ideas around eco-storytelling & neurodiversity, while reflecting upon an immersive performance the author co-created in Tartu, Estonia in 2024, and tells the tale of a woman who must absolve her sins by tattooing the trunks of every tree in a forest.
The Annotated Kitab al-Azif
A queer Lovecraftian love story
Coffee Love and Curly Fries
Through a spiraling structure and stream of consciousness-style prose, a teenage boy grapples with his understanding of masculinity, love, and himself.
The Growth of a Nation
A speech on the greatest threat facing our country.
Mudman
Mudman follows a young man temporarily called Mickey attempting to escape his past and identity. But the past has a way of catching up, and in Mickey’s case, it may be particularly muddy…
That Old Serpent
In this satirical, post-industrial twist on the classic “Faustian bargain”, a young voice actor struggles to get her career off the ground while her missing boyfriend, a slow-witted careerist, unexpectedly lands a job buying souls for the Devil.
A Kinder, Gentler Impaler
Substance is immaterial. Vlad the Impaler, aka Dracula, seeks an image makeover that appeals to mainstream society.
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Latest Poetry
From The Void
Ominous & surreal.
Fragment From F****’S Recovered Notebook On The Activities Of Northwestern Inhabitants
Using musicality and tone to explore the pacific northwest.
dropping a load on abbey road
abbey road changed the beatles, and the beatles changed the world, so if I change abbey road…i change the world
Temps Retrouvés
Who says No second spring?
The weeds still bloom
A quiet yet powerful meditation on forbidden love.
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On the deconstruction of self and the tension that arises between being seen vs not seen.
Perspectives on Hollywood
Two unusual Hollywood show business perspectives.
they should probably make better angels
A juxtaposition of childhood innocence and existential yearning for divine transformation.
Swimming Hole
Elinor’s poems explore life through sound and circumstances.
Rita Thought
She was a cow.
Labels for Sale
An acknowledgement to my dear friend, because of whom I had learnt that being tagged as a helicopter would be better than being unlabelled.
Fingers
This woman’s an easy glove, my lord, she goes off and on at pleasure.
–Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well (Act 5, Scene 3)
Frozen Too
skips off my granddaughter’s tongue like juice, born too late for Frozen, she knows only a bit of theater dancing in an almost empty multi-plex with all the family
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The Collection
Mary Oliver’s ‘Her Grave’ and the Bittersweet Joy of DogsÂ
Grief, in these days where the sun is low and white, hits like the snow tires of a heavy Ford...
What I Learned From Seven Weeks Without My Headphones
I’ve always been the type of person to have a constant lull of music, always playing from...
Vulnerability in the Time of Indifference
The kids are afraid of feeling. They, for whatever reason, have an aversion to showing any sign of...
In Defense of Wendy Cope, Gary Soto, Roisin Kelly, etc.
Writers are dearly in love with oranges. They’ve found metaphors in bits and peels, even in stems...
I Walked Through the Midnight Library and Saw the TV Glow
I was pretty active on Letterboxd last year. If you’re unfamiliar, Letterboxd is a social...
In India, English Is Not Just A Language
My youngest brother, Adi, was yet again on his way to a corner store to buy some daily supplies...
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