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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
The Horny Castrato
An orphan whose testicles never dropped is adopted by nuns. He pursues a musical career in Austria and New York but only progresses so far.
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The Horny Castrato
An orphan whose testicles never dropped is adopted by nuns. He pursues a musical career in Austria and New York but only progresses so far.
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Jefferson Davis the Nth
Sublimation: to change the form, but not the essence. (Merriam Webster)
When we received this piece, we were told “Jefferson Davis the Nth” is a story about the sublimation of racism in the New South. It seemed a shame to have the word go to waste, so here it is presented to you along this short piece of fiction.
Lora Lee Broke Up With The Ocean
A short story about connections and romanticized ideas of people, about bodies, of water and otherwise, about understanding and what it consists of.
Detachment Takes All Of You
A man’s work life balance takes an interesting toll on his body.
A Perfect Storm
When weather reporter Ash Patel-Brown sets the unlikely precedent of making accurate weather predictions, people get confused and angry. Some are furious she’s breaking from an age old tradition, others are upset that they’ve made their lives more predictable and boring. Chaos ensues.
Are we still talking about the weather?
Analog
“Analog is a lyric essay that stems from two of my greatest sources of delight: my non-familial relationships and my mild obsession with recording things, often via photography. Broadly, it’s a meditation on how to cherish moments and people that bring me joy when everything is in constant flux.”
Dissecting Destacarse
Rene Camarillo is an East Los Angeles born and raised creative who produces textiles and handcrafted apparel with themes of immigrant realities, neglected labor, and critique on the social engagement of fast fashion industry practices.
Carousel
A story about how people come in and out of our lives in both significant and insignificant ways. We hear this story told from three perspectives: one of a bus driver, and both members of a young couple.
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Latest Poetry
3 Percocet Prescription Poems
As someone completely obsessed with puns, I write my poems using a unique method of homophonic translation which re-sounds existing texts based on each individual letter’s potential to make sound (or to be silent) within different contexts in the English language.
thoughts between the UCAS convention and sleep
A poem organising thoughts from the time I got way too stressed about choosing universities at the Choose-Your-University-Convention, and thus resorted to absurd and slightly self-deprecating humour to cope
little fish
18 feels more like 4 to me.
Jabberwock
A poem exploring the undertones of horror that exist if you really consider what the famous poem “The Jabberwocky,” is about.
Rain
A poem about the rain storm I witnessed in April: and how it made me remember the autumn rain in despair.
Pair of Lungs, The Policeman, Revise
Three poems, three characters, and the impact of their decisions.
Wave Good-bye to the Firemen
Trains, Buses, Trucks, all very exciting
when you’re a toddler
Wakix®
And haven’t we all suffered
from Excessive Daytime Sleepiness?
what waits in the basement
But who’s to keep a child from shutting the door…
Vaxed Out
I saw the best vaccines of my generation destroyed by madness.
In Spring
“In Spring” is a shahai. Shahai is a less familiar term than haiga – the traditional pairing of a haiku or senryu with a picture, which dates back to the times of early Japanese prints. Shahai is a haiga where the picture is a photographic image.
Star Juice
I like my writing to feel simultaneously cryptic and clear. You may not know exactly what I’m talking about but you know the emotions. You know how it feels.
a collection
I’ve been compiling many of my poems from old notebooks to create a book of life. Like a memoir but in poems. These are a few of the recent ones.
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The Collection
Learning To Let Go
The air was light and filled...
5 Palestinian Films to Watch
Supporting Palestinian creatives and content about culture, creativity, and personal and political experiences is an important way to elevate their voices and share their stories.
Something Stinks with Dove’s New #freethepits Campaign
For a #freethepits ad campaign that claims to be about not judging armpits, there’s not a single bushy armpit in the bunch.
Kipo: Biraciality and Blackness
A look at how Kipo functions as a multiracial, Black and Asian character in Netflix Original Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts.
The Menu: Beautiful Presentation… But Lacks Substance
“Let them eat McDonalds” says director, Mark Mylod, with one of Searchlight Picture’s newest star-studded original films, The Menu.
Breaking The English Haiku Beyond Syllables
Haikus can be so much more meaningful when they are unbound from their syllabic structure
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