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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 Bright Horses
“The Bright Horses” is a dystopian short story about a marshal returning a fugitive to Washington, D.C. Taking place on an Earth devastated by a cosmic event, the characters must sift through their grief for hope, justice, and connection. Will they find purpose in myth? Will they find it in laws and governments? Or does a desolated world leave us with nothing but hunger?
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The Bright Horses
“The Bright Horses” is a dystopian short story about a marshal returning a fugitive to Washington, D.C. Taking place on an Earth devastated by a cosmic event, the characters must sift through their grief for hope, justice, and connection. Will they find purpose in myth? Will they find it in laws and governments? Or does a desolated world leave us with nothing but hunger?
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When Marx Met Freud
This isn’t really a story of when Marx met Freud. They were contemporaries, or Freud was 27 when Marx died, but they never had a conversation.
On Working With Kids
Childhood is a surreal, terrifying, and beautiful concept. Children are real.
The Separation for Her Infirmity
Existential shenanigans in a maternity ward
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.
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.
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Latest Poetry
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,...
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
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.
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The Collection
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...
Learning To Let Go
The air was light and filled with the smell of wild roses. Two teenage girls with small bindis on...
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.
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