It was many years later, I was around 40 now and I was relaxing on my back porch and musing on the past. The band had run it’s course with some success but we were ahead of our time, misunderstood. As things usually go, bands that followed us, that copied our style made all the money. They looked better, had better management, had vocal coaches and hairdressers and fitness coaches and image coaches. Some of the creeps even went to college to learn how to be a rock star. It was laughable how they came on all tough but were some of the most pampered individuals on the planet. The people wanted lies, the people wanted things packaged in something simple they could understand. And that’s what they bought. But I couldn’t complain, we had a good 8 year run, made a little money before the usual things happened; the power struggles, ego-trips and substance abuse. I had to walk away from it all before I Cobain’d out.
Print & Digital Issues
Featuring: Issue 92, published October 2019, features works of poetry, flash fiction, short nonfiction, and photography by Melissa Benton Barker, Howard Brown, Mike Callaghan, Luanne Castle, Michael Cohen, Mark Crimmins, DAH, Darren C. Demaree, Edilson Afonso Ferreira, Hugh Findlay, Eric Forsbergh, Brandon French, Jeremiah Gilbert, Carlos Andrés Gómez, James Grabill, Zac Hall, Cordelia M. Hanemann, Danielle Hanson, Jana Harris, Ditta Baron Hoeber, J. Chad Kebrdle, Josef Krebs, Mary McGinnis, Marc Meierkort, Karla Linn Merrifield, Peter Justin Newall, Don Noel,Marlene Olin, Randy Osborne, Jose Oseguera, Andy Posner, M. Ann Reed, Paul Rousseau, Maya Salameh, Angela Santillo, Jake Sheff, Alan Sincic, Gary Singh, Charles Springer, Merideth M. Taylor, Stephen Curtis Wilson, Yvonne.