APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL

low lives + high strangeness | open for general submissions | next special: AMERICAN BESTIARY (7/4/26) | MEAT PUPPETS by Hannah Smart (AVAILABLE NOW)

[APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL @APCON_MAG]

ANNOUNCING: AMERICAN BESTIARY 🇺🇸🦅🎆💀

"We are gathered here at twilight’s last gleaming to commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States of America..."

w/ guest editor @bradkelly
artwork: Robert Voyvodic

Deadline: June 14

https://t.co/fuEa9ru9rN

[Dustin Cole @itinerant_male]

DW Baker doesn't use language to report his imagination, he imagines with language
https://t.co/oPi90wbMh6

[D.W. Baker @lowermelody]

Three new linked forms, excerpted from my WIP, SOLARPROOF, out today in @APCON_MAG!

[Max Thrax @ThraxMaximilian]

“Dreaming
I turn loose my slackened eye,
until it registers—the grain—
until the texture leads
me out: lucid exit
from this skin…”

Widening the aperture with DW Baker

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“EIGHT MINUTES AFTER FIRST SIGHT” – “BREAKING GROUND ON NEW DERINKUYU” – “DREAMING BEYOND THIS HARDENED PLANE” - D.W. Baker

"Warning klaxons stab
the seconds mercilessly"

https://t.co/CIa9zS5zT4

[the parallax viewer 🇵🇸 @jkultra23]

submitted a story from a wip novel that portrays the depravity of settler-colonialist american exceptionalism in a post-apocalyptic hellscape

[daphne dhalgren @milchamiazrail]

I just sent in a nasty little story about baseball. I am now going to spend the remainder of my night watching baseball.

[Jeremiah Suit @JeremiahSuit]

@AHightowersight , also known as Dickie, joins us at hofART with a beautiful poem about orchids (absolutely no vaginal symbolism here...none at all). Dickie is one of the editors over at @APCON_MAG , and we spend a fair amount of time talking about how awesome ApCon is. If you're not hip to ApCon, yet, you're missing out. They're putting out some of the best stuff in the game, especially poetry, where each piece they publish just floors me. Of course, we discuss her favorite writers and poets, especially JG Ballard. Neither one of us really understands Houellebecq, but don't hate on us. We also talk about how friggin' young she looks despite her "advanced maternal age"...lol. No butt stuff this time, but we still have fun. Go to the stack! https://t.co/SYZAyy7Px8

[Dustin Cole @itinerant_male]

Stolen corporate identity, a 7 meter long infrasonic tube called John Holmes, audio weapon systems, raw reindeer meat soaked in vodka, a cryptic EKG chart -- all this and more in my essay on Finnish electronic music legends Pan Sonic, only in @APCON_MAG
https://t.co/7vy04PiDA2

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@FletcherPeppers No word limit on nonfiction subs for special presentations or general publication.

[Craig @abasketofcraig]

If you've ever attended a job interview in a bar, this story's for you.

https://t.co/TTyEZQS3kL

[lrad asmr @ apcon 🇭🇷~ @ripcitythug]

“There’s an opening? At the bar.”

The doorman looks him over again and then steps aside. Knox crosses. He holds the paper still. Held in two hands, a totem. The doorman shuts and bolts the door behind him.

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THIS CLUB IS PRIVATE - Craig Rodgers (@abasketofcraig)

"'We were here before any town ordinance and we will be here long after.'"

https://t.co/yONbfisQpF

[Oliver Land @xoliverlandx]

Thirteen days remain.

[Andrew Miller @AndyMiller1313]

My latest short story, THE STAMPEDE. Published by the good folks at @APCON_MAG https://t.co/heKGBVeS52

[蠱 Mèribel 𖤓 the 𖤓 Maid 蠱 @ROGOMELEC_SACER]

oh yeah. forgot to mention but check this poem i did out. time goes by too fast.

[lrad asmr @ apcon 🇭🇷~ @ripcitythug]

Coming up on the deadline for this in just about 2 WEEKS. Send us your submissions. Launch them into the sky with fireworks. Tie them to a cement block and drop it from a bridge. Bury them deep in the bowels of a septic tank. Shoot them with machine guns. It's AMERICAN BESTIARY.

[Plague Circus Press @Plague_Circus]

You are a mutant if you don't follow and read @itinerant_male and @AHightowersight

[Plague Circus Press @Plague_Circus]

I submitted to this, and so should you.

[thatsneate @thatsneate]

A fine piece on the late, great Mika Vainio and Pan Sonic by @itinerant_male at @APCON_MAG