elliot alpern

Founding editor @nocontactmag 🌶 Print fiction editor Issue 58 @columbia_journal. Contributing editor @StoryLitMag. He/him/yinz 🛸

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"It’s 1 a.m. My son comes into my room, tells me he can’t sleep. 

I go, “Why can’t you sleep?”

He shrugs, “I don’t know. Something’s wrong with my brain.”

“What part of your brain?”

He points to a place on his brain."

Read "It's Yours" by @dt_robbins in NC: Closing Time

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

🖤🖤🖤 so many thanks to our friends at SLM

[Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag]

The final issue of @nocontactmag is here, edited by SLM reader @High_Fidelliot
and featuring work from SLM FAM @Dango_Ramen, @earthtokb, @mchangpoet, @CoCo4AfroPuffs. Thank you to No Contact for being a wonderful part of the literary world ❤️ https://t.co/TM0sYCwriA

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"ride the last few hours of the day"

Read Oz Leshem's "Hello Syndic Cowboy of my Dreams" in No Contact: Closing Time

https://t.co/RrcV0nyQUh

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"The concrete was grinding underneath our shifting feet, we were stopping and starting between the abandoned cartons of doner meat on the ground, shunting and spilling their slaw."

Read "Love on the Weekend" by @helloshanwolf

https://t.co/Bc7Djur25C

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@dt_robbins @nocontactmag 🖤🖤🖤 so grateful to have you in this issue D.T., such an evocative and moving piece

[Ori Fienberg @ArtfulHerring]

Feeling the pressure of summer in the final issue of No Contact Mag: thanks to @High_Fidelliot and @oozannesay for giving this bee trapped in my home, a home!

https://t.co/pGQk2SCohp

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@sboke @nocontactmag @NathanielJBerry was so pleased to have both these poems in Closing Time 🖤 they are wonderful

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@sboke @nocontactmag @NathanielJBerry 🖤🖤🖤 thank you Seth!

[Seth B @sboke]

So @High_Fidelliot and the @nocontactmag gang have put together a banger of a closing issue, an homage to Gauraa, the magazine's brilliant co-founder gone (way) too soon. I contributed poems about Marfa Texas, Carlsbad caves and where oxygen comes from...

https://t.co/KiuHNPNNvc

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@CoCo4AfroPuffs Thank you Ex 🖤🖤🖤

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@m_ixedbag 🖤🖤🖤

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

For the night crowd — Closing Time is here. I’m so proud of the work in this Issue. Thanks all, it’s been an honor

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Friends, No Contact: Closing Time is finally here!  

Please enjoy our fantastic, absolutely jam-packed last issue: https://t.co/vMwRawDuRi

Thank you all for everything.

Ben seeing you.

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@oozannesay @bloodandGauraa 🖤🖤 thank you Suzanne. Thank you SO much for your hard work on this issue, for everything you’ve done for NC

[Suzanne Richardson 🦾🦀🫀🖤 @oozannesay]

Today is @bloodandGauraa's birthday. Please enjoy our final issue, and celebrate with us. <3 <3 <3

Thanks to @NathanielJBerry and @High_Fidelliot for all the community, heart, love, art, and gorgeousness in this last issue. <3 <3 <3

https://t.co/yKBnBJFEIg

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@pdforan @nocontactmag 🖤🖤 thank you Pat

[elliot alpern @High_Fidelliot]

@mchangpoet h/t right back, love this poem 🥚

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@jemmawei meets us on the curb one last time.

Read CURBSIDE: “Monday Girl”

https://t.co/snHRocu7eb

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The final Three Things are Thrones, Slugs, and MORE.

@oozannesay on decay for @nocontactmag

https://t.co/9Jv2qPY7Jg

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@oozannesay sits down with Liza Stewart to discuss loons, isolation, and collapse.

Read "No Introduction" here: https://t.co/g5FSJYv5iq