A portrait of so many things–neighborhood quirks, neighborhood dogs, people and animals who misunderstand one another but still try anyway–Josh Shepard screams out "Runnin' Down a Dream" • Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers from the garage.
In Volume 27!
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Inhale deep to "Smoke on the Water" • Deep Purple by Kathryn Kysar and feel the wild desperation between girlhood and what we believe we should become when we leave it. 💜
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Are you painfully uncool? Have you developed a delayed angsty streak? Colin Brightwell proves you (we) are not alone in his piece "Undone - The Sweater Song" • Weezer
Listen in Volume 27.
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Lizzy Turner takes us stomping and clomping across hardwood floors, square dancing in perfect time with our protagonists, finding flow state under the fluorescent beer signs and jukebox turns. 👢
Read "Black Velvet" • Alannah Myles in Volume 27.
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Jeremy Mauser’s poem "Pumped Up Kicks" • Foster the People confronts the impact and legacy of gun violence in America, manifested bodily, personally, and open-eyed.
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@ca5eyj0's "Tiny Dancer" takes us into the operating room with small mercies between medical staff and patients. Sometimes, you just need Sir Elton John. ⚕️
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Certain things about music and friendship are hyper-ephemeral. Yet, somehow, also forever. How does that work? ✈️🎧
Read "By the Way" • Red Hot Chili Peppers by Chris Scott in Volume 27.
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Let’s get into Volume 27! First track is Innocent When You Dream • Tom Waits by @Henrick_AK. This piece takes us into the deep subconscious, and the shadows we find there—ones that haunt us with what could be. 🎪
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I’ve seen all kinds of wild stuff in my job over the years, but one of my favorite stories is the one I share today in @Major7Mag Short and sweet, hope you’ll give it a read!
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“You handed me a tissue and asked if I needed to go to the emergency room. I said I was fine. I wanted to show you that I was doing my therapy tasks.”
Davi Schweizer closes out Volume 26 with a piece so cold, it burns: "Winter Solstice" • Phoenix
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Devastating beauty from Amy Laessle-Morgan in Volume 26, Side B: "The Tracks of My Tears" • Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 💿
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“Here’s something. It will take the edge off.”
He tucks the pen into his coat pocket. “Mother’s Little Helper.” 💊
Erin Dawkins takes us into the exam room in "Mother's Little Helper" • The Rolling Stones. Read it in Vol. 26!
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“It has always been there, that sense that things are off. That there were forces at play that I couldn’t quite grasp.”
Get paranoid with Sheldon Birnie in "Ballad of a Thin Man" • Bob Dylan
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“I remember dancing my pants off and almost dancing off a beautiful stranger’s until she figured out I was lying about not speaking good English.”
@martinezfjulian 's piece "Night Fever" • Bee Gees is sick. 🔥🤒 Check it out in Vol. 26!
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