We are gathered here at twilight’s last gleaming to commemorate the 250th birthday of the United States of America, a danse macabre for a body politic that is filled with equal parts blood and embalming fluid. None of us knew the body when it was young, though some have argued that it was never young, that it was always old, dirty, and evil, but we have heard stories, rumors, tall tales, myths. The history of America is a folk almanac of figures and incidents–some heroic, others monstrous, fables of beasts and knights. Here at APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL, we have chosen to celebrate America’s big 2-5-0 by compiling our very own
AMERICAN BESTIARY
ESSAYS
- BREEDER DOCUMENT by Fletcher Peppers
- DIRGE FROM THE CALLIOPE by Justin Geoffrey
- DRAMATURGICAL BESTIARY FOR THUS ALWAYS UNTO TYRANTS and THE UNCLE FOR THE NEPHEW: CONSPIRACY, TRAGEDY, THE 18TH BRUMAIRE, AND THE KENNEDYS by Jacob Stovall
- THE TRICKSTER YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE WITH YOU by Ryan Shinkel
FICTION
- THE BOOTY GNAT by Alex Vuocolo
- THE CANDY MAN by Nick Mace
- THE GOOD MAN AND THE GOOD by Max Halper
- HOUND by Garrett Crowe
- INTOLERABLE ACTS by C.Hightower
- JACK-WHO-IS-KEVIN & KEVIN-WHO-IS-JACK by Alex Grass
- JUGGERNAUT by Johnny Hollywood
- THE MOCKING HORDE by Arbogast
- ONG'S HAT by Anna Krivolapova
- A PERFECT UNION by Ronald Plumber
- THE THING BEHIND THE FACE by Stephen Pimentel
- THREE ENTRIES FROM MAYES COUNTY, OKLAHOMA by Akira Damian Mirco Milski
- THE UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF DANBURY, WISCONSIN by James Callan
POETRY
- "BILLY THE KID" by Alexander Ross
- "THE CONSECRATION OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL POPPER" by Alec Ivan
- "JULY FOURTH ROUNDEL" by Tom Will
- THE MURDER BALLADS by Arbogast
- "NEW DISCOVERIES" by Bauhausfrau
- "WASHINGTON'S BODY" - "CHARLES MANSON" by Noam Hessler
- "WHEN THE PERVERTS CAME TO TOWN" by Kurt Newton
