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Welcome to BareBack
May 2012: CONFUSION
Featured Fiction
Check out BareBack Magazine to read Poetry by Darren Simon, Rebecca Stone, Frank Bass, Neil Ellman, Jessica Tyner, Nadia Shammas, Sam Silva, and Eric Dittmar.
Therapy and Treatment: A collection of acrylics by South Korean artist Choi Yunnam explores beauty standards and the entrapments of femininity through surrealistic images and ultra-vivid colors.
When Eldon Butchwig’s wife Roma grows to the size of a department store window and can no longer ingest solid foods anymore, Eldon has to order take-out women to satisfy his feeding fetish, which sends Roma into hungry jealous rage. Read Hungry Woman.
An obsessive-compulsive psychiatric outpatient abducts a book-reviewer as recompense for wasting his time on an awful novel. Read Confining the Critic by Lyle Krump.
When Albert Overton, an editor at a publishing house, receives a mysterious manuscript containing every detail of his life he becomes convinced that he is a work of fiction, trapped in a book, created by an Imagination. Read Matryoshka by Walter Kirk.
Have a peek at some of our previously Featured Fiction in the ARCHIVES
Lizzie Rawling is growing up too fast. She knows there's something she wants, she just doesn't know exactly what it is. Not yet, anyway. Read Lizzie by Bud R. Berkich
Thought of the Month
Danni Zeigler is an American artist who uses animal bones to create abstract sculptures with the intention of implanting ideas in your mind through his titles. Essentially, his goal is to convince you what painted bones stuck together with super glue resemble. But it’s up to you to decide. Have a look at Leftovers.
BareBack News
Every month we will be showcasing a Featured Poet with his/her own page. Four to five poems, pic, and bio. If you would like to be a Featured Poet please submit using the guidelines, but in the subject box write "Featured Poet Submission".
It’s the day of her friend’s wedding when Rebecca gets an emergency phone call from one of her patients ~ Howie, a giant man with the mind of a five year old boy who thinks he has an evil Hobbit in his closet. Read Bearer of the Ring by Alexis St. James.
Looking into your own past doesn't always leave you with the answers you might expect, and sometimes it isn’t always the questions you ask, it’s the ones you don’t. Fire & Iris by Bob Kalkreuter.
Bullied by the kids at school, Tina Patterson turns to chat rooms to find friends, where she gets more than just acceptance and a warm welcome. She finds love. Only it’s not the kind of love her father will allow. Read MENTING by Lyle Krump.
This Month's Poetry
Featured Poet
Tony Mulas is a both a Canadian poet and the owner of a construction company. He began writing at age thirty-five after being inspired by the exhaled language of poets. Most of his poems are autobiographical and based on true life experiences. He writes from a place of pureness and honesty, evoking powerful images and a sensuous mood. While some people want to be materialistically wealthy, Tony wants to be rich in the written word. Nowadays, he often plays hooky from work, and when his mind is not in the gutter he pursues his love of poetry. Read the whimsical words of Tony Mulas.
Featured Artist
Keith Moul is a retired insurance manager currently living in the Pacific N.W. He alters an original photo with five priorities in mind, and seeks “realism,” but vibrancy in his photos JUST LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT
About Wishes:
Sometimes I wish I was a seagull just so I could drop shit on people's heads and not get in any trouble.
Drew Donaldson
Archive Poets
i-World
Donna Hawks
Generation whY
Chandler Feilding
One Day
Kim Risolo
Remembering Francisco
Jason Barry
Killer
Sandra Langer
Pornocupia
Howie Good
Write My Wrongs
Jacqueline Marie Applewhite
Gift
Brian Byne
Marie: wedding dream
Kevin Thornburgh
What Makes A Grown Man Cry
Kim Wilson
Read BareBack poets in the Archives
Previously Featured Artists
Eleanor Bennett is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph , The Guardian, BBC News Website and on the cover of books and magazines in the United States and Canada. Solid Structure is a selection of images focusing on biology and natural anatomy, bone structure, patterns, and fossils.
Tequila and an ex-girlfriend's best friend sounds like a good idea when you’re trying stir-up jealousy. The only problem with this B.F.F. is she’s more of a pisser than pissed off. Read Fire Hose by Noah Forrest.
Benjamin isn’t sure if they're real or part of his self-destructive, alcohol induced mania. The only thing he’s certain of is that they’re destroying his life, and stealing the last bit of sanity he has left. Read The Coons by Jacob Fons.
A young couple on their honeymoon receive a message from their future selves that changes their outlook ... but for better or for worse? Read Forever by Bobby Fox.
Featured Poets
Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz believes a poem should startle us out of our habitual patterns of thought and feeling. If a poem works right, it re-establishes new relationships among familiar objects and meanings and, in doing that, implicitly comments on and perhaps liberates us from the oppressive nature of their old relationships. Read poems by Howie Good
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