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A hundred thousand moons ago,a great blue ox as tall as the starswould wander the sleeping expanse of Earth.Where her hooves would fall, poppies and tall grasswould grow. Life would flourish there in blessed huesof yellow and green, for this was the love of great Apis,Bull of Heaven, godmother ofContinue Reading

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Couldn’t see too well. It was my mother’s living room, I knew it was, and I was sleeping on the couch, and I got up. Couldn’t see hardly at all. It was a fog, but it was in my eyes. The walls didn’t have corners. Should have been a bigContinue Reading

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Waylon Bacon works in the Fulfillment Department of Powell’s Books, where he receives, pulls, and ships orders from both the store and the website. In addition, he is a cartoonist whose ongoing webcomic ‘Frownland’ has been featured in Bang! Magazine and on Boredpanda.com, as well as in the pages ofContinue Reading

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Olive Lewis is a writer and artist living in Portland and shelving books at Powell’s. They spend most of their time creating, reading, as well as dancing with fire in order to spark stagnation away and keep the light of new knowledge burning. Also, they’re a big ol’ fantasy nerd.Continue Reading

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The heat reverberates in Sister Annie’s mind; it shimmers like electric air above the grey-green sea. First the train passes through the city with its tenements, its air that stinks of refuse and sewage, passing row after row of brick house with slate roofs and chimney stacks that blur oneContinue Reading

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Many had complained to the Sheriff But those two were still mocking this whole rodeo. It was a strong gesture, an impassioned move. They were even rumored to say they loved one another. Many in the community just said they needed wives. But they just kept going “home” together toContinue Reading

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Two young cowboys are given a rope by their father. The father has decided they have not enough food to feed each other. Only two of them can live, not three. But it’s not a father’s right to choose. He left a rope in their room. They had two bedsContinue Reading

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A defunct suburban holdout, condemned to demolition, which had thrived as our greatest embodiment of the American Dream, was continually terrorized by a roguish group of little cowboys. Crimes of the little cowboys include, and are not limited to the following: snot-nosing; cruel indecency; public drunkenness; father-murder. Approaches to exterminatingContinue Reading

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Oaktea has always been in love with every aspect of a book–from the design to its contents, everything contributes to the experience. She started making comics for the all-in-one art and words combination, and eventually started working in bookstores to feed her voracious habit, as well as her love andContinue Reading

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“So what do you do for a living?” “You could say I’m in law enforcement.” “Like a deputy? A sheriff? Do you carry a gun? Can I see your badge?” “Hold up, little darling. It’s nothing like that. You know the wanted posters?” “Like the ones they have at theContinue Reading