“Uh-oh. Looks like we’ve got a little trouble here.” THE WHIR OF THE DRILL by Jon Doughboy www.bruisermag.com/Doughboy_Whir
These scraps from your habitat betray your habits. You think they'll help it get to know you. HOMUNCULUS by Michael Baruch www.bruisermag.com/baruch_homunculus
After utility ceases, the things that remain become primarily archival in nature. Two poems by Christopher Blackman www.bruisermag.com/Blackman_TwoPoems
“Tortured by the omnipresent, oppressive sense that “the sun is right above us and the world is on fire” he proceeds with all the routine toil and mundanities…” @ironhandslil.bsky.social reports from Adult Film’s alt rock rendition of WOYZECK
By evening, the creature still refuses to resemble itself. They lead it to the edge of the field where the wind is kept in a gutter. Four micros by @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Sozdinler_FourMicros
"I watch this match and still get the same feeling in my stomach that I did when I was a kid staring at the cover art for the ZZ Top song Sleeping Bag." JR & Phil from Segunda Caida on a bloody JUNKYARD DEATHMATCH: www.bruisermag.com/segundacaida...
at the council meeting on the one-month anniversary of the first ostrich appearing Ms. Judy Brown eloquently articulated that the town had reached a “saturation point” and that emergency measures should now be considered necessary HISTORICITY MOMENT #21 by Daniel Joseph ↓
Enjoy these rare and strange visual art offerings from Steve Gergley, SHIPPING LABELS FOR CONTEMPORARY USE www.bruisermag.com/Gergley_Shipping
Building the potato cannon is the ritual before the ritual, and then you are standing in a field at some point holding a length of PVC pipe that is also a mouth, also a throat, and wants to say something very loud RITUALS by Jack Sovelove www.bruisermag.com/Sovelove_Rituals
how long have we been in the forest anyway? the eye wanders, topples over itself in densely coiled figure eights. ON A DAY LIKE TODAY by @buffalowing66.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Kempton_Today
‘Who's the money guy? Are you the money guy, or is somebody else the money guy?’ And I'm like, ‘I'm the little money guy. @brndnstrssng.bsky.social on the inaugural show from PRODUCE —with a cameo from Abel Ferrara: www.bruisermag.com/produce_vol1
‘Who's the money guy? Are you the money guy, or is somebody else the money guy?’ And I'm like, ‘I'm the little money guy. @brndnstrssng.bsky.social on the inaugural show from PRODUCE —with a cameo from Abel Ferrara: www.bruisermag.com/produce_vol1
His mind is full of noise and confused images from the day before. Marcelo drags his feet across the dirt. NATURAL POSSESSION OF THE COMMON TYPE by Maximiliano Guzmán www.bruisermag.com/Guzman_Natural
Writing’s a lot like selling a mirror online; no matter how you do it, there you are. Three Poems by @ewenglass.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Glass_ThreePoems2
“For Oklahoman filmmakers, this state is all they have, and they will wring every last drop of meaning and aesthetic choice from it.” Elijah Bigler reports from OKC at the DeadCenter Film Festival
Someone is knocking on the door. I want to reload the game. I want to unload the clip. GUN SURGERY by @kuragesyndrome.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Peyton_Gun
They knew they were watching a long match, that "something happened", but they didn't know. They were intrigued by the Mystery. An early-Covid era match performed for nobody, now watched together. This week Segunda Caida returns with Fujita vs. Shiozaki: www.bruisermag.com/segundacaida...
During the night, someone drew a big question mark in white chalk on the blacktop of the rail trail. I study it as if it were personally meant for me. Eight prose poems by Howie Good www.bruisermag.com/Good_ProsePoems12
"Pay up for a grand finale," he says. They obey. They always do. A QUARTET by Ricardo Sosa-Melo www.bruisermag.com/SosaMelo_Quartet
Is the sound really fucking good in this place, or is this band that good, or am I just not used to this shit? J. Billings pulls himself off the armchair and journeys to the Midwest Ohio punk scene for the BRUISER Dispatch. It’s FEAR AND [SELF] LOATHING IN DAYTON www.bruisermag.com/billings_day...
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J. Billings pulls himself off the armchair and journeys to the Midwest Ohio punk scene
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each house has an identical family inside me and three of my precocious children that I raised alone BURNING CITY by Ursula Carroll www.bruisermag.com/Carroll_City
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The assembly was filled with the din of students scooting into place on the cold linoleum. I was thinking about my Puffles and cartel killings when the big lights of the gymnasium clacked off. TALENT SHOW by Raniya Chowdhury www.bruisermag.com/Chowdhury_Talent
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The night before the talent show, I was browsing LiveLeak on our family desktop. Here, a man crushing his knees into concrete, rag over eyes,
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We hit a few more spots, not talking much which is fine with me. I’m thinking about the face. The last one I paint I sign DENTON. It just feels right. DENTON'S FACE by J. Hellend ↓ www.bruisermag.com/Hellend_Denton
“…the scenes are layered on top of each other in double exposure — the people band together in uncertainty, with community becoming essential in these perilous times.” Bobby Vanecko reports from the inaugural Tone Glow Film Festival
Our exogenic planet: julystruck golden burning, the sky palace destruction of the sub-heavens. GOD, FROM THE MACHINE by Betsy Studholme www.bruisermag.com/Studholme_God
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BRUISER@bruisermag.com · last mo.Two men plying their trade, showing off their skill, presenting a vision of what pro wrestling can and should be that’s very different than most of what we’ve gotten this century and it was very welcome to see. This week from Segunda Caida: Legstrong vs. Youngboy www.bruisermag.com/segundacaida...
Two men plying their trade, showing off their skill, presenting a vision of what pro wrestling can and should be that’s very different than most of what we’ve gotten this century and it was very welcome to see. This week from Segunda Caida: Legstrong vs. Youngboy www.bruisermag.com/segundacaida...