Volume 8 2023

Main Squeeze staff is honored to show the works of authors and artists who collectively show the ineffable breadth of this cherished responsibility we have on earth: to produce as much art as possible. Some of these works have suffered interdimensional voyages and were spliced between the cosmos, thus appearing so absent. Some were written under gallows, on top of numerous bison, papers thrown into inbox seconds before the end of the world. You ever seen relentless verse shoveled into the hungry air? We still love you.

Staff

Editor-in-Chief: Indigo Palmer
Managing Editor: Colin Ivey
Fiction Editors: Asher Laubach, Daryl Burks, Kaya Courtroul, Sophie Burnette
Poetry Editors: Davy Crockett Wiggins, Rhiannon Chavez, Rubin Forette
Nonfiction Editors: William Smith, Zach Hudson
Art Editor: Rubin Forette
Design & Layout: Asher Astrum
Communication & PR: Zach Hudson

Fiction

Angel Soup by Gabriela V. Everett
Me and Joey Kill a Bird With a Rake by Liam Bull
Mickey by Rebekah Hopp
Narcissus by Kaleb J. Scarminach
Searching Hands by Indigo Palmer
You Know How This Ends by Kei Oni Garcia

Nonfiction

Skin by Lindsey Miller

Poetry

Captain Acab by Josh Patton
Castlegate Lane [Panku*] by Dee Allen
Crossword Sonnet No.2 by Parker Boom
Dancing with an elephant by Amirah Al Wassif
Don’t dream by Amirah Al Wassif
father figurine by Jack Gotter
Happiness by Emily Murray
Headlines Before The End of The World by Merlin Gerhard
La Femme Chauve Souris by Merlin Gerhard
MAIN SQUEEZIN’ ME OFF by Rubin Forrette
Mata Hari Dress by Kirsti Sandy
My sarah got pinched off by loose hose by Davy Crockett Wiggins
Neocon fable, mythologized with tabloids by Andy Oram
New Year’s Resolutions by Parker Boom
On Hong Kong Landmark National Security Trial by C.J. Anderson-Wu
Pink by Sophie Burnette
Shows Within Show Lingo by Gerard Sarnat
Smoking Outside the Mall by Mike Vance
Staring Down a Barrel Shaped Like My Father by M.R. Wiard
This Thursday, 212 Rix Road, to celebrate the life of a great American poet, bring snacks, tissues, and your girlfriend’s tits by Rhiannon Chavez
Toast by Julia Ponder
Trans Agenda by Jack Gotter
Victims of Maintaining a Garden by Sky Church
Vision from within the womb by Amirah Al Wassif

Art

A Head of Things by Martha Clarkson
Bitterroot Memories – Land of the Salish by Kathleen Frank
Lungi Kam XI by Catherine Eaton Skinner
Lungi Kam XVI by Catherine Eaton Skinner
Overijssel by Jesse Hill
Swimming by Martha Clarkson
Untitled by Liam Bull