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“HAIRCUT”

By Jesse Hilson

On Saturday morning, before lunch at the food court at the local mall, before hitting the Shoe Dept and catching the 1:40 showing of Avatar 4, is a perfect time to stop off at QuikCuts and get a trim. The hairdressers all have certificates from beauty school and love to chat with customers. They make you feel right at home.

Jesse Hilson is a writer and artist living in the Catskills in New York State. His work has appeared in Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Apocalypse Confidential, Scaffold, Farewell Transmission, Excuse Me Mag, Expat, Misery Tourism, and other venues. He has written two novels, Blood Trip and The Tattletales; one story collection, The Calendar Factory; and a poetry collection, Handcuffing the Venus De Milo. He can be reached on Instagram at @platelet60 and he runs a Substack newsletter called Chlorophyll & Hemoglobin.

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Comic Strip #3

By Craig Rodgers

Craig Rodgers is the author of ten books, a handful of lies, and all manner of foolishness.

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Notes to A Friend; Silently Listening #2

By William Schaff

William Schaff has been a working artist for over two decades. Known primarily for his mastery at album artwork, (Okkervil River, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Songs: Ohia, etc.) Schaff is also the founder of Warren Rhode Island’s “Fort Foreclosure”. The building, lovingly named without the least bit of irony, serves as Schaff’s home and studio as well as  home and meeting place for  other artists (most notably former resident musicians MorganEve Swain, and the Late David Lamb, both of Brown Bird).  William also performed for a decade with the What Cheer? Brigade, as one of 20 musicians in a brass band that travelled the U.S. and Europe. An experience that shaped so much of his life. In 2015, recognizing the importance of art in this world, he expanded his community to the West Coast, where he started “The Outpost”, in Oakland, California. There —   financial earnings be damned! — William filled his days creating works of art for private commissions, bands, exhibitions  and his own examinations of human interaction. He has since returned to Rhode Island and can be found, daily, doing the same at the Fort. He has a Patreon page if you’d like gifts in the mail and to help keep the lights on.

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Comic Strip #5

By Craig Rodgers

Craig Rodgers is the author of ten books, a handful of lies, and all manner of foolishness.

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Spirit of the Cheese

By William Schaff

William Schaff has been a working artist for over two decades.  Known primarily for his mastery at album artwork, (Okkervil River, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Songs: Ohia, etc.) Schaff is also the founder of Warren Rhode Island’s “Fort Foreclosure”. The building, lovingly named without the least bit of irony, serves as Schaff’s home and studio as well as  home and meeting place for  other artists (most notably former resident musicians MorganEve Swain, and the Late David Lamb, both of Brown Bird).  William also performed for a decade with the What Cheer? Brigade, as one of 20 musicians in a brass band that travelled the U.S. and Europe. An experience that shaped so much of his life. In 2015, recognizing the importance of art in this world, he expanded his community to the West Coast, where he started “The Outpost”, in Oakland, California. There —   financial earnings be damned! — William filled his days creating works of art for private commissions, bands, exhibitions  and his own examinations of human interaction. He has since returned to Rhode Island and can be found, daily, doing the same at the Fort. He has a Patreon page if you’d like gifts in the mail and to help keep the lights on.

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Comic Strip #7

By Craig Rodgers

Craig Rodgers is the author of ten books, a handful of lies, and all manner of foolishness.

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Notes to A Friend; Silently Listening #5

By William Schaff

William Schaff has been a working artist for over two decades.  Known primarily for his mastery at album artwork, (Okkervil River, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Songs: Ohia, etc.) Schaff is also the founder of Warren Rhode Island’s “Fort Foreclosure”. The building, lovingly named without the least bit of irony, serves as Schaff’s home and studio as well as home and meeting place for other artists (most notably former resident musicians MorganEve Swain, and the Late David Lamb, both of Brown Bird).  William also performed for a decade with the What Cheer? Brigade, as one of 20 musicians in a brass band that travelled the U.S. and Europe. An experience that shaped so much of his life. In 2015, recognizing the importance of art in this world, he expanded his community to the West Coast, where he started “The Outpost”, in Oakland, California. There — financial earnings be damned! — William filled his days creating works of art for private commissions, bands, exhibitions and his own examinations of human interaction. He has since returned to Rhode Island and can be found, daily, doing the same at the Fort. He has a Patreon page if you’d like gifts in the mail and to help keep the lights on.

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Comic Strip #1

By Craig Rodgers

Craig Rodgers is the author of ten books, a handful of lies, and all manner of foolishness.

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A Short Remembrance of Some Mail Art

By William Schaff

William Schaff has been a working artist for over two decades.  Known primarily for his mastery at album artwork, (Okkervil River, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Songs: Ohia, etc.) Schaff is also the founder of Warren Rhode Island’s “Fort Foreclosure”. The building, lovingly named without the least bit of irony, serves as Schaff’s home and studio as well as  home and meeting place for  other artists (most notably former resident musicians MorganEve Swain, and the Late David Lamb, both of Brown Bird).  William also performed for a decade with the What Cheer? Brigade, as one of 20 musicians in a brass band that travelled the U.S. and Europe. An experience that shaped so much of his life. In 2015, recognizing the importance of art in this world, he expanded his community to the West Coast, where he started “The Outpost”, in Oakland, California. There —   financial earnings be damned! — William filled his days creating works of art for private commissions, bands, exhibitions  and his own examinations of human interaction. He has since returned to Rhode Island and can be found, daily, doing the same at the Fort. He has a Patreon page if you’d like gifts in the mail and to help keep the lights on.