Maudlin House is a bridge between new form fiction and experimental lit that takes on mainstream pop culture through the lens of 21st-century indie art

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We admire all forms of transgressive, absurdist, and minimalist literature.

ARIES (March 21st- April 20th) This week, as we meet with the orbit of Neptune, resist the urge to become a full-time vegan

Every Horoscope by Elsa Rainn Oaks

Becca swaggered into the diner with a boisterous: “Heyyyyy, bitch!” “Hey,” I mumbled, not wanting to engage with her new catchphrase. “Heyyyyy bitch” she repeated as if I would jump in and realize the err of my ways.

Voyage of the Damned

Cluck

Zac Smith lay on the ground so that Steve Jobs could vroom cars up and down his shins. It hurt a little bit at first, but then it started to feel good.

Debted

We lay down to watch a movie. My arm falls under her. She fall asleeps. I look over at my arm and think: Oh no. What if I get an itch on my wrist? What if my arm falls asleep? A cramp? What if the dog has to pee? Or I have to pee?

Three Poems That Have Something (Or Nothing) To Do With Love

My spirit animal is a weighted blanket. When people ask me, I tell them something cool like, Leopard, Giraffe, or Elephant, but I think: weighted blanket. Before they invented weighted blankets, my spirit animal was pasta water.

Three Poems Sponsored By My Seasonal Depression

I stepped out for a cigarette this morning and an old Korean woman, clutching a gray and white Shih Tzu, stumbled into me, wild hair, mask askew, eyes in a panic, stomping the ground with one foot and hissing Korean

Three Prose Poems That Might Be About Cats

Brain Debris vs. The Squid Aliens

"The silver of your 1995 BMW melted down the streets sliding off the corner curbs. Seeing your desires illuminated against the street signs, I got in."

Shotgun

Frank Sinatra Ad Libs on His Deathbed

Traditional 6 Braid Challah Bread Recipe

Crime Court

How to Field Dress a Dove in 10 Easy Steps

Isolated from family and friends during the Coronavirus pandemic, a recovering addict attempts to understand the world as seen through the television screen and his own self-destructive habits. 

Coronavirus world map: tracking the spread of the outbreak

Alice, Bobby, Christy, Dennis, and Eva…the first five of a proposed 26 children each named with a successive letter of the alphabet, so that when the birthing cycle was complete, there would be an A-to-Z compendium of kids. 

26 Kids

Last Night in Celebration

Step 1: Prepare to spend each quarantine-morning locked in mortal combat with all the winged vermin in the city. Every time you open the window ...

A Guide To Going Off Your Rocker

Why My Backpack Smells Like That

He undresses slowly in front of the window, as instructed. She’s in a second-floor bedroom in the house next to his, watching through binoculars.

Lady Neighbor

Tickets were expensive. $50,000 for a seat on the jet that flew from Boston through a hologram of the World Trade Center.

Tour Jets

A poem that reflects on The Ren and Stimpy Show

Happy Happy Joy Joy

Recurrent stress dreams in the style of F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode titles

Camacho's Best Tacos

What Are You Wearing Right Now? (Outfit of Four Prose Poems)

The fairy godmother was pissed because she’d been assigned the role of kindly old maid who had to walk around in a pink tutu holding a wand and saving girls from the predatory men and women they were in love with. 

The FGM

Doggone is about an introverted movie buff who avoids the social world in favor of indulging in the fictional reveries of cinema, its celebrated characters, and its not-so-subtle impact on modern culture, everyday life. Oh, and dogs.

Doggone

Kudzu is an invasive, voracious weed that spreads, dominant, to conquer foreign lands, a species as adamant and unrelenting as Ivy's crush on her coworker, Victor. Like kudzu, Ivy's advances are steady, her infatuation all-consuming.

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