I had to step back and admire the tree anew, with its spreadeagle stance and its magical womb.
A TALE OF TWO HOLES by Dodge Zelko
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They wanted suffering they could frame. Clem called it merchandising. I called it access. People wanted to touch other people’s pain. Either way, the archive kept expanding.
DEREK'S CAR by Wyatt Robinette
www.bruisermag.com/Robinette_Car
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“…looking out at all these wild animals that I’ve never been around before in my life you know what I see? Promise. Endless horizon. Because of their love and our love and everybody’s love.”
Bobby Vanecko reports from Bramble Theater’s workshop production, THE PETS
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A birch and glass box I cannot escape in one corner of the room
is fogged up with breath with sweat with fear with want and
near the window where the heavy sun is burning a hole four men
are playing cool jazz.
JAZZ CAGE by Ursula Carroll
www.bruisermag.com/Carroll_Jazz
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Like all things, bands end.
A light was cast into the darkness. Did you see it?
In this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE, @timkabara.bsky.social reflects on the final chapter of Baltimore’s Mondrary.
MONDRARY: THE END
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Jeremiah stops. His eyes are wide and he is terrified. He looks down with outstretched arms at his legs. “Dude,” he says, voice shaking. “Where are my fucking pants?”
CANADA VACANT by @jamdraper.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Draper_Canada
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He screamed and hit himself in the forehead with a drumstick until he started bleeding. He drove us back from the city with bloodstains on his shirt.
POWER // VIOLENCE by @dylanpyles.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Pyles_Powerviolence
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“In fact, Satanic panic seems almost quaint when compared to our modern-day horrors…”
Tim Paggi reports on Connor M. Kizer’s latest piece of DIY theater at the Mercury, an adaptation of The Blood on Satan’s Claw
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FRIDAY APRIL 24
BRUISER PRESENTS:
SPRUNG
featuring readings from an unreal slate of consummate bruisers:
CARSON JORDAN, ANNA K. CROOKS, MICHAEL BARUCH, KELLY XIO, LILY HERMAN & MARK WADLEY
7PM at the legendary @normalsbooksbalto.bsky.social
$10 if you got it
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“I’ve had this idea for a while. To be honest, I just never had the guts to pull it off . . .”
PROPOSAL, spoken word and soundscape by Sean G. Meggeson
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“Wavelength” is the term I tend to use to describe folks who I fall in with, travel with, and want to be around frequently in the Baltimore music and arts underground.
Today in Anything for a Weird Life, @timkabara.bsky.social talks Cex: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
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Fresh corpses full to the seams of rotten fruit sing their lament to the frog spawn, mingled about their toes
SURF’S UP by @archedroadway.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Hay_Surf
2 weeks ago
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The king saw me watching
and said, “In the next life,
I want to be the dog.”
COMPAÑERO by Carson Jordan
www.bruisermag.com/Jordan_Companero
2 weeks ago
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I’m not sure what else is mouldering down here or why.
GENYA II by @ironhandslil.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Merrill_Genya
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There is a hole in the back of my head.
I could mean a lobotomy or a bald spot.
Four poems by Gillian Justice
www.bruisermag.com/Justice_FourPoems
2 weeks ago
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“Every time I attend New Works I feel a bit like a jukebox afterwards, one full of Baltimore’s weird dreams instead of songs.”
Jess Bither reports from the latest in Baltimore’s underground film scene
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The king saw me watching
and said, “In the next life,
I want to be the dog.”
COMPAÑERO by Carson Jordan
www.bruisermag.com/Jordan_Companero
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The flyer for the show does not contain a name for the venue or an address.
One is instructed to “ask a punk.” The 2026 digital equivalent is “DM for address”.
So, I do.
Prepare for STRANGE TIMES IN THE “ASKAPUNKIVERSE” with @timkabara.bsky.social in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE ↓
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The flyer for the show does not contain a name for the venue or an address.
One is instructed to “ask a punk.” The 2026 digital equivalent is “DM for address”.
So, I do.
Prepare for STRANGE TIMES IN THE “ASKAPUNKIVERSE” with @timkabara.bsky.social in this week’s ANYTHING FOR A WEIRD LIFE ↓
2 weeks ago
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I’m not sure what else is mouldering down here or why.
GENYA II by @ironhandslil.bsky.social
www.bruisermag.com/Merrill_Genya
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Tyler Dempsey's essay was the longest piece we've published yet, so here's a micro by him for your perusal before tomorrow's new rendition, published in THE ONLY LIT MAG IN THE WORLD @bruisermag.com
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“Your organs are so soft, like pressure-canned peaches.”
CRASH SITE by Dre Levant
www.bruisermag.com/Levant_Crash
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BRUISER IS COOL
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“A Blade Runner is different to a Bladerunner.”
Rhys Delany journey’s through Nourse, Burroughs, Scott, and Huckabee and Smith’s ‘Blade Runners’
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Bruiser is legit one of the best places going, so I’m pumped to be there for the second time. Thanks @bruisermag.com!
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