I still delight in the radio. It can and should be free to hear for anyone with a transistor. When it works its charms on me, chance and the moment play into hearing a transmission, a letter received.
@timkabara.bsky.social In Praise of IN THE PIT WITH IZZI BAVIS: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
@timkabara.bsky.social In Praise of IN THE PIT WITH IZZI BAVIS: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
September 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I still delight in the radio. It can and should be free to hear for anyone with a transistor. When it works its charms on me, chance and the moment play into hearing a transmission, a letter received.
@timkabara.bsky.social In Praise of IN THE PIT WITH IZZI BAVIS: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
@timkabara.bsky.social In Praise of IN THE PIT WITH IZZI BAVIS: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
October in Baltimore… when Station North becomes home to some of the best emerging, low-budget, and DIY filmmaking you will see all year.
@alexlei.bsky.social is in with your NEW/NEXT PREVIEW, with more to come all week long ↓
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@alexlei.bsky.social is in with your NEW/NEXT PREVIEW, with more to come all week long ↓
www.bruisermag.com/Lei_NNpreview
NEW/NEXT TAKEOVER [Film Dispatch] - BRUISER
*BRUISER*'s crit & culture editor Alex Lei offers a preview of what's to come at this weekend's New/Next Film Festival
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September 28, 2026 at 3:45 PM
October in Baltimore… when Station North becomes home to some of the best emerging, low-budget, and DIY filmmaking you will see all year.
@alexlei.bsky.social is in with your NEW/NEXT PREVIEW, with more to come all week long ↓
www.bruisermag.com/Lei_NNpreview
@alexlei.bsky.social is in with your NEW/NEXT PREVIEW, with more to come all week long ↓
www.bruisermag.com/Lei_NNpreview
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⚡️Out now from @bruisermag.com’s
zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...
zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...
ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU - zine by John Waddy Bullion
"Like grazing a live wire, ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU seizes you and doesn't let go. An assemblage of poignant, funny, and utterly devastating rock 'n' roll histories and electric-chair mythologie...
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September 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
⚡️Out now from @bruisermag.com’s
zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...
zine series: a long standalone story(?) a non-fiction novella(?) a Marksonian pastiche(?) a book report(?) a thing (✅) from me about two uniquely American innovations: the electric guitar and the electric chair⚡️ shop.bruisermag.com/product/elec...
ANOTHER ONE
BRUISER ZINE 012: ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU, a brilliant work of nonfiction by @johnwaddy.bsky.social.
Read the excerpt today.
Copies will be available tomorrow at the BRUISER x Broken River Books reading at Floating Bookshop in OKC—online orders live now. Let’s rock! ↓
BRUISER ZINE 012: ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU, a brilliant work of nonfiction by @johnwaddy.bsky.social.
Read the excerpt today.
Copies will be available tomorrow at the BRUISER x Broken River Books reading at Floating Bookshop in OKC—online orders live now. Let’s rock! ↓
September 24, 2026 at 4:06 PM
ANOTHER ONE
BRUISER ZINE 012: ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU, a brilliant work of nonfiction by @johnwaddy.bsky.social.
Read the excerpt today.
Copies will be available tomorrow at the BRUISER x Broken River Books reading at Floating Bookshop in OKC—online orders live now. Let’s rock! ↓
BRUISER ZINE 012: ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU, a brilliant work of nonfiction by @johnwaddy.bsky.social.
Read the excerpt today.
Copies will be available tomorrow at the BRUISER x Broken River Books reading at Floating Bookshop in OKC—online orders live now. Let’s rock! ↓
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OKC! I’ll be signing copies of my books (including a new joint from @bruisermag.com) at The Floating Bookshop in OKC this Saturday, 9/26, from 2-4pm!
September 22, 2026 at 5:04 PM
OKC! I’ll be signing copies of my books (including a new joint from @bruisermag.com) at The Floating Bookshop in OKC this Saturday, 9/26, from 2-4pm!
cut myself on an onion,
can’t tell what made me cry.
tomorrow is a new day,
forever.
Four Poems by Carly Zoladz
can’t tell what made me cry.
tomorrow is a new day,
forever.
Four Poems by Carly Zoladz
September 21, 2026 at 4:12 PM
cut myself on an onion,
can’t tell what made me cry.
tomorrow is a new day,
forever.
Four Poems by Carly Zoladz
can’t tell what made me cry.
tomorrow is a new day,
forever.
Four Poems by Carly Zoladz
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some very nice people said some very nice things about something I made that’s coming out next week ⚡️
@jonathanin2k.bsky.social
@keersteemack.bsky.social
@juscarts.com
@bruisermag.com
@jonathanin2k.bsky.social
@keersteemack.bsky.social
@juscarts.com
@bruisermag.com
September 18, 2026 at 1:09 PM
some very nice people said some very nice things about something I made that’s coming out next week ⚡️
@jonathanin2k.bsky.social
@keersteemack.bsky.social
@juscarts.com
@bruisermag.com
@jonathanin2k.bsky.social
@keersteemack.bsky.social
@juscarts.com
@bruisermag.com
“The seagull is a common and perhaps vulgar creature ruled by natural cycles, but also a symbol of the freedom glimpsed in the pursuit of romantic and artistic passions.”
@ironhandslil.bsky.social on Twenty Somethings’ DIRTY BIRD, a Chekov rendition
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@ironhandslil.bsky.social on Twenty Somethings’ DIRTY BIRD, a Chekov rendition
www.bruisermag.com/merrill_db
September 17, 2026 at 2:29 PM
“The seagull is a common and perhaps vulgar creature ruled by natural cycles, but also a symbol of the freedom glimpsed in the pursuit of romantic and artistic passions.”
@ironhandslil.bsky.social on Twenty Somethings’ DIRTY BIRD, a Chekov rendition
www.bruisermag.com/merrill_db
@ironhandslil.bsky.social on Twenty Somethings’ DIRTY BIRD, a Chekov rendition
www.bruisermag.com/merrill_db
NEW ZINE
BOND, the first collection from NYC/Maryland poet Michael Baruch
Copies will be available at our Baltimore Book Festival reading this Sunday--online orders live now: shop.bruisermag.com/product/bond
BOND, the first collection from NYC/Maryland poet Michael Baruch
Copies will be available at our Baltimore Book Festival reading this Sunday--online orders live now: shop.bruisermag.com/product/bond
September 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
NEW ZINE
BOND, the first collection from NYC/Maryland poet Michael Baruch
Copies will be available at our Baltimore Book Festival reading this Sunday--online orders live now: shop.bruisermag.com/product/bond
BOND, the first collection from NYC/Maryland poet Michael Baruch
Copies will be available at our Baltimore Book Festival reading this Sunday--online orders live now: shop.bruisermag.com/product/bond
Television really does make everything better.
ESCAPING THE ALIENS by Emily Spacek
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ESCAPING THE ALIENS by Emily Spacek
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September 16, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Television really does make everything better.
ESCAPING THE ALIENS by Emily Spacek
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ESCAPING THE ALIENS by Emily Spacek
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My 1990s friends were quick to groan; “Dude, why buy the single? You already have that song!”
My retort was swift. “But, dude… what about the B-sides?”
This week @timkabara.bsky.social flips over a 1993 single from Baltimore's CANDY MACHINE: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
My retort was swift. “But, dude… what about the B-sides?”
This week @timkabara.bsky.social flips over a 1993 single from Baltimore's CANDY MACHINE: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
September 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
My 1990s friends were quick to groan; “Dude, why buy the single? You already have that song!”
My retort was swift. “But, dude… what about the B-sides?”
This week @timkabara.bsky.social flips over a 1993 single from Baltimore's CANDY MACHINE: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
My retort was swift. “But, dude… what about the B-sides?”
This week @timkabara.bsky.social flips over a 1993 single from Baltimore's CANDY MACHINE: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
is it a carillon of bruises
is it blooming blue and pink?
Four Poems by csez radojevic
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is it blooming blue and pink?
Four Poems by csez radojevic
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Four Poems by csez radojevic - BRUISER
EMETOPHILIC, HYMNAL, SACROSPECT, & SERIES OF INCANDESCENT INTRUSIONS
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September 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
is it a carillon of bruises
is it blooming blue and pink?
Four Poems by csez radojevic
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is it blooming blue and pink?
Four Poems by csez radojevic
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History was deep in the midst of evolving new crimes and incongruities. There was no obvious narrative order to events, no clear throughline, only a sign warning “No Horseplay in the Pool.”
Three Prose Poems by Howie Good ↓
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Three Prose Poems by Howie Good ↓
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Three Prose Poems by Howie Good - BRUISER
MRI, AUGUST EVENING, & NO HORSEPLAY
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September 11, 2026 at 4:22 PM
History was deep in the midst of evolving new crimes and incongruities. There was no obvious narrative order to events, no clear throughline, only a sign warning “No Horseplay in the Pool.”
Three Prose Poems by Howie Good ↓
www.bruisermag.com/Good_ProsePoems13
Three Prose Poems by Howie Good ↓
www.bruisermag.com/Good_ProsePoems13
“It has to do with holding onto analog media as tightly as possible as they try to take everything away from us and replace it with a dry oatmeal box directed by ChatGPT.”
Jess Bither talks with Caroline Kopko (a.k.a. Scumbalina) about her DIY filmmaking in Delaware
Jess Bither talks with Caroline Kopko (a.k.a. Scumbalina) about her DIY filmmaking in Delaware
September 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
“It has to do with holding onto analog media as tightly as possible as they try to take everything away from us and replace it with a dry oatmeal box directed by ChatGPT.”
Jess Bither talks with Caroline Kopko (a.k.a. Scumbalina) about her DIY filmmaking in Delaware
Jess Bither talks with Caroline Kopko (a.k.a. Scumbalina) about her DIY filmmaking in Delaware
The Butcher had a word for this kind of sunset: marbled.
Three Poems by Ty Holter
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Three Poems by Ty Holter
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September 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
The Butcher had a word for this kind of sunset: marbled.
Three Poems by Ty Holter
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Three Poems by Ty Holter
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It made sense, of course.
Punk shows should be held at the skatepark.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns to Anything for a Weird Life with RIP AND RUN: A BALTIMORE PUNK ROCK SKATE PARK STORY: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
Punk shows should be held at the skatepark.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns to Anything for a Weird Life with RIP AND RUN: A BALTIMORE PUNK ROCK SKATE PARK STORY: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
September 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
It made sense, of course.
Punk shows should be held at the skatepark.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns to Anything for a Weird Life with RIP AND RUN: A BALTIMORE PUNK ROCK SKATE PARK STORY: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
Punk shows should be held at the skatepark.
@timkabara.bsky.social returns to Anything for a Weird Life with RIP AND RUN: A BALTIMORE PUNK ROCK SKATE PARK STORY: www.bruisermag.com/kabara_weird...
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@bruisermag.com in OKC. Yes please. A reading with also Broken River books. Yes I’ll have seconds! Cool events happening towards the end of September @thefloatingbookshop.com
September 7, 2026 at 7:50 PM
@bruisermag.com in OKC. Yes please. A reading with also Broken River books. Yes I’ll have seconds! Cool events happening towards the end of September @thefloatingbookshop.com
“Bring the child,” they said as I reached the window . . .
ARRIVALS by Nora Rawn
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ARRIVALS by Nora Rawn
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September 7, 2026 at 3:07 PM
“Bring the child,” they said as I reached the window . . .
ARRIVALS by Nora Rawn
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ARRIVALS by Nora Rawn
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“The world would love you endlessly. It is in shambles. You are the only one who can fix it.”
Three Stories by Steven Markow ↓
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Three Stories by Steven Markow ↓
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Three Stories by Steven Markow - BRUISER
WAITING FOR WHAT THE CAT DECIDES, ROMULUS & BLEEDING HONEY, COUNTING MONEY
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September 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
“The world would love you endlessly. It is in shambles. You are the only one who can fix it.”
Three Stories by Steven Markow ↓
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Three Stories by Steven Markow ↓
www.bruisermag.com/Markow_ThreeStories
“It was so obvious as we were writing this that we were writing ourselves.”
@alexlei.bsky.social talks with Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank about their messy, beautiful, and heartbreaking portrait of young adulthood, DRINKING AND DRIVING
@alexlei.bsky.social talks with Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank about their messy, beautiful, and heartbreaking portrait of young adulthood, DRINKING AND DRIVING
September 3, 2026 at 3:18 PM
“It was so obvious as we were writing this that we were writing ourselves.”
@alexlei.bsky.social talks with Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank about their messy, beautiful, and heartbreaking portrait of young adulthood, DRINKING AND DRIVING
@alexlei.bsky.social talks with Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank about their messy, beautiful, and heartbreaking portrait of young adulthood, DRINKING AND DRIVING
when i buy things
god sighs
and opens his mouth
and goes ca-ching
Three poems by Sadie Balsom
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god sighs
and opens his mouth
and goes ca-ching
Three poems by Sadie Balsom
www.bruisermag.com/balsom_three...
September 2, 2026 at 2:05 PM
when i buy things
god sighs
and opens his mouth
and goes ca-ching
Three poems by Sadie Balsom
www.bruisermag.com/balsom_three...
god sighs
and opens his mouth
and goes ca-ching
Three poems by Sadie Balsom
www.bruisermag.com/balsom_three...
🚨 𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙂 🚨
4 sʜᴏʀᴛ ꜰɪʟᴍs ʙʏ Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴇ Kᴏᴘᴋᴏ
ᴡ/ ᴀ ʟɪᴠᴇ sᴄᴏʀᴇ ʙʏ 🥩𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒕🥩
Tᴜᴇsᴅᴀʏ, Sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 15 ᴀᴛ Nᴏʀᴍᴀʟ’s
7ᴘᴍ • $10 ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴏʀ
ⓝⓞⓣⓐⓕⓛⓞⓕ
4 sʜᴏʀᴛ ꜰɪʟᴍs ʙʏ Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴇ Kᴏᴘᴋᴏ
ᴡ/ ᴀ ʟɪᴠᴇ sᴄᴏʀᴇ ʙʏ 🥩𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒕🥩
Tᴜᴇsᴅᴀʏ, Sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 15 ᴀᴛ Nᴏʀᴍᴀʟ’s
7ᴘᴍ • $10 ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴏʀ
ⓝⓞⓣⓐⓕⓛⓞⓕ
September 1, 2026 at 5:20 PM
🚨 𝘼𝙉𝙉𝙊𝙐𝙉𝘾𝙄𝙉𝙂 🚨
4 sʜᴏʀᴛ ꜰɪʟᴍs ʙʏ Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴇ Kᴏᴘᴋᴏ
ᴡ/ ᴀ ʟɪᴠᴇ sᴄᴏʀᴇ ʙʏ 🥩𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒕🥩
Tᴜᴇsᴅᴀʏ, Sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 15 ᴀᴛ Nᴏʀᴍᴀʟ’s
7ᴘᴍ • $10 ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴏʀ
ⓝⓞⓣⓐⓕⓛⓞⓕ
4 sʜᴏʀᴛ ꜰɪʟᴍs ʙʏ Cᴀʀᴏʟɪɴᴇ Kᴏᴘᴋᴏ
ᴡ/ ᴀ ʟɪᴠᴇ sᴄᴏʀᴇ ʙʏ 🥩𝑺𝒍𝒂𝒃 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒂𝒕🥩
Tᴜᴇsᴅᴀʏ, Sᴇᴘᴛᴇᴍʙᴇʀ 15 ᴀᴛ Nᴏʀᴍᴀʟ’s
7ᴘᴍ • $10 ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴏᴏʀ
ⓝⓞⓣⓐⓕⓛⓞⓕ
Let’s see what I have been up to…. August….. the end of “summer” and, hopefully soon, the end of involuntarily sweating through the one thin layer of clothing. So tired of being really so sweaty against my will.
This month in THE SARAH B-LOG: Dear Diary...
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This month in THE SARAH B-LOG: Dear Diary...
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DEAR DIARY... [The Sarah B-log] - BRUISER
Let's see what I have been up to.... August..... the end of
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September 1, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Let’s see what I have been up to…. August….. the end of “summer” and, hopefully soon, the end of involuntarily sweating through the one thin layer of clothing. So tired of being really so sweaty against my will.
This month in THE SARAH B-LOG: Dear Diary...
www.bruisermag.com/sarahblog_se...
This month in THE SARAH B-LOG: Dear Diary...
www.bruisermag.com/sarahblog_se...
I don’t know what he saw, but I know what I saw.
BOBS YOUR UNCLE by Garret Fopma
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BOBS YOUR UNCLE by Garret Fopma
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August 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I don’t know what he saw, but I know what I saw.
BOBS YOUR UNCLE by Garret Fopma
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BOBS YOUR UNCLE by Garret Fopma
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“The rain picked up again, adding to the purr of the projectors.”
Jess Bither reports from Current Space, where Baltimore’s DIY filmmakers gathered for the latest edition of New Works
Jess Bither reports from Current Space, where Baltimore’s DIY filmmakers gathered for the latest edition of New Works
August 27, 2026 at 3:09 PM
“The rain picked up again, adding to the purr of the projectors.”
Jess Bither reports from Current Space, where Baltimore’s DIY filmmakers gathered for the latest edition of New Works
Jess Bither reports from Current Space, where Baltimore’s DIY filmmakers gathered for the latest edition of New Works