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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 4h
Read an excerpt of ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU at the link below. If you like what you read, hit up the @bruisermag.com store or contact me directly to get a copy, for the⚡️electrifyingly⚡️low price of $10! www.bruisermag.com/bullion_elec...
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Excerpt from ELECTROCUTION IS A PORTMANTEAU by John Waddy Bullion - BRUISER
John Waddy Bullion is a Fort Worth-based writer of fiction and nonfiction and the author of This World Will Never Run Out of Strangers (Cowboy
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A CINEMATIC HISTORY LESSON [New/Next Takeover] - BRUISER
Michael Lentz talks to legendary editor Sam Pollard about his new documentary playing at New/Next Film Festival, *The Lorraine*
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 3h
NEW/NEXT TAKEOVER “It’s not to say I don’t have an ego — I do — but I realize that with great collaborators you make a better project.” First up in our series of New/Next interviews, Baltimore filmmaker Michael Lentz chats with the one and only Sam Pollard about THE LORRAINE
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 29/09/2026
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...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 28/09/2026
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
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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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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️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...
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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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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 24/09/2026
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 24/09/2026
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! ↓
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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!
A cool flyer conveying basically the same information as the skeet above, but with a cool slobbering mouth
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 21/09/2026
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Four Poems by Carly Zoladz - BRUISER
up in the stratosphere today, acting like a monarch butterfly; never to live a life of my own but thinking generations ahead, floating in on tired
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 21/09/2026
cut myself on an onion, can’t tell what made me cry. tomorrow is a new day, forever. Four Poems by Carly Zoladz
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John Waddy Bullion @johnwaddy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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
"John Waddy Bullion could've submitted this as a dissertation on the history of electricity. Instead, he wires something uncontainable into our nerves, our veins, the marrow of our bones, each turn of the page rattling our teeth looser, our hair , catching fire."
Jonathan Danielson-
author of The Lowest Basin: Arizona Stories

"Bullion at his best: a balancing act of breezy humor and horrid brutality, blending history, pop culture, and capital punishment into a single narrative.
Bullion doesn't just throw the switch. He lights
'em the fuck up."
Kirsti MacKenzie
author of Better to Beg

"There's no writer better equipped to trace the etymology of
"electrocution" like Bullion, whose work always veers into the most electrifying spaces, the most surprising worlds."
Justin Carter
author of Brazos
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 17/09/2026
“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
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 16/09/2026
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
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 16/09/2026
Television really does make everything better. ESCAPING THE ALIENS by Emily Spacek www.bruisermag.com/spacek_aliens
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 15/09/2026
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...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 14/09/2026
is it a carillon of bruises is it blooming blue and pink? Four Poems by csez radojevic www.bruisermag.com/Radojevic_Fo...
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Four Poems by csez radojevic - BRUISER
EMETOPHILIC, HYMNAL, SACROSPECT, & SERIES OF INCANDESCENT INTRUSIONS
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 11/09/2026
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
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Three Prose Poems by Howie Good - BRUISER
MRI, AUGUST EVENING, & NO HORSEPLAY
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 10/09/2026
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ASS-BACKWARDS AND A SNAIL'S PACE THROUGH THE MAGICAL & ABYSMAL [Film Dispatch] - BRUISER
Jess Bither talks with Caroline Kopko (a.k.a. Scumbalina) about her DIY filmmaking in Delaware
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 10/09/2026
“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
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 09/09/2026
The Butcher had a word for this kind of sunset: marbled. Three Poems by Ty Holter www.bruisermag.com/Holter_Three...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 08/09/2026
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...
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Anonymous absurdist zines from the Bible Belt @absurdistzines.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
@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
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 07/09/2026
“Bring the child,” they said as I reached the window . . . ARRIVALS by Nora Rawn www.bruisermag.com/Rawn_Arrivals
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 04/09/2026
“The world would love you endlessly. It is in shambles. You are the only one who can fix it.” Three Stories by Steven Markow ↓ www.bruisermag.com/Markow_ThreeStories
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WAITING FOR WHAT THE CAT DECIDES, ROMULUS & BLEEDING HONEY, COUNTING MONEY
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 03/09/2026
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NONEXISTENT SOBER REALITIES [Film Dispatch] - BRUISER
Alex Lei talks with *Drinking and Driving* co-directors Avalon Fast and Jillian Frank
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 03/09/2026
“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
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 02/09/2026
when i buy things god sighs and opens his mouth and goes ca-ching Three poems by Sadie Balsom www.bruisermag.com/balsom_three...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 01/09/2026
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 01/09/2026
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...
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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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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 31/08/2026
I don’t know what he saw, but I know what I saw. BOBS YOUR UNCLE by Garret Fopma www.bruisermag.com/Fopma_Uncle
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 27/08/2026
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A NIGHT OF NEW WORKS [Film Dispatch] - BRUISER
Jess Bither reports from Current Space on the latest from Baltimore's DIY filmmakers
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 27/08/2026
“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
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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Packed house for Tetsuo: The Iron Man/Tetsuo II: Body Hammer at Fadensonnen last night! Stay tuned for news on our next Pure Kinema screening @alexlei.bsky.social @bruisermag.com
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 26/08/2026
He goes forward whose love is past beauty; Amen, amen to my girl’s city. UN AÑITO EN BALTIMORE by Hanna Karras www.bruisermag.com/Karras_Anito
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 25/08/2026
“It is because of my devotion to Reality that I hate Realism, that inhuman corset that turns off all the lights of the marvelous.” Luke Shuffield on the new Aira translation from New Directions: www.bruisermag.com/shuffield_aira
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 24/08/2026
The scene’s so small you could reach in like the hand of God to open the windows, close the oven, turn off the gas burners, and pluck all the paper from the door cracks. Three prose poems by @jackbedell.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Bedell_ThreeProsePoems
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 21/08/2026
My mouth bleeds for you. I swallow my own tooth. WE ARE TOO TALL by Fran Kursztejn ↓ www.bruisermag.com/kursztejn_tall
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 20/08/2026
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EXTRAHUMAN PERHAPS DIVINE by Scout Tafoya - BRUISER
from *The Otherworld: The Mythic Dimensions of Christophe Gans*
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 20/08/2026
“Tough not to think of Tetris, the great Russian video game. It is this freedom that Tarkovsky himself represented.” An excerpt from Scout Tafoya’s (@honorszombie.bsky.social) book The Otherworld: The Mythic Dimensions of Christophe Gans
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 19/08/2026
Fish made entirely of eyes fly in the air above. Birds without feathers swim in the mirror sea. IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES 1, 3, & 5 by Nathan Steinman ↓ www.bruisermag.com/steinman_lan...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 18/08/2026
The beautiful thing about the East Coast is that most bands can be linked to one another through bills, geography, or some odd mix of the two. There’s a continuum, and I’m grateful to God to be standing at its feet. welcoming the BRUISER ALL AGES DISPATCH: www.bruisermag.com/jackg_allage...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 17/08/2026
I found the first bone shortly after noon. We weren’t looking for remains. ANCIENT GREEK STAGE ACTING by AJ Speier-Wallace ↓ www.bruisermag.com/Speier-Walla...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 14/08/2026
My spine became a zipper made of velvet. You pulled it down to see the stars inside. Six prose poems by @leonardzinovyev.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Zinovyev_SixProsePoems
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 13/08/2026
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IN TEN YEARS, I HOPE I HATE EVERYTHING I'VE WRITTEN [INTERVIEW] - BRUISER
Alden Nagel talks with GHOULS IN LOVE author Eric Subpar
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 13/08/2026
“My biggest fear is that we’ve been totally wrong about death all along” Alden Nagel talks with Ghouls in Love author @ericsubpar.bsky.social
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m a x @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
We’ve also got them in the @bruisermag.com shop if you can’t make the screening! shop.bruisermag.com/product/pure...
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PURE KINEMA: Tetsuo Double Feature - Limited Edition Poster
These limited edition, high quality posters were made in collaboration with Anuran Press to commemorate the inaugural screening in the PURE KINEMA series. Front designed by Sam Rivera Back designed by...
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 12/08/2026
there’s not enough blood to satisfy my ego Three Poems by @trshboyoli.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/Scialdone_ThreePoems
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 11/08/2026
Effective immediately, BRUISER accepts submissions of physical media for review. These will be assigned to our burgeoning critics bullpen. INTRODUCING: BRUISER REVIEW: www.bruisermag.com/review
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BRUISER @bruisermag.com · 10/08/2026
Concern citizens noted his red spiked hair resembled a cartoonish iteration of the the Devil’s horns. Others drew parallels between his name and that of Beelzebub. THE LOST DARK HISTORY OF BOZO THE CLOWN by Caleb Bethea www.bruisermag.com/Bethea_Bozo
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