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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· 7d

Considering BotN nominations, and damn, our archive is absolutely stacked www.alwayscrashing.com/archive

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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· 22d

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The first recorded poodle death related to aberrant behavior was noted as early as 9:30 p.m. (GMT), with the so-called Kikipoo Incident. According to reports, a toy poodle on a personal jet flight from Miami, Florida, to Atlanta, Georgia, became quite agitated. The owner, a middle-aged American woman, is quoted as saying: “Kikipoo spilled my martini, lapped it up and began running in circles.”[2] Kikipoo’s frenetic barking (described by the sole crew member working in the cabin as “loathsome, something between a growl and a prolonged bark”) led the pilot to make an emergency landing in Tallahassee, where, witnesses say, the poodle escaped the confines of her owner’s arms and ran on the tarmac directly under the wheels of a luggage carrier. The event concluded by 10:30 p.m. (GMT), when the worldwide poodle decimation is generally acknowledged to have begun.

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· 27d

Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series Tomorrow / 7pm Chicago / Comfort Station / 2579 N Milwaukee

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jul 13

Always Crashing Reading & Performance Series 18 July 2026 / 7pm Chicago / Comfort Station / 2579 N Milwaukee

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jul 7

"Lover" by William Lessard / a memory, several memories, a voyeuristic digital striptease / New today at AC www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...

It’s Thursday. The day we see each other. Our ritual began in August. With a postcard from Spain. On one side of the postcard, people in bathing suits running toward the ocean. On the other, looping green script, it said we should get together for coffee.

Big moments are preceded by small moments. Often the small moments are so small we can’t see them. When she asked for my address; was one. When we she took a step close to me during an oral exam, that was another.

In the theater, between kisses in the last row, words slide from her tongue to mine. “When I heard your voice that day on the phone, that’s when I knew.” She’s older, older by a decade and a half. And married. Last week, she kept brushing against me as we walked along the river. First her arm. Then her hip. Then her breast. Her breast arrived in a slow swipe.

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jun 25

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Tautology

It is possible to see another, not
the body of another

as a field, a wilderness upon which
any breach might come

to define what is flesh and what is not flesh.
This flesh, and that: a vacancy

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jun 18

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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jun 11

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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jun 11

Now reading for our online edition www.alwayscrashing.com/submissions

Always Crashing is open for submissions of fiction, poetry, collage text, visual collage, video, labyrinths, manifestos, the generically transgressive, and nonfiction (though we prefer not to be told if it’s nonfiction)

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Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Jun 9

Parking Lots Nos. 2, 3, 5, & 6 by J. D. Schraffenberger (@jdschraff.bsky.social) featuring slowness, atmospheric noise, final words New today at Always Crashing www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 27

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His teeth are too wet. His teeth are too sharp.

Autumn is a carcass, rotting.

And with one sudden twist, you jerk out of his grasp, barge open the gate and sprint down the path into the house. Mum won’t be home for another two hours. You lock the front door and cower in the bathroom.

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 11

Announcing the next iteration of the AC Reading & Performance Series 7/18/26 - Chicago - Comfort Station - 2579 N Milwaukee - 7pm Readings by @andrew-farkas.bsky.social / @klooky.bsky.social / David Welch Performances by Jack Langdon / Erica Miller / Janna Lee

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 7

Ending the night with eHpH

Man with mohawk singing into microphone, another man playing keyboard, picture of woman's face on a projector screen behind them

Man with mohawk singing, lit by the light of the projector; man in background playing keyboard

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 7

"'There is another language,' he said, 'lying within this one.... One must dig into the language to find its true heart'"

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 7

"Tornadoes, tame beasts. Treat yourself."

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 7

Terence Hannum

Seated person playing electronic instruments, mysterious glowing green box in background

Mysterious green box overlaid on performer

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 7

"So you get to be the world behind the two way glass, the one that gets watched but can't watch back... No, not God, just a pale lavender light grooving on its own vivosity."

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 7

"The conception that there would be an identifiable point within this clusterfuck is reassuring"

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 6

Tonight! AC Reading and Performance Series - Online Edition / 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern Featuring @perfidiousscript.bsky.social / @incastellated.bsky.social / Gina Abelkop / Glenn Shaheen Music by Terence Hannum and eHpH tinyurl.com/273z7ubk ID: 975 4131 3220 PC: 116657

Flyer for the AC Reading and Performance Series, Online Edition, May 6 - Details in post

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 5

Tomorrow / 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern tinyurl.com/273z7ubk ID: 975 4131 3220 PC: 116657

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 4

Wednesday / 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern AC Reading and Performance Series - Online Edition Featuring @perfidiousscript.bsky.social / @incastellated.bsky.social / Gina Abelkop / Glenn Shaheen Music by Terence Hannum and eHpH tinyurl.com/273z7ubk ID: 975 4131 3220 PC: 116657

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· May 1

Next Wednesday / AC Reading and Performance Series - Online Edition / 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern Featuring @perfidiousscript.bsky.social / @incastellated.bsky.social / Gina Abelkop / Glenn Shaheen Music by Terence Hannum and eHpH tinyurl.com/273z7ubk ID: 975 4131 3220 PC: 116657

Flyer for the AC Reading and Performance Series, Online Edition, May 6

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Apr 15

Now at AC: "Written," a labyrinthine interactive writing/failure simulator by JI Daniels www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Keep going?

Yes, please
Oh god no. I couldn't write another sentence. Please let this stop.

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Apr 14

"Written" by JI Daniels (@narrativelies.bsky.social) / New today at AC www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Apr 1

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The stain made me feel uneasy, it made me feel chased. I saw faces in there I thought I’d forgotten. My heart flipped like a shuffle of poker cards. I took out my cellphone and took shots of the stain. I put it on the tabletop, against the glass of the coffee table. I switched angles snapping shots and I documented it. I posted it live to watch on the stream of media, I wrote in the caption, The Stain. The next night I posted The Devil. In a few minutes someone commented, It looks like you. How so, I typed back in the chat.

You wrote them.

Are you kidding me??! I replied.

Only the devil can write his own name…

Lol!

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Mar 18

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The film is 176 minutes long. The subject, her name known world wide, and the filmmaker, anonymous.

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Mar 7

Last day in Baltimore! T869, grab an issue, come say hi

AC editor Meghan Lamb standing behind the Always Crashing AWP table

"Saturday Sale: 1 Issue = $7, 2 Issues = $12, 4 Issues = $20, Shirts = $25"

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Feb 26

We'll be at AWP next week at table T869 w/copies of our print issues, stickers, some extremely good shirts, and AS-YET UNANNOUNCED NEWS ABOUT OUR NEXT PRINT ISSUE Plus we're throwing a fantastic off-site with @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @meeklingpress.bsky.social, & the band Luna Honey See you there

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Feb 24

Design by AC editor Jessica Berger (who is Not On Here)

A man wearing a long sleeved black shirt. On the back is a large white wall of text

Always Crashing@alwayscrashing· Feb 21

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