LAZY EYE STORIESThis is the story of a disembodied, methadone-addicted Lazy Eye. Originally from overseas, he now lives on a suburban street in a crumbling Middle American town, next-door to the parents of a boy named Slave, whom he’s kidnapped and enslaved.
Despite his crushing laziness, Eye is sometimes called upon to serve as a Private Eye, participating in the search for the very boy he has kidnapped. Everything changes with the discovery of a spring of fresh, natural methadone: dark riders mass on the horizon like oil prospectors or seekers after El Dorado or The Fountain of Youth. Warped by this new Gold Rush, the town reverts to its Wild West roots in a sort of lowbrow renaissance. David writes blocks of text -- Episodes and Fantasias -- which Kayla then fashions into images. |
DAVID RICEDavid Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA. He studied film and literature at Harvard, then lived in Germany for a year before settling in New York. He has just finished a novel and has published stories and essays in The Believer, Black Clock, The Collagist, Birkensnake, Nat. Brut, The New Haven Review, The Rumpus, Hobart, The Last Magazine, Identity Theory, Spork, The Literati Quarterly, and elsewhere. One of his stories was a Finalist in Glimmer Train's Nov. 2011 Short Story Awards for New Writers, and another was nominated for a 2014 Pushcart Prize. His work is online at: raviddice.com
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KAYLA E.Kayla E. was raised in a small town south of Dallas. She studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and was the art director for the Harvard Lampoon. She co-founded the university’s first student-run gallery and was awarded the Albert Alcalay Prize in Visual Arts.
She’s currently editor-in-chief of Nat. Brut and works as a freelance designer, cartoonist, and multimedia artist based in Dallas. Her work has been featured in The Comics Journal, A Public Space, and The Newer York, among other publications, and she has been featured on Feministing.com, About.com, and in the Huffington Post. Her work is online at: kaylaework.com |