Author name: Nicholas Alti

From rural Michigan, Nicholas Alti is a bartender in Atlanta who holds an MFA from The University of Alabama. He is interested in horror, arcana, silliness, and surrealism. His poetry is in The Horror Zine, BlazeVOX, Poet LoreRed Ogre Review, and elsewhere. Find all his published work at 3bluntzatonce.com.

Chum Bucket

Under the Carnivore Moon’s light my tentacles develop, I morph orbular: Werefish with mulish teeth, tufts of eyelashes for fur.    I’m the dumbest idiot on Creature Street. All the mutants splash my cesspit with ectoplasm, say I’m non-phantasmagoric.    I’d kill everyone in heaven just to make you lonely.    I’m not touching you […]

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I Let in a Bug

I guide the housefly inside. Am purposeful, literal.             My first words: mother, what                  have you done!? (don’t you dare say dad’s dingle, I’m new). I hold my pet corpse’s hand: we’ve done      well, old friend, and we know family is an effort                to keep bills paid and pills taken; refurbish

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