In Demons of Eminence a young traveling ICU nurse and self-described “cumdump” observes and sanctifies the friendship between an aging gay porn star and a goth chola dropout half his age, one that leads to them throwing endless parties in the industrial scrublands of SoCal’s Inland Empire at the height of the pandemic.
By Joshua Escobar
As the pandemic began, I switched to being a travel nurse. Like all healthcare workers, I received the vaccine early but only after a hoe trip to LA. It was almost unbearable without it.
Your Impossible Voice #31 finds the doomsday clock ticking twenty days from the apocalypse. It’s chock-full of liars, the lost, and the lonely floating in fog and hungry for cake, eggs, and kink. All that plus Allen Ginsberg, Frida Kahlo, and a magnificent tower of giraffes.
Featuring work by Joshua Escobar, Adelheid Duvanel (translated by Tyler Schroeder), Tanya Žilinskas, Sumitra Singam, Jean-Luc Raharimanana (translated by Tom Tulloh), Arlene Tribbia, Addison Zeller, Mehdi M. Kashani, Katherine Elizabeth Seltzer, Jane Snyder, Charles O. Smith, Taro Williams, Joanna Theiss, Kirsten Kaschock, Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz, Steve Castro, Linda Wojtowick, and Ann Pedone.