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"Sammy Go Round" by Julie Mason



WORDS FOR NERDS BY NERDS!

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"Tension" by KJ Hannah Greenberg
Issue #16:   Trying To Get Into The Good Place One Pop Poem At A Time

POETRY

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JUSTIN DAVIS
Still Brazy
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CHRISTOPHER ROSE
black boy in moshpit
Stage Dive
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ANNAKA SAARI
Mansley's Making
Would You Stay With Me Tonight?
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DONNA VORREYER
NIN: Show 20, Age 55
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AEON GINSBERG
Body Dysmorphia Hidden In The Leaves
POEM IN WHICH I TRANSITION TO THE TUNE OF BIG KRIT’S KING OF THE SOUTH AS READ BY MARY SHELLEY
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ALISON KRONSTADT
In Defense of Rose from Titanic
Meredith Grey Talks To Her Younger Self About Love
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TAMER MOSTAFA
My Grandmother Would Have Loved Chick-fil-A
The Night Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Reunited
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​RYAN JONES
killmonger, t’challa and I make a song
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ANDRE DE LEON
Remakes
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​CHELSEA BODNAR
lonely deadgirl seeks unkillable love interest
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AMOJA SUMLER
Furiosa’s Forebear
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THANH BUI
Sad things / I don’t know / who to share with
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ADAM FORD
The Great Rocketeers Revival!
- after ROM #22, September 1981
Peril, Thy Name is Plunderer!
- after ROM: Spaceknight #13, December 1980
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DANIEL NESTER
Road House Monologue
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E. KRISTIN ANDERSON
Ill and Down, The Honey Heart
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DAVID VILLAVERDE
On Watching the 158th Consecutive Episode of House

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CLAIRE DOCKERY
In Which Abigail Snacks On Rocks
Penny tries to hate her mother
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STEPHANIE TOM
After Reading About Totoro as The Angel of Death
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RICH BOUCHER
Sad To The Bone
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KELLY R. SAMUELS
On Deadwood and Widows and Wanting
On Deadwood and Seeing Enemies Where There Are None
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KAYLA BELL
Raise Me From Perdition

FICTION-ISH

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ALEXANDER B. JOY
Balloon Fight, 1998

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JESSE SENSIBAR
Baltimore Jazz Freestyle
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GEORGE HOOK
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Spring Ahead
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LESLIE SOULE
Bitcoin Star-Chaser


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by Mikkel Snyder
   
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​We here at FreezeRay love nerd content in all forms. We love poetry and fanfiction and videos, but this month we wanted to talk about a particular artform that one of our editors has rediscovered: Zining!

We once again have scoured the internet for more pop culture soaked poetry videos and the internet was there for us.  And check out all the poems we've already featured...by NERD CATEGORY!   It's like being at a Nerd Slam without any of the stress of competition!  Click RIGHT HERE for all the newest, latest, and nerdiest verse!

Newly added:
-Alex Luu - "Hollywood Directs Mulan"
-Kevin Kantor - "The Academy Wishes To Nominate Kevin Kantor"
-Gigi Bella - "Lessons I Learned From Selena"
Omar Holmon - "Jesus Christ Super Toaster"
-YaKuZa - "Black Nerd Problems
-Adrienne Novy - "The Pop Punk Bible"
​-Julia Gaskill - "Donald Trump Visits Sesame Street"
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CHR!S REEL

CHR!S REEL, born in the year of The Rabbit and based in Atlanta, is a visual artist working in the mediums of photography, graphic arts and film. Being educated in the fine arts by earning a BFA from Georgia State University and his MFA from Parsons The New School for Design; he feels that knowing the history of photography and other various artistic mediums, is essential to his creative process. He has shown work locally, nationally and internationally. The basis of his work is producing work out of Mylar balloons, which celebrates idealism and surrealism while drawing the viewer into the possibility of a ironic perspective. 

Benedictions,
CHR!S REEL / @thereelchris
https://chrisreel.com

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DAVE SIMS

After 30+ years of teaching writing and literature in colleges, universities, military bases, and prisons from Alaska to Louisiana, Dave Sims retired to the mountains of central Pennsylvania where he now dwells and creates. His recent comix appear in the Nashville Review, Gigantic Sequins and Talking Writing. He can be reached at tincansims@gmail.com.

 Sapphire Sheherzad hanif

Sapphire Sheherzad Hanif is a young artist who works in traditional and digital mediums. She has earned an Associate's in from Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut, her home state. Her paintings mainly  consists of colorful landscapes and, featured in this issue, fantastical females.

J.E. CRUm

J.E. Crum is a contemporary fantasy artist who creates intensely vivid works using the method of automatism. Crum enjoys creating variations of the self-portrait using a variety of experiments in painting and drawing, often inspired by mythological stories. 
The artist finds the art-making process to be a journey of self-discovery; she enjoys being lost in the aesthetic experience itself. J.E. works intuitively, as she develops work that she interprets to become personal narratives related to her personal views and thoughts about fate, destiny and the meaning of her dreams. 

J.E. Crum also enjoys working full-time in a fast-paced career as an elementary art teacher where the artist currently teaches nearly 1,000 children a week in central Pennsylvania. Crum shows her work in a variety of exhibitions. She has donated her art for charity events, such as to help the homeless. The artist also curates art shows for her many students throughout the school year to bring art-enriching opportunities to children in the rural communities where she is an educator. J.E. enjoys making others happy through the power of art; she may be contacted at crum2298@yahoo.com or you may view informal photos of her artworks and posts about upcoming exhibitions on http://www.facebook.com/je.crum.714 .




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