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Something’s missing… Your keys? Your wife? Your punctuation? Your sanity? Your main character? Stolen, lost, trapped in the void, or maybe it was never there in the first place … Somewhere, somehow, something’s missing.
Celebrating Valentine’s Day 2020 with poetry, prose, and art.
Produced by seven secret Susquehanna agents in the Literary Journalism Publishing and Editing Practicum class with the help of BarrelHouse editor Dave Housley. We have worked together nonstop to get this issue up and out in just seven weeks. How we did it will remain our secret.
Throughout this special issue, you’ll encounter a spectrum of villains that you didn’t see coming: a beard, an inner demon, a man who wants to bring his wife back from the dead. Dive into a kingdom only a few inches tall. Find out how a bird can be a villain. Explore all different kinds of villains, from lovers to henchmen to middle school boys.
Everything Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos, any and all autumnal celebrations of the dark and mysterious. Ghouls, banshees, the time you played Bloody Mary in your grade school bathroom, and we guess like David S Pumpkins if he’s still a thing for you
Even though we would all probably agree that no mere human language can adequately capture the spectacle and dazzling phenomenon that was David Bowie, we writers can't help but try.
Asuper-star’s send-off, a backstage pass to our most private moments of praise, celebration and deep, indelible loss. In this glitter-bombed collection, 25 poets, essayists and visual artists come together to consider how His Purple Badness taught us to be various, mysterious and outrageous. In short, human.
Celebrating real or imagined Weird Love, Bad Love, Awkward Love, Dress Up in Your Date’s Mother’s Wedding Dress Love.
They are our arch-nemeses and petty heroes, a Bizarro fugue state that can nurture our aspirations and harbor the roots of our obsessions. Or maybe that’s just us, but judging by the amazing submissions for this issue, we’re not the only ones who feel this way.
People have expressed surprise that I, an English professor, a mother of three, and a fiction writer, grew up watching professional wrestling.
Um, who didn't? Barrelhouse might lay the smackdown on anyone who claims otherwise.
I think it's cute when people make a special move to inform themselves about politics. When being informed about the state of the country and the world requires an investment of their time.
The theme of this – the first online issue of Barrelhouse – is superheroes