Dashboard Horus: A Bird's Eye View of the Universe

  Eric Lawson is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the story collection Circus Head (2023, Sybaritic Press) and the poetry collection Backseat Emperor (2023, 2 nd Avenue Press). His work has recently appeared in Ashes to Stardust: A David Bowie Tribute Anthology as well as Dark Onus Lit and Maudlin House . He is the writer and director of the short films The Socially Distant Murder Mystery and A Scardouche!!! Thanksgiving and hosts the video podcast Make Your Own Fun on YouTube. Granny Grumbly was a bonafide gunslinger when it came to bingo. With her hot pink  track suit, blue-tinged curly wig, dark sunglasses, and plastic visor embossed with the phrase  ‘Read ‘Em And Weep’—she was a sight to behold. A haunted vibe, some said. She always sat at table three, chair five. The last person who mistakenly sat in her seat  was elbowed in the throat and shoved onto the floor before the poor sap even knew what hit him.  Her Big Gulp cup from 7...

Matt McGee writes in the Los Angeles area. In 2022, his work has appeared in Gypsum Tales , Sweetycat Press and Red Penguin . His story ‘Evolution’ will appear in the upcoming David Bowie tribute in Sybaritic Press. When not typing, he drives around in rented cars and plays goalie in local hockey leagues . “Thing is, you don’t have to go really far to travel, you know? I mean, damn bro, we’re only going forty miles and this’ll be like a whole other planet! Yeah!”  Skippy had shouted this at ten minutes past midnight. He’d packed a cooler for the trip, not with snacks and a picnic blanket of course but four fat yellow IPA cans tucked behind Keller’s driver’s seat, like a little secret only they’d share for a night. He’d cheered and hoisted a fresh beer when Keller reluctantly turned the car toward a gentleman’s club five cities away. With sixty of his dollars in Keller’s bone dry gas tank and a cooler of Lagunitas on ice, they traveled along an empty freeway on a cool, damp Monda...