by Megan Giddings

via Ghost Ocean

Album cover and back I made for a local band called ‘Funeral Students’. It’s their debut album, ‘Ghost Ocean’.

Feel free to check out their stuff! They are self described as grunge/ punk/ blues/ emo (and itty bitty of funk) band. They worked super hard and even made giant banners of the cover of the album.

In Ghost Ocean’s newest and nineteenth (!) issue, I interviewed the lovely Wren Hanks about their latest chapbook and queer myth-making, C.J. Opperthauser reviewed recent Rose Metal Press book The Voyager Record, and a handful of poets and prose writers gave us their breathtaking original work, a taste of which you’ll find below:

“what does dark matter not touch inside” -John Fry

“we can make anything a heaven / by naming it” -Ting Gou

“I would rather be quiet than wrong.” -Sara Wainscott

“This solitude was the beginning of starvation” -Travis A Sharp

“Even his blue contacts fell into the darkness, rejecting him.” -Timothy Moore

“Our bodies / are similar sisters // from the same / northern constellation” -JenMarie Macdonald

“It’s the kind of look I haven’t seen on a not-drunk person’s face since elementary school.” -Megan Giddings

“We'll both have ham radios and talk in what we assume is the night.” -Christopher Citro & Dustin Nightingale

My short fiction, Suicide Birds, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My first ever.