Skip to content
Photograph by Michelle Gemma
  • Text
  • Visual
  • Music
    • Select All Music Posts
    • 17 Relics
    • Delta of Venus
    • Ellery Twining
    • Highlighter
    • Incessant Pop Group
    • Low-Beam
    • Luke Hunter
    • Magpie
    • Portersville
    • Seratonin
    • Sodium Lights
    • Tarbox
    • Trapezium
  • Publications
    • Chez Depot
    • Mason’s Stoup
      • Mason’s Stoup 1
      • Mason’s Stoup 2
      • Mason’s Stoup 3
      • Mason’s Stoup 4
      • Mason’s Stoup 5
      • Mason’s Stoup 6
      • Mason’s Stoup 7 [turn up the gain]
      • Mason’s Stoup 7 [the vernal explosion]
      • Mason’s Stoup 9
      • Mason’s Stoup 10
      • Mason’s Stoup Contributors
    • Root of Twinkle
    • THIS IS NOT SLANDER
    • Whispers
  • Root of Twinkle

The Bell Jar

  • by michelle gemma

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and
I didn’t know what I was doing in New York. I’m stupid about executions. The idea of
being electrocuted makes me sick, and that’s all there was to read about in the papers —
goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanutsmelling mouth of every subway.
… Continue Reading...

A Tarbox Design © 2022 -- All Art Copyrighted by Respective Artists -- All Rights Reserved