How does one know when they’ve fallen in love? Is it my heart twisting when I think about you? And i’ve always said that making you laugh fucks me up …
-Amanda E.K., Suspect Press editor-in-chief I was working as an assistant preschool teacher when I approached the Suspect Press table at the inaugural DiNK in spring 2016. I’d discovered the …
by Brittany Ballard ***Trigger Warning*** Dear Mom, -Please stop telling me about your nightmares of my kids dying. -I want you to hold our hugs for longer. -I hate your …
By Paul Bindel Art by Lonnie MF Allen For centuries, creative people have often wondered—mostly in their own minds— “Am I really an artist? A writer? A musician? Or merely …
By Paul Bindel Love or hate resolutions, now is the time most of the Western world pauses to plan and reflect. What will your next step be? Whether you need …
by Amanda E.K. For our winter issue, I sat down with Rose Kalasz and Tory Johnson—the owners of Denver’s only independent and woman-owned adult novelty store, Awakening Boutique—to talk about …
by Padideh Aghanoury “Just use a tampon,” said Lindsay, my high school swim coach after I told her I couldn’t practice. My mom…won’t let me. She’s Muslim, I explained, hopeless …
By Paul Bindel Previous installments of these lists focused on specific pots of money, but being an artist is full of risks, and the trouble with risk is that it’s …
By Paul Bindel In keeping with the theme of this issue, I wanted to start with horror, but why invent a scary story when Denver designers, writers, filmmakers, architects and …
By Kelly Shortandqueer A zine—derived from magazine—is an independently or self-published booklet, often created by a single person. Zines are customarily created by physically cutting and gluing text and images …
By Paul Bindel In 2010, at the height of the recession, when a friend admitted to considering grad school for literature, I begged him to turn around. Of course, I’d …
By Josiah Hesse Photo by Tom Murphy For anyone that remembers pre-gentrification, pre-legal weed Denver, the all-ages, DIY venue Rhinoceropolis was the beating heart of our city’s underground art scene. …
