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Story

The Forgetting of Water

Doug Rice

Mai struggles to experience the place of words in her body. The slow patience of her tongue, of her lips. The care she gives to each letter, the way each letter shapes her mouth. Each word changes her. This foreign tongue...
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Prime Directive

J. D. King

"Prime Directive," an illustration by JD King, the cover of Sensitive Skin #9.
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Art
Story

Sucker

Susan Scutti

I was walking along the south side of Houston, heading home from a friend’s house. I’d stopped by to pick up my copy of The Big Sleep, one of many loaned-and-borrowed books between us. I was living on Prince Street then...
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Comics

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick

R. Crumb

Shortly before his death, Philip K. Dick has what can only be described as a religious experience, which he described in, among other places, his novel Valis. In Weirdo #17, R. Crumb adapted Dick's story. Click the image ...
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Film

Short Eyes

Sir Andre Bemler

Miguel "Mikey" Piñero was born on December 19, 1946 in Gurabo, Puerto Rico. In 1950 he moved with his family to New York's Lower East Side. He was convicted of his first crime, theft, at 11, and was sent to juvenile detenti...
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Classics

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see ...
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Writing

Herbert Huncke: Letter to Dad

Herbert Huncke

Editor’s Note: This letter from Herbert Huncke to his Dad was first published in Peau Sensible, the print precursor to Sensitive Skin, in the summer of 1992. The issue also contained work by Joel Rose, Jack Micheline, Dari...
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Essay

Beer Mystic Burp #18: The Long Windy Road to a Closed Bar

bart plantenga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqEeL1QzGsc BEER MYSTIC: Read Beer Drink Novel: I thought by serving words in the name of beer & side effect mysticism would be repaid in not only the enchantment of words & the jo...
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Classics

The Veldt

Ray Bradbury

"George, I wish you'd look at the nursery.""What's wrong with it?""I don't know.""Well, then.""I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to look at it.""What would a psychologist want with a nurser...
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Story

The Nose

Nikolai Gogol

Part I On 25 March an unusually strange event occurred in St. Petersburg. For that morning Barber Ivan Yakovlevitch, a dweller on the Voznesensky Prospekt (his family name is lost now—it no longer figures on a signbo...
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Essay

THE THIRLWELL EFFECT

Díre McCain

Genuine virtuosos are a rare breed. They defy categorization simply by existing. Their visionary ingenuity radiates from their work in spades, and effortlessly so. It can come at a price, in terms of their creations being lo...
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Photographs

Punk Photographs

Ruby Ray

In the 1980s, through the early ’90s, I spent an awful lot of time travelling. Or maybe not travelling so much as running away. I was running away from this guy, this crazy guy who wanted to kill me. Finally, I realize...
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Story

The Soul of the Doll

Robert C. Hardin

Being the Recollections of a Late Inmate (1931–1946) of the Dalmarnock Asylum for Children in Glasgow, Scotland The eyes were what changed and flayed me above all else—the eyes or, rather, the doll’s eye...
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Story

Sick Lazy Fuck

Mark McCawley

“If you look a dog in the eye too intently, it may recite an astounding poem to you. You might have been mad for a long time and have realized it only at that moment.” —Jean Genet, Funeral Rites Si...
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Story

Guy Walks into a Bar circa 1997, Hollywood

Karen Lillis

So this guy walks into the bar last Thursday, and he sorta “lets it slip” that he’s Lawnchair Larry. This older guy, you know? He says it to me right before I’m gonna tell him what he owes me for a light draft. I...
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Sensitive Skin Books

King of the Fireflies

Rebecca Weiner Tompkins

A journey through landscapes: urban; rural; mythological; emotional; erotic; cultural; political; and spiritual.
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The Last Poet of the Village

A bilingual (Russian/English) edition of selected poems by Sergei Yesenin, translated by acclaimed Russian-American poet Anton Yakovlev.
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There’s Never Been A Better Time To Die

Bernard Meisler

A neo-noir meta satire of late-stage capitalism in Marin County featuring a hard-boiled realtor.
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Sensitive Skin Selected Writing 2016-2018

A selection of short stories, poems and essays published online from 2016-2018.
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Print Issues

Sensitive Skin 11

Featuring Arthur Nersesian, Celia Farber, Maggie Estep, Joshua Mohr, Marc Olmsted, Stephen Lack, Evelyn Bencicova, Sun Ra, Dîre McCain, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 12

April 2015 Poetry Special, featuring John S. Hall, Max Blagg, Emily XYZ, David Rattray, Jack Micheline, John Farris, Taylor Mead, Julie Torres, Winston Smith, Jean-Christian Bourcart, many more.
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Sensitive Skin 13

The crime issue, w/ criminally insane artists and writers like Peter Blauner, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Catherine Texier, Jonathan Shaw, Ron Kolm, Stewart Home, Julia Kissina, Alex Katz, many more.
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Previously, on Sensitive Skin!
7th and Q Shaw Photograph by Rick Piel
Street Photographs – Rick Piel
Rick Piel
I love looking at the world, especially cities, the way each neighborhood has its own look and feel. I can't paint, I'm a lousy poet. Photography is the perfect way to express my l...
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Rabo de Peixe
Thurston Moore
Rabo de Peixe What brings terror into your life nothing really It's a misunderstanding of nature A single plant of its own ...
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Invasion from the Chicken Planet
Invasion From The Chicken Planet
Steve Horowitz
A documentation of the Friday night performance of Steve Horowitz' musical composition on January 29, 2010 at REDCAT for 10 musicians, 4 actors, 2 singers and narrator. The video p...
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Excerpt From Lollapalooza Tour Diaries
Maggie Estep
Wed. August 24th, 1994, Phoenix, AZ. It's 120 degrees here and the sky is huge. In spite of the heat they seem to be big on poetry in Phoenix. I read 4 poems then almost passe...
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Doc's Clock Mike DeCapite
Doc’s Clock
Mike DeCapite
Doc’s Clock was a good place to get out of afternoon’s flare-up, when the sun over Mission Street was blazing toward some painful equipoise between day and night, and hung in a...
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