Writer: Frank Reardon

Billy’s Room

Moans from the Condiment Fridge by Frank Reardon

{Aug 12, 2025}

I put myself underneath the covers and rested my head on the one speaker and let the vocals and instruments hold me, tell me that they loved me. I was seventeen when I found that radio in the garbage, and it took me back to when I discovered music in my Uncle Billy’s room.… more

Curtis Ippolito

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Aug 1, 2025}

I didn’t set out to shock anyone with the sexual abuse; but I also knew it was my job to be honest there, report on the atrocities or else I don’t think Marcus’ motives as an adult would have rung true.… more

William Taylor Jr.

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Jul 25, 2025}

I’d look out my window at 2 a.m. and there’d be some guy just sitting in his car and crying, and a few feet away there were some homeless folk whacked out of their minds on something, fucking on the sidewalk, all the tech bros spilling out of the bars, roving around in howling packs.… more

Nick Kolakowski

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Jul 11, 2025}

I’ve spent my life obsessed with the contrast between Hollywood’s glitz and its gritty underbelly. I see it as a microcosm of America itself: we’re always selling an image of what we are, but that image is secured with blood and plunder.… more

SOFT ROCK DENIM

Moans from the Condiment Fridge by Frank Reardon

{Jul 4, 2025}

Henley says, “This Frank guy might hate me in the year 2025, but he sure as shit will have to listen to me for eternity. Smooth, my brothers, smooth like my Denim.”… more

JEN JOHANS

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Jun 27, 2025}

I was that weirdo whose first film crush was on Robert De Niro in MIDNIGHT RUN around the same time that everyone else my age were all about the guys from BEVERLY HILLS 90210. Not too many kids in 4th or 5th grade got excited to ID character actors like Willem Dafoe, Forest Whitaker, & Joe Mantegna in movies but I did.… more

JONATHAN EVISON

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{May 27, 2025}

At the end of the day, our struggles define us as much as anything else. I think the people who are most content are the people who have struggled and overcome the most. There’s more value in things that don’t come easy.… more

GATEWAY TO NIRVANA

Moans from the Condiment Fridge by Frank Reardon

{May 18, 2025}

The humor, the hatred of day jobs, the drinking, the gambling on life, the madness of the grind, giving away your soul for pennies on the dollar, I knew that world. I lived in that world.… more

Henry Wise

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{May 12, 2025}

I realized that language can be more than the vehicle for a story; it can be the lens through which the reader sees the world. For me, the cadence of the language came to mirror the setting of Euphoria County—with its mysterious flora, its snaking roads, and its trapped secrets.… more

K.T. NGUYEN

BULL Interview by Frank Reardon

{Mar 15, 2025}

The trauma of war can ripple across generations and bleed through borders. You can arrive in the United States or come back home to the United States, but you’ve left a piece of your sanity behind.… more

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