AwkwardSD

Later Fees: a new zine about working in video rental stores

Featuring authors Emily Costa, Kirsti MacKenzie and me

Oct 4 • 

Ryan Bradford

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September 2025

Look at this POS.

I’m done with cordless vacuums. Plus, some cool school projects that I could use help funding.

Sep 7 • 

Ryan Bradford

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August 2025

An ode to Dirtbag Summer™

Or, how I spent my summer vacation.

Aug 10 • 

Ryan Bradford

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July 2025

Pizza Biz: Pizza Hall of Shame

Remembering when Pizza Hut hired the grossest man to sell their grossest invention

Jul 22 • 

Ryan Bradford

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Trolling, as a treat

Finding some much-needed joy in the CA State Assembly's treatment of Carl DeMaio

Jul 3 • 

Ryan Bradford

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June 2025

All is fair in fair and war

Falling out of love with Collective Soul, Live, and the San Diego County Fair

Jun 30 • 

Ryan Bradford

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The Unauthorized Serial Novelization of the 1994 Film, The Mask (pt. 5)

The Mask: not big on consent

Jun 18 • 

Ryan Bradford

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May 2025

Kevin Kearney’s ridescare

The author and Small Press Nite founder introduces us to a sinister new Uber in his thrilling novel, Freelance

May 28 • 

Ryan Bradford

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Pizza Biz: Great pizza moments in cinematic history

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

May 20 • 

Ryan Bradford

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Gun Heaven

I have a new (very) short story up at Rejection Letters magazine called “Gun Heaven.” It’s about a gun that dies.

May 7 • 

Ryan Bradford

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April 2025

To live and die and die and die again in LA

Sacrificing myself to Disneyland, AWP, Jumbo’s Clown Room and parking meters

Apr 10 • 

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March 2025

Is this band good: Primus

A regular feature where we—using scientific, circumstantial, and anecdotal evidence—determine once and for all whether a band is good

Mar 31 • 

Ryan Bradford

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