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The Bel Esprit Project, co. est. 2020
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MARCH 2025
ISSUE 55
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Nimic Review: Father Time
Yorgos Lanthimos’ darkly comedic short, Nimic, follows a professional cellist and family man who has a bizarre encounter on the train: a...

Monoliths
Smoke of fire swam toward the surface of the sky like some massive man o' war trapped in a harbor where it didn’t belong, as people, not...

To Carry After
I have seen rage: that stubborn anchor holding you to port. Depart, depart and drift forth gently toward the stars. By Jacob Ian DeCoursey

Where’s the news?
I don’t want to hear about war. I don’t want to hear of irrational leadership Where is the news that I desire? The news that I need? What...

Memorial Day/Main Street USA
The murmur of a May morning. Flashing Lights. A far-off drum roll. Wars beyond the reach of time. The High School Marching Band. This Is...

Treasure Hunt
By Tim Dodge The gold-skinned android said, "Master Yeager, I fail to understand the purpose of this excursion." "Can't say that I get...

The Shuddering Shuffling Feeling
Flexibly laminated thick orbicular- cornered papers fly fleeing my fingers queens, twos, fives, into the feather-thin vacancies they...

Confidence
"You sure have the confidence of someone bigger than your actual size," my 5-foot, 10-inch 16-year-old kid said last night. Our family is...

Piss stick
He flipped me the bird before driving away En route To a rest stop where I once gave another man head And it’s strange to see that car...
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