________ Asher Bentley is a writer and director, frequently working under the moniker of Dead Homes. His work delves into his predominantly digital upbringing and the sterility of contemporary relationships. He has been published in Spectra and Burial Magazine, and is also really funny and charming. Asher Bentley is on X @pregnantcop and Instagram @asherhilarious asherforever.com

URNS CHAPTER 1 VEGA before the void emptiness and dross lined the river’s edge you were reading freud hardly there what i avoid gathers in like faces in family portraits i’d not seen myself before forged stars unseen in a sequence of blighted leaves David woke up coughing, but continued lying in bed, listening to the cicadas. He’d just moved in with his older sister from his aunt’s project apartment, along with his mom. He stood and turned off the whirring, stationary fa