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09/06/2023

Howdy, friends! It's been a minute! Our EiC Robert James Russell wrote a letter explaining the hiatus CP is on, our decision to step away from Twitter for the moment, and what you can expect from us in the future.

Lots of love to you all. Stay safe out there. ♡

Dear Readers, Writers, Friends, and Family: As the Editor-in-Chief of CHEAP POP , I wanted to take a moment to address our current status and the challenges we’re facing as we navigate the ever-changing landscape of the literary world. First and foremost, I want to express my sincere gratitud

17/11/2022

"From our window, we witness the wilding. Friends. Neighbors. Thieves. The powerless suddenly powerful."

"Summer of '77" by Karen Crawford

It was a summer of sweltering heat. Of Studio 54. The Son of Sam. It was the Summer a city blacked out. The darkness came in one long wave, disappearing an iconic skyline along with it. And, for a moment, the neighborhood was still. The kind of still you see in movies before a big scare. When my sis

15/11/2022

"We dream to leave everything behind. Go to where the Statue of Liberty lives. Eat McDonald’s every day. We heard the streets were paved with freedom fries and Fort Knox gold."

"Amerikana" by Cherry Lou Sy

Steve tells Nancy Wheeler his Winnebago summer dreams: screaming kids, a map and an open road, American as apple pie. Then later he reveals that it’s always her with him by her side in that Winnebago. My ears catch that word, Winnebago , a gold nugget stuck in the sieve. Sounds so Uncle Sam. Stran

10/11/2022

“I spread epoxy with my fingertips and the fumes stain the air saccharine, and I breathe it in and hold it in my lungs and think that nothing this sweet could hurt me.”

We Build Things, We Fall Apart” by Selena Langner

When the tinnitus starts, it will sound like crickets. Soon, everything will be crickets, but I won’t mind, because it will remind me of my father, and it won’t matter that all the real crickets have been lost to paved-over streets, because I will carry them inside me. But for now, I am ten, and...

09/11/2022

"Maybe I was sixteen for just a moment too long. What was the bloom like that year; what kinds of flowers choked the hillside? Was it worth it, right up until they died?"

"Clover Honey" by Christine Barkley

Suddenly no one can stop talking about rebirth and renewal. Spring cleaning in attics, in basements; searching for fresher air and finding the windows stuck closed. The allergists are booked solid and so are the psychiatrists, but there is no treatment for this season’s disease. Everyone is drunk ...

03/11/2022

"Then a million different grievances poured from my mouth; real vitriol; I scared myself, the kind of things I said."

"Guest of a Guest of a Guest" by Christine Kwon

I was happy to hear from her, especially like that—desperate, lonely. Zahid wasn’t supposed to come for another two weeks and I was getting bored, even with the water and the fog and the abundance of berries. I invited her up. Holly came and everything looked different. &nb

01/11/2022

"...the only thing missing the sour green apple tree next door and oh, yes, the children, but it would be a while before she awoke to this as from twilight to dawn, from being comfortable not knowing to the searing truth..."

"That Other Family" by Morgan Harlow

She had thought of that family often, the dissolution complete even as she was daydreaming happily of its continued existence now she was grown up and starting her own family, or perhaps because of this, she could recreate the life of that family, the family she had taken to heart, the family she ha

25/10/2022

"I like the way your voice rings in my head all day, settling like a stain. My therapist says I’m attracted to competence, and somewhere along the way, competence got twisted to mean men."

"Bed Bugs" by Nicole Tsuno

I wake up, arms fat with red bumps. You tell me I should clean up, that there may be bed bugs. I like the way your voice rings in my head all day, settling like a stain. My therapist says I’m attracted to competence, and somewhere along the way, competence got twisted to mean men. &nb

20/10/2022

"Simon gets a tattoo of his initials in the middle of his tongue: SOS. I ask him if he ever felt the peeling of his old skin, his mouth once a chrysalis. Sydney cheats because her tongue is too special, and she can’t risk losing the ability to do her cherry-stem knot trick."

"Tongue Twisters" by Victoria Buitron

In order to join, people have to morph their tongues. Most pick the easiest: a piercing. No beatings or dares, just paying for pain. They live with Jiggly Puff, a glow-in-the-dark moon, or even a tiny Pepsi Crystal can piercing on their taste flesh. Maybe, eventually, a keloid. Simon gets a tattoo o

19/10/2022

“Papa cackles like a machine gun, crescendoing into a breathless cough. His smoke-addled lungs are giving out.”

“A Single Memory, Remembered Differently” by Sumitra Singam

Papa is in his wheelchair at the old picnic table. The lawn is overgrown, but we can just make out the beach past the yellowing lalang. The place is dusty, mildewed; like anything left for more than a week in the tropics. The kampung house creaks and groans its annoyance at us for the year

13/10/2022

"Everyone moves to St. Clair Shores where you can’t even be a band in your own garage. Where the people call the police."

"Harper Woods" by Elijah Sparkman

A Jolly Rancher flies through the sky and nails Cheesy Chaz in the face. He jump-stumbles off the float trailer and busts his knee on the Beaconsfield cement. It raspberries up: four times the size of a real-life raspberry. Major folds a pom-pom for his true love. Hot ashes simmer in a pot, the ghos

11/10/2022

"It leaned on your windows, clouds pressing against the glass; murmured about sunken treasures between the lines of late-night radio broadcasts."

"That One Time You Loved a Mermaid" by Laila Amado

That one time you loved a mermaid, the sea followed you everywhere. It leaned on your windows, clouds pressing against the glass; murmured about sunken treasures between the lines of late-night radio broadcasts. It roared in the road noise of a faraway highway, sloshed in the glasses of gin and to

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