PRL Serials

  • Down Bad (Dreamville, JID, J. Cole, Bas, EarthGang, Young Nudy) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    They were together when they died. They died almost simultaneously, and they became aware in the afterlife at the exact same time. “What is happening?” Gustavo asked in the rough way that he talked. “We were in bed,” Andre said, “that’s the last thing I remember.” “Where are we?” Gustavo asked, looking around them with…

  • Owner’s Panel – Electricity Sonnets

    Always on to keep the halls bright, ever Lighted for whose sake? Modern convenience And expectations of occupied, off Limits to intruders’ intrusions, the  Idea being that light wards off bad Things on the Owner’s Panel do protect  Everything inside, somethings inside Are not meant to guard against intrusion They are tasked for specific duties…

  • Issue 3, Vol. 1 – June 30, 2021

    You’re back, we’re back, let’s enjoy some serials, shall we?  I’ve been buying actual comic books because I want to support the stories that I think are interesting and I think I want to make some wall art out of some of them eventually. I’ve been reading Al Ewing’s Guardians of the Galaxy and I…

  • Someone Else’s Dream (Absofacto, Trinix) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    I imagined that I looked beautiful through his eyes. I wanted that. But only for him. To everyone else, I wanted to be a man. I wanted to be tall and intimidating, the type of guy you shouldn’t make eye contact with. The guy you’d be scared to realize was walking behind you late at…

  • Issue 2, Vol. 1 – June 23, 2021

    Welcome back, dear readers! Has it really been a week already? Time flies when you’re having fun, and we here at the PRL are having a grand ole time bringing you stories about and inspired by our dreams.  I have to say that since the election, and the treasonous chaos on January 6 at the…

  • Tribe (Jim Swim) – Shuffle – Playlist 1

    You spent weeks trimming trees in your yard in the cool, early spring. There are a lot of different types of trees in your yard; the pecan and blackberry trees along one side of the house that separates you from your neighbor, the red plum tree that used to provide shade in the middle of…

  • Ohm’s Fried Chicken – Electricity Sonnets

    The shock is bright enough to still Grown men tremble at 16 volts: Let go! Isn’t possible, instead, body bright To light crispy chicken tender on feet Immobile, ready meal for the hungry Ohm’s Fried Chicken, open 7 days a Week; volts begat weak amps begat current The likes of which a large man is…

  • Colors – Electricity Sonnets

    The world is a rainbow, as are circuits Behind your walls that make the power veins Bringing your home to electrical life It takes all kinds to avoid a dark world Red and black and yellow and white, orange  Maybe, there’s too many to remember It makes something bigger than the standard Roy GB issue…

  • Issue 1, Vol. 1 – June 16, 2021

    This summer, we want to have fun. What’s more fun than indulging fantasy? Our answer here at the PRL is not many things are more fun – and as ubiquitous – as dreams. We dream when we sleep, and then slip into them during the waking hours. Falling into fantasy is experience away from the…

  • PRL Vol 1 Coming Soon…

    The PRL Serials will be back this summer and dear readers, you will not want to miss what we have in store. Volumes I through VI chronicled the epic tales of the Heroes of the Hyperion Universe, and the Alia reset all of that reality last summer. So what can you expect from Volume 1?…