Free Zine Friday #5: Audio Zine edition

Sometimes on Friday I highlight a few zines I love that are free to read! For more free zines, check out my big free zines page.

Bound
by Bethany Fortner

This is such a special zine. It’s a beautiful fairytale about a unicorn, a late bloomer named Philomena who desperately wishes for her horn to grow in, and seeks help from a wizard in the woods. It’s about shame and feeling vulnerable and the status quo and loneliness. You can hear in the author’s voice just how deep and personal the story is–like the best fairytales, it is so intensely familiar and relatable that it gives you lessons you didn’t know you needed.

17 minutes. Physical copies available

The F Word
by Nyx

A big fun zine all about “fuck”, our favorite swear word! Nyx analyzes what it is about the word “fuck” that makes it so satisfying and versatile. Learn about the history, grammatical flexibility, and capacity for emphasizing, and more that makes fuck such a great fucking swear. Warning: swearing. (Duh).

12 minutes.

The Sisterhood of the Living Dead
by Maggie Grimason

CW for grief, descriptions of sex, & animal and human death. “The desert is dust, and so am I.” This zine is intense but really moving. It’s like a collage of memories linked together by the central theme of life and death. Maggie shares deep dark stories of seeing ghosts, fascination with bones, grieving her dad, empty relationships, and finding herself in the deserts of the southwest. Poetic and beautiful, a winding trail of thoughts and lives past.

29 minutes. More of Maggie’s writing here.