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TBQ Alternate Universe

Axel B. Kolcow

Axel B. Kolcow is a writer, artist, performer, & guy. He is the Deputy Editor of Taco Bell Quarterly. The TBQ Alternate Universe is here to further connect the TBQ community and to help each other create & maintain sustainable artistic practices.

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Ugly Drafts

I’m coming off ten weeks of exchanging ten short stories with my art wife and boy are my arms tired.

Next up, we’re working on novels and I am scared shitless. This week, we assigned ourselves outlines. My draft is feeling drafty and my i...

3 months ago
2

Reviewing My 2025 Mantras


shitting and farting

My very first mantra for the year was a Rabelaisian reminder to myself to keep it simple. It is natural to take fat shits and to fart like heaven’s trumpets on judgement day. This year, I made an effort to dig...

5 months ago
5

"The world is not what I think, but what I live through."

I’m getting really into phenomenology, which is a branch of philosophy concerned with, among other things, experience and how our experience shapes our sense of reality.

Something that’s been sticking in my mind’s teeth ever since my 2024...

5 months ago
3

New Chapbook Out!

I wrote an erotic poem I was so proud of I had to build a chapbook around it and release it immediately.

It’s called Poems I Wrote So You’d Fuck Me and it’s $10.

It includes my poem “Why I Am Bisexual” from HAD, it includes a never-publi...

9 months ago
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4

I got married!

I became somebody’s husband on June 07th, 2025. Coincidentally, it’s also Prince’s birthday.

Every time I run into someone now they ask me, “How’s married life?” It’s swell. It’s no different from unmarried life really except that I find r...

10 months ago
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