TBQ Alternate Universe
Axel B. KolcowAxel 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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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