I was invited to appear on a second episode of Let’s Take a Moment with Billy McCall and Luz Mason. This time we were joined by Missy Kulik of Secret Picnic Spot. The four of us reviewed the split zine Brush Your Teeth With Whiskey/Yard Wide Yarns, a zine I absolutely loved. Ended up being a lot of fun! Check it out on YouTube here.

Zine review of Make All Our Dreams Come True by Billy McCall over on the Behind the Zines Distro etsy page.

“Krystle’s zines are as raw and real as they come, and this one here is another example an author just laying it all out for the world to see. She bares her soul, she bleeds onto the pages, willing to tell her life story as authentically as anyone can. That’s easy to do when things have gone well, but not so easy when recalling past trauma, of which she has plenty.

This emotional perzine tells about her struggles of moving from Chicago to Milwaukee. Troubles at work, troubles with landlords, and, worst of all, troubles with her husband. All of this happened years ago, but the stories of heartache were real enough to cause me to feel legitimately angry at someone I never met. “He did WHAT!? Man, fuck that guy!” Krystle manages to write about tough times without romanticizing or exaggerating them. A lot of authors almost make it seem fun to be broke, fun to be addicted, fun to be out of work, but Krystle doesn’t do that. She handles every difficult situation with a proud Midwestern determination and somehow manages to keep moving, keep fighting. This is what real life looks like.”