Luke O'Neil

Oct 22, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil

“Do you know why I hate Hamas?” a man named Hai Bar-El told the Financial Times in a recent piece on how hard the last year has been for Israelis. “I hate Hamas because it forces my children to kill Palestinian children.” It feels like an extraordinary thing to say but it's not. It's foundational. It calls to mind the old Golda Meir quote.

Oct 19, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Rax King |Luke O'Neil

Today Rax King returns to write about the film Anora. Previously she wrote for Hell World about wanting and sobriety, expensive wedding traditions, the film Priscilla, Lana Del Rey's Born to Die, the band Creed, and her favorite Weezer songsHelp pay for our great contributors with a subscription if you can afford to please and thank you. Supporting independent media is good. I also have a few more free subscriptions to give out thanks to a couple generous readers so let me know if you want one.

Oct 16, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil

I saw a video of a man being burned alive in a hospital tent. The IV still attached to his arm. Someone was trying to heal him and someone was trying to harm him and the latter won out in that contest as they almost always do. Murder being so much quicker and easier than medicine. By the latter someone I mean Israel and the United States of course. That goes without saying. The most prolific exporter of terror around the globe for longer than I've been alive and our unhinged henchman.

Oct 7, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Luke O'Neil

Every day for the past year I have spent my waking hours in an aghast sort of stupor. Thinking: no one is arriving to stop this? Surprised anew. Still no one? Not even after this? Or this? Or this? And then I resign myself to that grim fact and wake up the next day and start the process all over again. In between those moments I go about living my normal life untouched by war or famine or disease. The life of a fucking king. Suffering no injury that I have not conspired against myself.

Sep 21, 2024 | welcometohellworld.com | Jake Romm |Luke O'Neil

I have six new shorts and poems up at Flaming Hydra this week. Unforeseen DifficultiesFiction by Luke O’Neil The guilt He was in the garage jigsaw-puzzling the architecture of the bones. After some doing he looked upon his works and thought well that’s spooky. Nothing crazy but still. He rifled through the boxes and coolers of bullshit he had stashed out here fromPaid Hell World subscribers can read a couple of them down below. Here's an even newer one.