Manifest Destiny and A Lesson in Abstraction/Distraction – 2020 Time Capsule by Ashley M. Jones
September 23, 2021
Manifest Destiny and so he learned that the land could be called a name so he called it mine.and so…
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Alternate Names for My Children by Nikki Wallschlaeger
September 20, 2021
1. baby bean 2. baby pie 3. pretty baby 4. baby fish 5. baby love 6. bean pie 7. bean…
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Face Reading by Travis Chi Wing Lau
September 17, 2021
Two fingers can turnwith ease to violence: some things must not bepermitted to grow, so I weed with the white…
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Excerpt: D.W. Hogan’s UNBROKEN BONDS
September 17, 2021
By D.W. Hogan Mary watched at a distance as new girls arrived to fill the beds once occupied by her…
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One Question: D.W. Hogan
September 17, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked D.W. Hogan, author of Unbroken Bonds, “What are you hoping to accomplish by telling the fictional story about four…
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Four Snakes Makes Our Flag: Three Sonnets by C.T. Salazar
September 13, 2021
Four Snakes Makes Our Flag Said swallowtail and we butterflied. Saidthere’s nothing to fight for and all the guns broke.Said…
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Nine Years Later We Ride an ATV out in the Country by Kwoya Fagin Maples
September 9, 2021
a dark worry between your eyes, pulling thehelmet over my head—still worried I might get hurt—leave us—you alone with our…
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Dear Ms. Sahar :: Letter Between Translations by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
September 6, 2021
We argue how to say where we’regoing. Home is the only translationI can accept. She counters that the word I…
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Excerpt: Spencer Fleury’s HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE
September 2, 2021
By Spencer Fleury Nicole Before we start, I think you should know that I am not the sort of person…
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Everyone Is Smiling by Rebecca Reynolds
September 2, 2021
At low tide, Scylla is a silent, blue mound rising from the beach. Ollie and JJ follow you closer, dragging…
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One Question: Spencer Fleury
September 2, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Spencer Fleury, author of How I’m Spending My Afterlife, “Neither of the main characters in your book…
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Writing to Fill In the Blanks: An Interview with Ana Castillo
August 31, 2021
Interview by Jael Montellano There is something about Ana Castillo’s latest poetry collection, My Book of the Dead, that has…
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Solutions to Love by Rachel Stempel
August 30, 2021
I’ve a dentist appointment lurking on the horizon like a knitting needle in plush carpet. I’m very in tune with…
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Excerpt: Grace Agnew’s SANCTUARY
August 27, 2021
By Grace Agnew On her second day of walking, Miranda saw clouds hardening into mountains that leaned ominously as if…
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One Question: Grace Agnew
August 27, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Grace Agnew, author of Sanctuary, “What is the point of writing about climate change when there is…
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Before the Devil Even Knows You’re There by Penny Milam
August 27, 2021
Maybe his lean, pocked face, camouflage cap, and plaid flannel under butterscotch Carhartt overalls didn’t suggest it, but Mason Granger…
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Fiction by Sudha Balagopal
August 23, 2021
Happy Birthday Myra pushes the grocery cart past her husband’s favorite crucifers, cabbage and kale, glowing like emeralds. She propels…
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Scales by Angela Panayotopulos
August 19, 2021
You notice it in the shower, which is where we most often notice strange things about our bodies. It doesn’t…
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Soft Spot by Aisling Kearney
August 9, 2021
A restaurant three flights up overlooks the flowing mass of gawking tourists in Temple Bar. A woman waits in a…
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Security by MJ Hernandez
August 6, 2021
Content Warning: suicide    OCTOBER 27, 2017, WITNESS STATEMENT OF OLIVER SCHMIDT (PART 1) Everything began to unravel the day Fred…
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How to Live with an Alcoholic Husband by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar
August 2, 2021
When he vomits blood, help him into the backseat of your car, and drive him to the hospital. When he…
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Friend of the Devil by Mort Milder
July 29, 2021
In 1971, when I was seventeen, I hitchhiked from St. Louis to San Francisco, hoping to join the Merry Pranksters…
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“and Mister George Eastman once told me to embrace light, admire it, love it,” & Lookers by Cate McGowan
July 26, 2021
“and Mister George Eastman once told me to embrace light, admire it, love it” but above all, know light,* so…
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Gentle Battleground by Dipika Mukherjee
July 22, 2021
Content Warning: suicide When Mita was fifteen, her best friend had climbed on a chair, thrown a nylon sari over…
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Art and the State: An Interview with Dariel Suarez
June 10, 2021
By Tanushree Baidya Author Dariel Suarez immigrated to the United States from Cuba as a young teenager. Moved with unearthing…
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Excerpt: Sadie Hoagland’s STRANGE CHILDREN
May 18, 2021
By Sadie Hoagland Cadence   When that first baby died inside me and I had to give birth to its…
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One Question: Sadie Hoagland
May 18, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asks Sadie Hoagland, whose novel Strange Children releases today, “Why was the choice of telling this coming-of-age story…
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Sirens and Selkies: An Interview with Jaimee Wriston
May 12, 2021
By Anita Gill I came across this quote by writer Sarah Dessen: “Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static,…
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One Question: Dani Putney
May 7, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Dani Putney, author of Salamat sa Intersectionality, “Why did you decide to use the word ‘intersectionality’ in…
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Excerpt: Dani Putney’s SALAMAT SA INTERSECTIONALITY
May 7, 2021
By Dani Putney Pearls It happens after Mamma Mia! for the fifth time:   I place my cock in hand’s…
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