One Question: Christine Hume
January 1, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Christine Hume, author of The Saturation Project, “What do the three long essays in Saturation Project do together that…
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Pozole by Elly Rivera
December 20, 2020
You jolt awake, your eyes adjusting to the darkness and your breath easing into a slow, steady rhythm. You roll…
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A Sunday in Los Angeles by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
For Steven Amato After a long sickness, or months paused onthose last words of a friend’s before they were gone,…
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The last mile home by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
We are talking now of a summer night in Mainewhen I would be astonished for the last timehow the voices…
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To James Wright by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
I drive four states to visit the Martins Ferryyou gave me; the one I’ve always thought ofas a kind of…
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The Lantern by Sean Sutherland
December 20, 2020
How to know there will only be a once, an only time;I stand in the little parking lot with the…
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House Keys by Laura Zera
December 20, 2020
Every couple of years for the last fifteen or so, I’ve pulled a single key from my desk drawer and…
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Houses on the Water by Bahiyyih El-Shabbaz
December 20, 2020
All of my school friends live on one exact same block. All five of them. They live in old, enormous…
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Solar Winds by Gwendolyn Paradice
December 20, 2020
This is what I don’t like about astronomy: what you see through the telescope is nothing like the photographs. Tonight, there…
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Last Christmas, 2019 by Katie Darby Mullins
December 20, 2020
Every year for the last five, I’ve played an international game that has steadily grown into a phenomenon online: Whamageddon.…
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Battle-Axe Day by Virginia Bell
December 20, 2020
The cat was watching me even before the phone rang. It startled us both. I had been on the floor,…
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Souvenirs From Manzanar by Miyako Pleines
December 20, 2020
My mother and I visited Manzanar in the summer. We raised our cameras to everything we saw. Our first stop was…
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Kitchens, Sinking by Theresa Doolittle
December 20, 2020
1. The kitchen is the heart of the home, and I remember the day my parents tore ours out. It…
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Marriage: A Grammar Exercise by Melissa Grunow
December 19, 2020
I wanted to bolt on my wedding day. “Bolt” as in to run, not “bolt” as in to secure two…
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The Derby by Giovanni Rojas
December 19, 2020
When Amado arrived with his father at the cockfighting derby in some Texan forest somewhere, he was eager to stake…
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Good Vibrations by Rémy Ngamije
December 19, 2020
Here’s  a  key  for  the  timeline: before heartbreak (BHB); during heartbreak (DHB); tentatively, after heartbreak (AHB); and nothing happened (NH).…
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A Little Peace and Quiet by Justin Permenter
December 19, 2020
It was a perfect morning to be on the water. A gentle wind soughed and sighed across the face of…
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Girls on the Bus by J Saler Drees
December 19, 2020
Dehlia and I bonded over making fun of Lexus. She was beyond fat. Think enormous to the point that she stank…
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Hour-Glass by Abbigail N. Rosewood
December 19, 2020
I remember being born, the deep red rush, the slippery vessel, the convulsion of tears and sweat, of not-wanting, then…
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A List of Everyone in the World by Sarah Salcedo
December 19, 2020
Therese Jones had a list of enemies. She was overlooked by everyone and no one saw her looking back at…
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Bear in Midwinter by Jeffrey Ellinger
December 19, 2020
I worry I have always been the wrong kind of bear. Alannah broke me so completely, I think, because for…
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Pinch My Heart by Judith Cooper
December 19, 2020
You live in a small town in the middle of America. You grew up in the Baptist church, a thrummy,…
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The Lantern Path by Cheryl McNamara
December 19, 2020
She was a seal transforming into a human, all caught, all frozen in time. Legs and feet adorned with splendid…
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Only One Syllable by Samantha Hoffman
December 19, 2020
Five shirtless men surround a tiny, no-hipped woman, her breasts barely contained in her red string bikini. The men banter…
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Luz Maria by Lisa María Madera
December 19, 2020
This is the town where stories begin. This is the town where they first come before they vanish to the…
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A Story About Your Neighbor by Jessica Staricka
December 19, 2020
She has half a prescription bottle of leftover hydrocodone from when she broke her ankle. She wants to try abusing…
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Where is the Mouth by Lucy Zhang
December 19, 2020
Mr. John made dolls: small, colorful things stuffed with polyester batting and sprouted yarn for hair. The students watched him…
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Hypertext Interview With Patricia Ann McNair
December 18, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice With startling honesty, precise observation, and a deep faith in the beauty of language, Patricia Ann…
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Excerpt: Elizabeth B. Splaine’s DEVIL’S GRACE
December 18, 2020
prologue August 2018 The summer had been unusually dry, but last evening’s skies had opened and unleashed the wrath of…
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One Question: Elizabeth B. Splaine
December 18, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Beth Splaine, author of Devil’s Grace, “what percentage of Americans believe in an afterlife?” By Elizabeth B. Splaine…
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