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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Excerpt: Ben Tanzer’s UPSTATE
December 3, 2020
Things Start How does it start? With a bump and a thud, or maybe it’s a thud followed by a…
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One Question: Ben Tanzer
December 3, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Ben Tanzer, author of UPSTATE, “Why re-release a book that the world has already had the chance…
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Hypertext Interview With Mike Puican
November 13, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice As a longtime Chicagoan, reading Mike Puican’s debut collection, Central Air (Northwestern University Press), felt like…
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Hypertext Interview With Randall Horton
October 22, 2020
By Gee Henry Your poems hold a powerful mirror up to the face of society, and seem to deem the…
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Excerpt: Bob Campbell’s MOTOWN MAN
October 8, 2020
Beep. Jim rolled up quickly behind Bradley out of nowhere. The engineer turned to greet the skilled trades’ foreman just…
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One Question: Bob Campbell
October 8, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Bob Campbell, author of Motown Man, “What is the significance of ‘Motown’ in the name and how…
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Hypertext Interview With Rachel Swearingen
October 5, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice Each of the nine finely-tuned, emotionally-taut, and darkly-humorous stories in Rachel Swearingen’s How to Walk on…
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Excerpt: Ellen Birkett Morris’ LOST GIRLS
October 1, 2020
Heavy Metal Laura’s body felt heavy. Heavy was the word her son Jason had used when he could no longer…
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One Question: Ellen Birkett Morris
October 1, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Ellen Birkett Morris, author of Lost Girls, “Why is the collection titled Lost Girls? Are these women and girls…
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Hypertext Interview With John McNally
September 30, 2020
By Cyn Vargas I’ve long admired John McNally—from Troublemakers to The Book of Ralph and numerous works in between—and it…
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Uncle Art Appeals His Conviction to Indiana’s Supreme Court by C. Christine Fair
September 30, 2020
C. Christine Fair is a provost’s distinguished associate professor within the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She studies…
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Bright Lights by Matt Geiger
September 27, 2020
The average person has five sphincters, a cervix or two, and possibly a soul. These are just some of the…
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Stomach Pains by Becky Sisco
September 25, 2020
Whenever mom’s weight was up and her picture was taken, she cut off the bottom part of the photo just…
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