Cut More, Save More by Kathleen Quigley
September 23, 2020
While recuperating from my mastectomy, I read as much as I could, burrowing into rabbit holes on the internet trying…
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Hypertext Interview With Michele Morano
September 22, 2020
By Anita Gill Whenever I pick up a memoir or collection of essays, I first read the disclaimer where the…
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Politeness Will Not Protect You by Nicole R. Zimmerman
September 20, 2020
The attack came from behind—arms pinned suddenly to my sides, my body immobilized. Panic pulsed through my veins and terror…
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The Outer Limits of Love by Maija Rothenberg
September 18, 2020
That my brother showed up at all that Sunday was the insult, or so I thought at the time. Robert1…
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Hypertext Interview With Ignatius Valentine Aloysius
September 17, 2020
By Christine Maul Rice Ignatius Valentine Aloysius’ debut novel Fishhead: Republic of Want (Tortoise Books) details the soul-crushing obstacles a…
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Three by Nicole Schnitzler
September 16, 2020
When I walk by Daniel’s room, it is dark. The moon hangs low outside, casting a ray of faint light…
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Mother’s Day by Julie Lambert
September 13, 2020
The wail of sirens disturbs the stillness of our shushed suburban street. My seven-month-old daughter is heavy and soft in…
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Touched: From Notes Taken at the Facility by Anne-Marie Oomen
September 11, 2020
1. That day when they strap you into the lift harness, and you rise, swaying like cargo, then they slop…
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Excerpt: Tara Lynn Masih’s THE BITTER KIND
September 10, 2020
Stela Stela returns home for a short visit at Easter. Her mother tells her on the phone that the Captain…
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One Question: Tara Lynn Masih
September 10, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Tara Lynn Masih, author of The Bitter Kind, “Setting plays a large role in The Bitter Kind. Have you…
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Kintsugi For Aunt Vera by Barbara Ungar
September 9, 2020
In that wee hour when the cats go madand carom around the house, a crash.Dad’s WWII picture, where he’s prettyas…
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One Question: Karin Cecile Davidson
September 9, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Karin Cecile Davidson, author of Sybelia Drive, “Why is LuLu so fierce when it comes to her friendship…
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Ukiyo-E by Barbara Ungar
September 6, 2020
I go to bed with shutters openwatch the snowswirling in streetlight the sudden apparitionof a facein my upstairs window an…
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Excerpt: Karin Cecile Davidson’s SYBELIA DRIVE
September 2, 2020
By Karin Cecile Davidson Girl – October 1967 Rainey paraded down on us the year my daddy left. It was…
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On First Teaching Emily Wilson’s Homer by Barbara Ungar
September 2, 2020
Athena’s turned Odysseus into a bum againwithering his handsome body arthriticdimming his fine bright eyes, dulling his hairturning his clothes…
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Scent Dragonfly by Miho Nonaka
August 30, 2020
Mother called it scent dragonfly;we never learned its real name.It was so thin, so discreet thatwe considered its appearancemore a…
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Excerpt: Gwen Goodkin’s A PLACE REMOTE
August 28, 2020
By Gwen Goodkin Excerpt from “Just Les is Fine” After lunch with Naomi, I called Lynn and told her I…
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One Question: Gwen Goodkin
August 28, 2020
Hypertext Magazine asked Gwen Goodkin, author of A Place Remote, “why did you write most of the stories in A Place Remote from…
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Kira Kira by Miho Nonaka
August 28, 2020
Lying down on freshly laundered sheets,my two-year old reaches his hand upas if to catch faint stars in the ceilingprojected…
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From Now On by Miho Nonaka
August 26, 2020
See, for the moment, there is still water lappingInside this block of agate,At the heart of its irregular clouding.The morning…
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Autumn Note by Miho Nonaka
August 23, 2020
As if the trees that I didn’t know were therebecome incandescent to call attention to my inattention during my morning…
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Heads or Tails by Anastasia Jill
August 21, 2020
Bridgette decided the gun tasted like a penny. She knew, because she’d eaten coins far back as she could remember.…
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How Jaap De Bos Became a Jew by Peter Ferry
August 19, 2020
Dressed in new clothes and shoes with his hair tied back beneath a new hat, with the satchel containing everything…
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Map for a New World by Andrew Allegretti
August 16, 2020
From A Fool’s Game The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. —L.P. Hartley They slept on…
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Mattie’s Blue Dream by Ann L. Hemenway
August 14, 2020
Thanksgiving 1976 George was right to be afraid that his mother would smell the smoke in the library the next…
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So Good to See You by Amina Gautier
August 12, 2020
They haven’t seen each other since high school, but when their paths cross, they easily recognize in their adult faces…
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Necessary Detour by Thomas Benz
August 9, 2020
Through a driving rain, Alec makes his nightly trek to the Monroe Street Station, arriving wet at the margins where…
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Tallahassee by Trevor Lisa
August 7, 2020
You could turn to a liquid. You could wait for the tears or you could move to action. You could…
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Soft by GKS Waller
August 5, 2020
Raymond had high hopes for tonight, but he’d almost given up believing someone right for him would get on the…
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Magna Comes Loudly by Megan Stielstra
August 4, 2020
Here is how it would go: She’s waiting for the el, bag in one hand, book in the other. She’s…
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