One Question: Rashaun J. Allen
October 17, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Rashaun J. Allen, author of The Blues Cry for a Revolution, “how did you come up with the…
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One Question: Cathy Ulrich
October 16, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Cathy Ulrich, author of Ghosts of You, “Does it matter, for these stories, who the murderer is?”…
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Excerpt From Cathy Ulrich’s GHOSTS OF YOU
October 16, 2019
Being the Murdered Indian  The thing about being the murdered Indian is you set the plot in motion. You will…
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One Question: Connor Coyne
October 14, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Connor Coyne, author of Urbantasm, Book Two: The Empty Room, “Doesn’t your novel Urbantasm use the word ‘fuck’ a lot…
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Excerpt: Connor Coyne’s URBANTASM, BOOK TWO: THE EMPTY ROOM
October 14, 2019
The Empty Room I found Adam and Selby sitting on the rusted white metal chairs on the Demnescus’ front porch.…
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The Second Sight by Suzanne Clores
October 7, 2019
PART 1 The dull whir and arcade blare of McCarran International Airport rattles my skull even after I scurry into…
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Hypertext Interview with Timothy J. Hillegonds
October 3, 2019
By Christine Rice In his memoir, The Distance Between (Nebraska, 2019), Timothy Hillegonds trains his unflinching gaze on addiction, white male…
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To My Friend Who Needed A Ride by Pam Parker
October 2, 2019
When you needed me, I failed you. You had appeared in my doorway in a Lanz nightgown with splashes of…
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Hypertext Interview with Katey Schultz
October 1, 2019
By Christine Maul Rice This novel. This writing. Katey Schultz’s ambitious and fully realized novel, Still Come Home (Loyola University…
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Excerpt from Katey Schultz’s Novel Still Come Home
October 1, 2019
Blister in the Sun Chapter 2 from Still Come Home, a novel by Katey Schultz The call center on base…
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The Quiet by Kristin Ito
September 30, 2019
For my birthday, Bear and I go to the desert. We drive through Fontana and Redlands, then continue further east.…
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One Question: Sharyn Skeeter
September 27, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Sharyn Skeeter, author of Dancing with Langston, “Why did you choose to have poet and author Langston Hughes as…
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Excerpt: Sharyn Skeeter’s DANCING WITH LANGSTON
September 27, 2019
The Audition “I’d heard that a great dancer, Tyree Jones, was holding auditions in Harlem for his new fusion dance…
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Spectator Mourning by Bridget Boland
September 26, 2019
Have you ever observed the funeral wake; that is, have you been present at vigils over the bodies of the…
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We Have Lost Too Many Wigs by Desiree Cooper
September 25, 2019
As a black child born in 1960, I was only a curious spectator during the black consciousness movement. In addition…
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One Question: Stuart Ross
September 24, 2019
Hypertext Magazine asked Stuart Ross, author of Jenny in Corona, “How can you publish Jenny in Corona when the world is burning?” Good question.…
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Excerpt: JENNY IN CORONA by Stuart Ross
September 24, 2019
The streets exist. People engage and watch where they’re going. There is intersection, more than one way. I get around…
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Racism by Pablo Brescia
September 23, 2019
In a newspaper photographan Indian from Boliviacries.They killed her husband;he was guilty,or maybe not.The Indian from Bolivialives in Buenos Airesor…
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A Pernicious Detour by Pablo Brescia
September 23, 2019
This phrase comes fromJosé Revueltas.He meansthat languageis time wasted;that to speak isto delay the inevitable;that to write is even worsethan…
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Prose to the Silent Conscious Man by Rashaun J. Allen
September 20, 2019
1. I don’t know how to reach you, since when you speak in person or through social media, you are…
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A Spaceship Named Respect by Rashaun J. Allen
September 20, 2019
Sometimes I want to fly away in a spaceshipleave for Mars on the first flight out of JFKwhere my chance…
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He Says by Patricia Ann McNair
September 17, 2019
He says: Both sides. Both sides. He says: It’s not the guns (they shout: THE CONSTITUTION) And Sick sick people…
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Trust Fall by Jennifer Steele
September 13, 2019
On a summer night along the CT Riverwhere we are stealing timefrom the curfew of a parkwhere no one but…
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Memory Book by Kate Gray
September 11, 2019
Turn each page packed with cluesof Paris, Swiss Air, grandkids, upstairs,only then she remembers. At noon boozemixes with Coumadin, Ambien,…
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For the Student Whose Lines Stopped the Class by Kate Gray
September 11, 2019
~After reading William Stafford’s “Lines to Stop Talking By” You wanted to find Always,the mirror inside a water drophanging pine…
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Drought by Kate Gray
September 11, 2019
~for my brothers The sunrise isa bruise, welcomelike a purpled eye if it relieves a childof secrets. No rainfor weeks,the…
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To the Moon and Back by Tina Jenkins Bell
September 9, 2019
Streets full of people, all alone Roads full of houses, never home A church full of singing, out of tune…
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Siblings by Toti O’Brien
September 6, 2019
Please. I want my innocence back. Whatever it costs. I did not lose it in my room when the call…
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Orphans by Christy Stillwell
September 4, 2019
During the service, Josh suffered. His wool jacket was fine for Denver summers but not Nashville in August. Under the…
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The Problem of Your Scent by Courtney Carliss Young
September 3, 2019
Excerpt from the novella I Surrender It was our sixteenth birthday, and all I wanted was a slice of yellow…
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