NO JUSTICE! by Judith C. Handschuh
September 2, 2016
Chapter 1 Chicago, Illinois, January, 1993 They’re all here looking for justice, and if even one of them finds it,…
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Hypertext Interview With Renée Ashley
July 27, 2016
By Eric Paul Around the time I started looking into MFA programs, I stumbled across a poem in the Greensboro…
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The Disappearing Girl by Desiree Cooper
July 18, 2016
My minivan churns impatiently as I wait in the long queue. Up ahead, it’s easy to spot my daughter in…
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Hypertext Interview With Desiree Cooper
July 15, 2016
By Christine Rice The stories in Desiree Cooper’s lyrical debut collection, Know the Mother, are razor-edged, quick-footed, powerful. Cooper’s language…
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Excerpt from Ruth Galm’s Novel Into the Valley
July 12, 2016
By Ruth Galm She had been in San Francisco two years. It was not the weather that had drawn her;…
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Hypertext Interview With Zoe Zolbrod
July 11, 2016
By Christine Rice Reading Zoe Zolbrod’s The Telling felt like exhaling after holding my breath for a very long time.…
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Hypertext Interview With Karen Halvorsen Schreck
July 6, 2016
By Christine Rice Karen Halvorsen Schreck’s fourth novel, Broken Ground, illuminates one of America’s darkest and best-kept Depression-era secrets: as…
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ExciteBike 64 by Nichole Rued
June 30, 2016
My mother gave the Nintendo to my cousins when I was in sixth grade after Christmas, when I got my…
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Scott Atkinson On Belt Magazine’s Happy Anyway, A Flint Anthology
June 27, 2016
By Christine Rice You probably know about Belt Magazine’s online mission to publish top-notch independent journalism about the Rust Belt.…
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Hypertext Interview with Khaulah Naima Nuruddin
June 24, 2016
By Sheree L. Greer This interview is an exercise in shape-shifting, in movement and transition. We are all furniture, and…
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Little Plots in the Sky by James McAdams
June 21, 2016
Green rooms are never green, that’s just a lie, Dad doesn’t know why. Dad never knows. All he says is,…
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This Is Not My Beautiful Life by J. Bradley
June 2, 2016
Danny looks in the mirror, notices the tomato soup stain to the right of his nose. He unspools a handful…
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Bloody Night by Nicole Chakalis
May 30, 2016
Memorial Day Tribute To Our Friend & Colleague Nicole Chakalis Things in the new house were different. Not better, just…
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Hypertext Interview With Donna Miscolta
May 26, 2016
By Christine Rice In today’s bizarro world–with knee-jerk nonsense stoking a roaring misunderstanding of the immigrant experience–reading Donna Miscolta’s When…
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Excerpt from Tiffany Gholar’s A Bitter Pill to Swallow
May 23, 2016
Chapter 1: A Reason to Die Devante knew he couldn’t tell her the truth when his mother asked, “Are you…
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Excerpt from Suzanne Hyman’s Best Friends Tell Each Other Everything
May 13, 2016
You confess your deepest darkest secret to Hillary You don’t really remember how you two became friends again, but you…
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Review of People Like You by Margaret Malone
May 10, 2016
Reviewed By Donna Miscolta One of the beguiling features of Margaret Malone’s story collection is the multiple meanings of its…
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Reach Out and Touch Someone by John Milas
May 6, 2016
I’m in the grocery store again, like most nights. Cashiers scan items non-stop, their registers giving off incessant beeps and…
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Hypertext Interview With Toni Nealie
May 4, 2016
By Christine Rice About halfway through Toni Nealie’s absorbing debut essay collection, The Miles Between Me, I wrote this in…
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Hypertext Interview With Rebecca Makkai
April 20, 2016
By Christine Rice Rebecca Makkai’s short story collection, Music for Wartime, knocked me on my heels. The stories are stunningly…
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A Literary Innovator by Amy Crumbaugh
April 12, 2016
Imagine the quintessential French city nestled at the base of the French Alps, and it’s likely that the picture in…
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Excerpt from Michelle Adelman’s Piece of Mind
April 8, 2016
Chapter 1 I was brain injured before it was trendy. Before the football players and the boxers and the soldiers…
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Hypertext Interview With Emily Gray Tedrowe
April 5, 2016
By Christine Rice In her novel Blue Stars, Emily Gray Tedrowe’s gaze scans the battlefield but rests on the struggles…
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The Old Woman on the Subway by Jennifer Hudak
March 29, 2016
You catch glimpses of her between the shifting, swaying commuters: a pilled fleece jacket draped over a candy cane spine.…
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Hypertext Interview with Angela Vela
March 25, 2016
By Shelbie Janocha On the second Tuesday of every month, a crowd forms inside Cafe Mustache, a hip Logan Square…
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Mia Alvar’s In The Country
March 23, 2016
By Donna Miscolta This February marks the thirtieth anniversary of the People Power Revolution that ended the Marcos regime in…
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Herschel Street Playlist by Melaina K. de la Cruz
March 18, 2016
The house on Herschel Street never really belonged to me, but I liked to think that the yellow walls of…
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Hypertext Interview With Colin Channer
March 14, 2016
By Sheree Greer I caught up with novelist and poet Colin Channer at the Miami Book Fair back in November…
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Dummy by Ashlyn Wheeler
March 1, 2016
In the brief time I knew my father, he said, “You know what you were built for.”  He said, “Don’t…
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The Look of Love, Take Two by Ben Tanzer
February 26, 2016
It is late. The sky is meringue. The dress is retro. The hair, which is sometimes highlighted and sometimes shaggy,…
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