Heezey’s Wake by Ken Rodgers
February 23, 2016
Heezey caught a dose of cancer. She fought like hell. Took chemo, drank contraband herbs smuggled from Mexico, lost her…
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Once a Boy: Paintings by Sherman Finch
February 19, 2016
 Once a Boy Once a Boy is a series of paintings that explores the lost tradition of a boy’s initiation…
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Catalogue of Panties by William Lessard
February 14, 2016
Blue cotton panties. Finger down the front. She had wondered most about the taste of her. She didn’t seem like…
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Maëlys
February 10, 2016
BY RICHARD HARTSHORN I am in the woods, and I am wearing the stupidest shoes.  I bought them for the…
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RE•WESTERN: Portraits by Felice House
February 5, 2016
This past year Felice House exhibited paintings in galleries and museums across the United States and Canada including: Maryland, Georgia,…
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Hypertext Interview With Suzanne Scanlon
February 3, 2016
By Christine Rice Reading Suzanne Scanlon’s second novel, Her 37th Year, An Index, felt at first like standing too close…
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Crash Where You Land by Scott Miles
February 1, 2016
Lumpy is a no-show for work, which isn’t uncommon with the temps we hire at Front Street Packaging. Most of…
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Collapsing Star by Lillian Ann Slugocki
January 26, 2016
The God light is a window, in a tall building, one block away. I fell in love with it in…
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SEAMLESS by Priscilla Briggs
January 22, 2016
Seamless addresses issues of truth and fiction in photography as they conflate with consumer fantasy. In contemporary China, couples spend…
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Cracking Up by Will Radke
January 18, 2016
I blacked out and when I came to I was flat on my back on the sidewalk outside a bar…
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An Excerpt from The Guest Room and a Short Story by Chris Bohjalian
January 15, 2016
THE GUEST ROOM Chapter One Richard Chapman presumed there would be a stripper at his brother Philip’s bachelor party. Perhaps…
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Hypertext Interview With Chris Bohjalian
January 14, 2016
By Jennifer Bostrom Chris Bohjalian’s The Guest Room, is a story of debauchery gone wrong when a bachelor party turns into a double…
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The Hunger She Left Behind by John Kendrick
January 12, 2016
He stared down at the open casket and tried to put on the right face because people were watching. Her…
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Seven Minutes in the Garage by Tyler Barton
January 1, 2016
0min. After they’re in, everyone’s buzzing. God, what do you think they’re doing? Kyle rubs his hands together. Shhhh I…
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Fiction by Brian Alan Ellis
December 24, 2015
“Aunt Jackie” One New Year’s Eve I trusted this big girl I barely knew to leave with my debit card…
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The Orange Dress Was Her Grandmother’s and It Had White Buttons That Ran Down the Front by Lex Sonne
December 22, 2015
We’re on the Walnut Street bus and stuck in the Saturday night traffic at Rittenhouse Square. The bus shakes when…
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Station to Station by Andrew Marinus
December 16, 2015
It’s a late, orange evening – everywhere grills cool, frisbees  rest, freakishly pliant, contented faces stare off into the middle…
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Excerpt From On The Nine by Tony A. Bowers
December 10, 2015
RIP I heard something pretty interesting once. It was a saying. It went, “The very best of a man is…
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Hypertext Interview With Tony Bowers
December 7, 2015
By Christine Rice Tony Bowers’s short story collection On The Nine vividly depicts the desperation, loves, failures, and triumphs of…
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Ghosts in the Sunlight by Angela Fraleigh
December 4, 2015
Ghosts in the Sunlight – The Complexities of Power or How We Get What We Want With What We’ve Got…
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Sympathetic by Josh Rank
December 3, 2015
I took a drink of water and it felt like pointy little puppy teeth dragging along my throat. I tried…
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Hypertext Interview with Behnam Riahi & Reading Under the Influence
November 30, 2015
By Shelbie Janocha Reading Under the Influence – or RUI for those who have no time to spare – is a…
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Excerpt From Sarah Xerta’s Nothing To Do With Me
November 26, 2015
CRUSH Today I’m not crushing on you. Handfuls of blue skyspill out of my pockets and I let them, leaving…
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Hypertext Interview With Sarah Xerta
November 23, 2015
By Christine Rice Sarah Xerta’s language and images will lull you into lovely, quiet spaces and – just like that…
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The Lit Scene: BOOKS ON THE NIGHTSTAND
November 18, 2015
By Howard Simmons When my final grad class ended and I was left to work through my thesis alone, unmoored…
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Pinhole Photography by Tuba Öztekin Köymen
November 13, 2015
I am an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on thematic approaches to photographic art. My work reflects the challenges of cultural…
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Chicago Lit Scene: 7 Stories
November 12, 2015
BY SHELBIE JANOCHA Originally envisioned by founder DJ Howard as a monthly semi-theater performance with experimental sound effects and quick…
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IMMIGRANT LABORERS by Lupita Murillo Tinnen
November 6, 2015
BY LUPITA MURILLO TINNEN Immigrant Laborers Series The images from this series titled, Immigrant Laborers, help express a more complex…
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Excerpt from Bottom of the Ninth by Wyl Villacres
November 4, 2015
BY WYL VILLACRES “4-6” Some facts about my father: -My dad grew up reading poetry, writing down his favorites by…
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The Hypertext Interview With Wyl Villacres
November 2, 2015
By Paul Massignani Wyl Villacres is a Cubs fan. I’m a White Sox fan. Staying true to the spirit of…
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