The Genesis
January 15, 2013
By Tony A. Bowers Tommy lay in the darkness of his bedroom, tossing softly with his panda bear pillow, struggling…
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Hypertext Interview with Randy Richardson
January 7, 2013
By Emily Roth While writing his second novel, Cheeseland, Randy Richardson used fiction as a vehicle to mold ghosts from…
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Hypertext Interviews Laurie Lawlor & Stephanie Kuehnert
November 28, 2012
By Diamond Dees While censors and book-banners continue to suffer from arrested development, young adult fiction keeps evolving.  After all,…
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Hypertext Interview with Julia Borcherts
November 7, 2012
By Emily Roth Combining the twin passions of most writers – drinking and listening to great writing – seemed like…
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Hypertext Interview with Christine Sneed
November 2, 2012
By Christine Rice Christine Sneed has put in her 10,000 hours and then some, Mr. Gladwell.  I first heard Christine read…
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The Hole by Meredith Grahl
November 2, 2012
I want to preface this story by saying that I love my mother. “There is a hole in the yard,”…
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Hypertext Interview With Sheree L. Greer
November 2, 2012
By Diamond Dees A few of Sheree L. Greer‘s latest obsessions include coconut water, talking to strangers, waiting for Dexter and…
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Escaping by Aimee Stahlberg
November 2, 2012
Time sped by after I broke up with Tommy, zipping before my eyes in little more than a blur. Before…
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Meow by Jon Natzke
November 1, 2012
Daniel is sitting on the couch in his sister’s apartment, phone blaring dial tone in one hand and the other…
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Poetry by John Grey
November 1, 2012
Her Plauge On my sister’s outback sheep station, locusts are unnecessary. Drought comes with more buzz and carapace and feeler…
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BREAKFAST AT WORK by Marco Djermaghian
October 12, 2012
     
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Hypertext Hearts Birch Hills @ World’s End
October 12, 2012
The Hypertext Interview with Geoff Hyatt HT: What’s your idea of a good Valentine’s Day? GH: I don’t think you…
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What Now? What Next? by Noelle Aleksandra Hufnagel
June 17, 2012
Five years. Five years of long commutes from the North Side of Chicago. Five years of working full-time in the…
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At Sixty: Photographs of My Mother by Sarah Faust
May 9, 2012
MOTHER’S LAP LAGOON (2003) FISHNETS (2003) Sarah Faust’s work is in the permanent collections at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago,…
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Marco Djermaghian
May 9, 2012
Maranjab, Salt Lake Desert, Near Kashan, Iran, May 2012
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“Spit on Qaddafi Day” Shows Not All Local Teens Are Bad by Brian Costello
May 9, 2012
  [Originally printed on the back page “Local Voices” op-ed column of the Lake Lavender Coupon Clipper Monthly, May 1986.…
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What Happened To Daisy by Michelle Pretorius
May 9, 2012
When she thought about it (and she thought about it often), Daisy was amazed that Martin was interested in her.…
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After by Cyn Vargas
May 9, 2012
The tree house burnt down in 1983. From the day it was built by Henry Cornwell’s dad back when we…
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Cherries Jubilee by Kristin Bair O’Keeffe
May 9, 2012
Dinner, on an evening during Initsa Jubilee’s fourth year, began no differently from any other, except that Father Jubilee glared…
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A World of His Own by Sayandev Paul
May 9, 2012
A World of His Own The day drives on as a sullen dream, with waves that neither break nor live…
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Avoiding the Subject by Sheree L. Greer
February 13, 2012
Valentine’s Day, 2009. It’s Saturday night, and since my relationship fell apart six months prior, I’m alone. I sit at…
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82 Degrees by Megan Stielstra
February 13, 2012
It was twenty below, one of those horrible Chicago winter nights with the snow advisory, the blizzard advisory, three layers…
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Dear Steve/Dear Casey: A Film by Steve & C. James Bye
February 13, 2012
Does love really know no bounds?  Like, really really?  Like, even between Steve Tartaglione and C. James Bye? Find out. Watch…
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Dutch by Daniel Prazer
February 13, 2012
The night of our third date, Michelle and I drove to an all-night pharmacy to go Dutch on a morning-after…
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In the Category of Best Break Up… by Marcia Brenner
February 13, 2012
It was September, that saddest month, and his favorite time of year, and it was a Sunday, and we had…
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I Knew You Would Belong to Me by Chelsea Laine Wells
February 13, 2012
You will think of it again and again irresistibly, too often, the arc of Cain’s fall, his arms flung wide…
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Jack & the Pregnancy Pamphlet by Cyn Vargas
February 13, 2012
It wasn’t that Sebastian was ashamed of his wife, Grace, who was seven months pregnant with twins. It was just…
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Poetry by Russ Woods
February 13, 2012
A LOVE STORY SET IN A CREEPY NIGHTMARE FOREST I hope you don’tget eaten by thathorrible horrible deer thingbehind you.…
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Campaign Love Bites
February 13, 2012
Mary Beth Hoerner Ron Paul to Carol Paul Happy Valentine’s Day, Pumpkin! The First Amendment protects my right to talk…
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Farewell to the Piano by Jessie Ann Morrison
February 13, 2012
I began taking piano lessons when I was six years old.  My teacher, Ms. Lombardo, was a large, lumbering Italian…
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