One Question: Jason Fisk
August 18, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Jason Fisk, author of The Craigslist Incident, “What inspired you to write this book?” By Jason Fisk…
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Excerpt: Jason Fisk’s THE CRAIGSLIST INCIDENT
August 18, 2022
By Jason Fisk Women Seeking Men: I’m an 18-year-old female and I want to take a hit out on myself.…
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One Question: KB Jensen
August 12, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked KB Jensen, author of Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, “Considering you’ve written two novels, why…
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Excerpt: KB Jensen’s LOVE AND OTHER MONSTERS IN THE DARK
August 12, 2022
By KB Jensen In a Serial Killer’s Garden The problem with dissolving a body in acid is that it’s bad…
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One Question: Donald G. Evans
August 9, 2022
Hypertext Magazine asked Donald G. Evans, editor of Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, “So, what do you…
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Excerpt: Donald G. Evan’s WHEREVER I’M AT: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHICAGO POETRY
August 9, 2022
Edited By Donald G. Evans People not from here sometimes ask, “What is Chicago like?” Chicago is like nothing. It’s…
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The Last Éclair by Harvey Silverman
August 9, 2022
Weintraub’s is gone. The last business on Water Street that was a tangible link to those days well over sixty…
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Self Portrait as Moon Drowning in Petrichor… by jason b. crawford
August 9, 2022
and who brought you into this, silly moon? craters licked across your judgemental glare. i know you watch me in…
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Myopia by Susan Dickman
August 9, 2022
I remember the winter I stood every morning on the L platform waiting for the express train to arrive, shivering…
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Night in the Church by Carmen Bugan
August 9, 2022
In memory of Tanti Bălaşa The congregation chose to have your wake in church. They placed your coffin on a…
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I Keep Thinking About That Robot by Jason McCall
August 9, 2022
The future is a bomb delivered by the blameless claw that was born in the cradle of civilization so that…
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The Sex Isn’t Working by Sarah Kersey
August 9, 2022
Some person is asleep in the bedroom. Some guy licked my breasts into his own wounds. Someone thought saying they…
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Zinnias by Brad Richard
August 9, 2022
There is never enough time to see everything in the museums we visit most often. I planted ten packets of…
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Red Geraniums by Rick Krizman
August 9, 2022
It’s been a long day. The wine is gone, but there’s about one finger of Glenfiddich in a glass to…
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A Cancer Lexicon by Kathleen Quigley
August 9, 2022
Adriamycin. The red devil. This is your first—or second—chemo drug. Did the nurses administer them alphabetically or in order of…
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Creative Nonfiction by Kiel M. Gregory
August 9, 2022
A VISIT’S END We’re bringing the boys down the first-floor stairs which lead to the lobby in the apartment building…
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Old Guy in the Schropes’ Driveway by Coley Gallagher
August 9, 2022
My friend Mark’s mom had been unwell. Mrs. Schrope doesn’t like people to fuss over her, however, since I was…
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Meat and Dairy by Rebecca Evans
August 9, 2022
I roam my home and sit with ghosts, one ghost in particular. I roam with my perfect-man ghost and think…
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Friends in Reverse Orbit by Tim Bascom
August 9, 2022
2018: Daniel takes Cathleen and me to the Haudenosaunee reserve near where he and Wendy live in Hamilton, Ontario—to see…
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Creative Nonfiction by Judith Fetterley
August 9, 2022
CRICKS, CRAWDADS, COWS, AND CORNFIELDS I am trying to tell him why I don’t mind summers that are hot and…
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Fragility by Dylan Emmons
August 9, 2022
The moment I almost lost it, I was in a friend’s kitchen, one in the morning. The soupy light left…
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Our Seasons by Lisa C. Peterson
August 9, 2022
SPRING In springtime, when the first daffodil pushes its yellow head from brown soil, an airiness rises from my core…
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Hello Button by Gal McMahon
August 9, 2022
I am on the airplane. I am in my special seat, near the bathroom. I love the airplane bathroom because…
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Slowly, Then All At Once by Laura Dobbs
August 9, 2022
It’s evening at the end of December, in that week between holidays where the days blur together and the wonder…
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Apartment Complex by Christopher Chambers
August 9, 2022
1. He often dreams of buildings and sometimes he finds himself thinking about all of the apartments he has known,…
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The Gospel According to Spinoza Jones by Peter Ferry
August 9, 2022
People liked To look at Spinoza although he was not handsome or beautiful as some men can be. You might…
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In The Bag by Jennifer Wang
August 9, 2022
Alice had not wanted help, but at this point she needed to talk to someone. Using her old purse, Alice…
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Filth by Verity McKay
August 9, 2022
One evening, my wife shed her marigolds and decided she’d had enough. “I can’t do it anymore,” she said. “I…
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Feeding the Flock by Sarah Starr Murphy
August 9, 2022
In the first light of dawn, Milena thought they were black garbage bags, twisted by the wind into the bare…
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Dreams & Memories by Gemini Wahhaj
August 9, 2022
Three friends met at a house in Katy, Houston. They had been classmates at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and…
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