One Hundred Small Deaths by Marlene Olin
December 6, 2021
Fiction Second Place, 2021 Doro Böhme Memorial Contest To celebrate thanksgiving, they have commandeered the backyard. The weather’s warm, the…
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One Question: Cameron MacKenzie
December 2, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Cameron MacKenzie, author of River Weather, “I see the book is dedicated to Frank. Who’s Frank? Why is…
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Excerpt: Cameron MacKenzie’s RIVER WEATHER
December 2, 2021
By Cameron MacKenzie Scenarios When I was in seventh grade or thereabouts I had a suicide scenario, the particulars of…
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The Follow by Kathleen Jones
November 30, 2021
Fiction First Place, 2021 Doro Böhme Memorial Contest When we’re  first  together, I don’t know if we’re together, but before…
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Excerpt: Mahyar A. Amouzegar’s THE HUBRIS OF AN EMPTY HAND
November 12, 2021
By Mahyar A. Amouzegar Death appeared as he always did and sat regally across from the three men. The black…
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One Question: Mahyar A. Amouzegar
November 12, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Mahyar A. Amouzegar, author of The Hubris of an Empty Hand, “The last chapter is about several characters’ grievances…
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Excerpt: Joan Schweighardt’s THE RIVERS TRILOGY
November 5, 2021
By Joan Schweighardt 1929. Manhattan. Estela and her one-time cousin JoJo have made a terrible mistake. They have tried to…
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One Question: Joan Schweighardt
November 5, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Joan Schweighardt, author of The Rivers Trilogy, “You started your career writing contemporary fiction. Why did you…
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Wilting by Hannah Anderson Harris
October 28, 2021
My dad picked me up from college a month ago. He came alone because Mama was too sick to make…
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The Search for My Grandma’s Fourteenth Summer by Brooke Randel
October 25, 2021
Listening  is  an  act  greater  than  not  talking, which is itself a great act. In my grandma’s apartment, I pressed…
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As Good As Another by Evan James Sheldon
October 21, 2021
I thought jail cells would have metal bars, not automated doors with thick glass windows. They took pictures of my…
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Excerpt: Robert Krut’s WATCH ME TRICK GHOSTS
October 20, 2021
By Robert Krut THE ANXIOUS LEVER OF LOWERING SKY Fear is a blade held in a lung. The sky lowers…
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One Question: Robert Krut
October 20, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Robert Krut, author of Watch Me Trick Ghosts, “You spoke with Hypertext about your last collection—how is this new…
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Face to Face by Catherine Johnson
October 18, 2021
“I wish I had your hair,” Mom said. Maybe it was prom, maybe it was after performing in one of…
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One Question: Blake Sanz
October 15, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Blake Sanz, author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, “How did the decision to tell interconnected narratives…
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Excerpt: Blake Sanz’s THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLING
October 15, 2021
By Blake Sanz How to Live Domestically as an Artist   Stash the unflattering portraits of your wife in the…
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Panic in the Freezer Aisle by Marisa Russello
October 14, 2021
Content Warning: Description of a panic attack I can’t go to the grocery store anymore. I’m hiding in the car,…
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For the Dead by Ken Rodgers
October 11, 2021
C is for the car—the big white DeSoto—we rode in to the temple. C is for the colors black and…
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One Question: Ananda Lima
October 8, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Ananda Lima, author of Mother/land, “You write fiction as well as poetry. Why did you navigate to…
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Excerpt: Ananda Lima’s MOTHER/LAND
October 8, 2021
By Ananda Lima Seven American Sentences In the beginning were people who lived here before.     In the beginning…
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Excerpt: Bradley Sides’ THOSE FANTASTIC LIVES
October 8, 2021
By Bradley Sides One mistake is what separated Nellie from the others—the “fakies” as she called them. Nellie was no…
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One Question: Bradley Sides
October 8, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Bradley Sides, author of Those Fantastic Lives, “Young protagonists certainly are nothing new in adult literature, but…
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The Cicatrix by Rae Wolfe
October 7, 2021
“I love your scar,” the technician says. I’m thirteen, reclined in a dentist’s chair, alone in a room with a…
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Creative Nonfiction by Sophia Thimmes
October 4, 2021
Cloth/Fur The cloth doll wears a red cloak tied off with thin ribbon at her neck and two neat braids…
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Excerpt: Trish McDonald’s PAPER BAGS
October 1, 2021
By Trish Mcdonald Prologue I keep my fears in a ledger, tucked away in a paper bag. My plan is…
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One Question: Trish McDonald
October 1, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Trish McDonald, author of Paper Bags, “Why is a sense of curiosity so important in your novel Paper Bags?”…
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Foster Parent Diary by Kate Martin Rowe
September 30, 2021
When my husband and I decide to open ourselves to one more child, one whom we imagine will be our…
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Ode to Futurity, Ending in a Line from Brief Encounter (1945) by Fargo Tbakhi
September 27, 2021
Here’s to futurity,to some existence projected forwardonto a wall, like Brief Encounter in the basementwhile I mouth the words along…
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Excerpt: Beth Gilstrap’s DEADHEADING AND OTHER STORIES
September 23, 2021
By Beth Gilstrap The Denial Weeks The dresser got good light in the morning. A sprawling, pooling light that kept…
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One Question: Beth Gilstrap
September 23, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Beth Gilstrap, author of Deadheading and Other Stories, “Why do you write linked story collections?” By Beth Gilstrap I…
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