Excerpt From Erin Dorney’s I Am Not Famous Anymore
May 31, 2018
WHATEVER BRINGS ME CLOSER you               you               you you …
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The Return by Yen Ha
May 29, 2018
The summer her mind reappeared for the first time in over a decade, she had packed the three kids, her…
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Teaching Water How To Drown by Doro Boehme
May 23, 2018
“Have you had any prior testing done on the area being scanned today?” Since treatments started, Laika has come here…
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Visits by Gint Aras
May 17, 2018
WINTER It was quiet enough for Farem to hear the cigarette crackle as he smoked. The window was wide open…
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Awake by Gail Wallace Bozzano
May 15, 2018
I’m the reason we live at Grandma’s. Me, and Vasili. One early spring night Mom brought him home from the…
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Wheels by Garnett Kilberg Cohen
May 10, 2018
Ace Rivers leaned into the wind as he walked. He knew if he stood up straight, he would be blown…
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HYPERTEXT REVIEW EXCERPT
May 8, 2018
ICE DREAMS BY TONI NEALIE Andriy, gutting fish on the deck for Vira to fry for dinner, hears a plane’s…
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The 100-Year-Old Birthday Girl
May 3, 2018
  SCOTT ATKINSON The elf was at ease, completely comfortable. It made you wonder. I certainly wasn’t comfortable, not looking…
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HYPERTEXT REVIEW – FLASH FICTION
May 2, 2018
MARIA BY KATHLEEN QUIGLEY Maria stands inside the crumbling barn, dressed as if going on a date. Her dress gapes…
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The Clique Gospels by Shoshana Akabas
April 30, 2018
On what to do in physics lab when your lab partner / best friend / only friend dies. I’d been…
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Amazement by Anya Silver
April 19, 2018
I am cultivating amazement,an emotion I rarely catch anymore. Ilook around and marvel. Marvelous that my mother found a batch…
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HYPERTEXT REVIEW EXCERPT
April 18, 2018
WORK IS WHAT IT IS (FOR PHILIP LEVINE) BY NIC CUSTER   Work is when and if you can get…
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Covey by Natasha Mijares
April 17, 2018
A family of tickings whirin white strata.Bellies wet and buoyant,backs dry and dawdling. What do we sing in our familiesthat…
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Everything I Did That Day by Re’Lynn Hansen
April 13, 2018
Dear Rena. I know you will understand this letter because it is about everything. It’s homage to our talks—which are…
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Merchant Marine by Garin Cycholl
April 11, 2018
I’d have gone to sea. At twelve years old, I got an itch to head east as soon as I…
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On Getting Straight Answers by Eileen Favorite
April 10, 2018
The students depart in vans, Checker cabs, short yellow buses, and limousines. A forty-mile radius is their domain—leafy Palos Hills,…
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Elevator to Curaçao by Lasher Lane
April 9, 2018
When I first met Sara, she stood face to face before me, asking what was stuck to the front of…
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One Question With The Creators of Cubsessions: Becky Sarwate & Randy Richardson
March 29, 2018
Hypertext asked Becky Sarwate and Randy Richardson, creators of Cubsessions: Famous Fans of Chicago’s North Side Baseball Team & Their…
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EXCERPT: Cubsessions Interview With Joe Mantegna
March 28, 2018
Cubsessions co-editors Becky Sarwate and Randy Richardson interview Joe Mantegna. Sometimes, the tensions of a particularly close and important baseball…
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The Lawyer by John McNally
March 13, 2018
I It had taken me two weeks to find an attorney who had earned a law degree from a university…
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Concept Comics By Jessica Peri Chalmers: DISTRACTIONS
March 8, 2018
DISTRACTIONS By Jessica Peri Chalmers Read an essay by Jessica Peri Chalmers, visit her website, & view her artwork archive.…
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It’s All About the Breathing by Kevin Richard White
March 4, 2018
All the manuals told me how to breathe. All of the books, all of the websites, all of the people…
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Hypertext Interview with Lynn Sloan
March 2, 2018
By Christine Rice For me, a brilliant piece of writing often shatters what I thought I knew, dumps it out…
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Excerpt: THIS FAR ISN’T FAR ENOUGH by Lynn Sloan
March 2, 2018
LOST AND FOUND “Lauren, you must be joking,” Dallas said. “You can’t let Frannie simply exit with no fanfare. We…
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ONE QUESTION: Joe Ponepinto
March 1, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Joe Ponepinto, author of Mr. Neutron, “What question do you wish you’d been asked about your work?”…
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Excerpt: Joe Ponepinto’s MR. NEUTRON
March 1, 2018
Chapter One He stood in the niche of a wall in the back of the room, safe and unobserved, observing…
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ONE QUESTION: Vincent Chu
February 28, 2018
Hypertext Magazine asked Vincent Chu, author of the debut story collection Like a Champion, “What question do you wish you’d…
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Excerpt From: Vincent Chu’s LIKE A CHAMPION
February 28, 2018
Star of the World It was toilet-seat-sticks-to-your-ass kind of weather and Hal wasn’t having it. He left the bathroom window…
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One Question: Natalie Singer
February 26, 2018
HYPERTEXT MAGAZINE ASKED NATALIE SINGER, AUTHOR OF THE MEMOIR CALIFORNIA CALLING: A SELF-INTERROGATION, “WHAT QUESTION DO YOU WISH YOU’D BEEN…
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Excerpt: CALIFORNIA CALLING: A SELF-INTERROGATION
February 26, 2018
By Natalie Singer Prologue I am in a courtroom. The color palette is creamy shells and brass, cold emerald lawyers’…
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