ONE QUESTION: Jaimee Wriston Colbert
November 8, 2016
Hypertext Magazine asks: “What question do you wish you’d been asked about your work?” Check back tomorrow for an excerpt…
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Excerpt From THE MONSTER’S DAUGHTER by Michelle Pretorius
November 3, 2016
Alet’s mind was still reeling from what Koch had told her as she pulled up to Mathebe’s house later that…
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ONE QUESTION: Michelle Pretorius
November 1, 2016
HYPERTEXT is launching ONE QUESTION. It’s a mini-interview series where authors consider this: “What question do you wish you’d been…
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Dream Girl by John McNally
October 28, 2016
There’s this girl I used to know. Or did I? It’s getting harder for me to distinguish my dream life…
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I Am Not Afraid by Patricia Ann McNair
October 26, 2016
Previously published on patriciaannmcnair.com You can do anything…Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything. –Donald Trump I overheard…
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Intellectually Curious, Culturally Voracious, Politically Engaged, Self-Aware, Socially Concerned, Energetic, Erudite Female Seeks Same — or Better. by Jessica Peri Chalmers
October 21, 2016
I meet them one by one, the bachelors. I ask them to meet me at a nearby cafe. I come…
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Ladies Who Dine by Nadine Kenney Johnstone
October 19, 2016
We knew you. Before. Before the promotion, the guy, the condo, the kid. Before the lay off, the IVF. Before…
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Hypertext High School Writers Contest Honorable Mention Placers
October 17, 2016
After much anticipation, we are extremely proud to present the honorable mention placers in our Hypertext High School Writers Contest! Below…
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Hypertext High School Writers Contest Creative Nonfiction Winners
October 16, 2016
After much anticipation, we are extremely proud to present the top three creative nonfiction placers in our Hypertext High School…
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Hypertext High School Writers Contest Fiction Winners
October 15, 2016
After much anticipation, we are extremely proud to present the top three fiction placers in our Hypertext High School Writers…
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The Return of Emma by Sharon Goldberg
October 14, 2016
It was Sunday. I was strolling across the Brooklyn Bridge. A woman tapped me on the shoulder. She looked just…
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Shopping at the Save-Mor by Heather Denniss
October 12, 2016
Tony was hungry. For what, he had no clue. But he hoped to find it at the Save-Mor. After all,…
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Ira Glass Wants To Hit Me by Ben Tanzer
October 6, 2016
Excerpted From BE COOL, A Memoir (sort of) By Ben Tanzer I do not consider myself to be a stalker.…
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NO JUSTICE! by Judith C. Handschuh
September 2, 2016
Chapter 1 Chicago, Illinois, January, 1993 They’re all here looking for justice, and if even one of them finds it,…
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Hypertext Interview With Renée Ashley
July 27, 2016
By Eric Paul Around the time I started looking into MFA programs, I stumbled across a poem in the Greensboro…
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The Disappearing Girl by Desiree Cooper
July 18, 2016
My minivan churns impatiently as I wait in the long queue. Up ahead, it’s easy to spot my daughter in…
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Hypertext Interview With Desiree Cooper
July 15, 2016
By Christine Rice The stories in Desiree Cooper’s lyrical debut collection, Know the Mother, are razor-edged, quick-footed, powerful. Cooper’s language…
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Excerpt from Ruth Galm’s Novel Into the Valley
July 12, 2016
By Ruth Galm She had been in San Francisco two years. It was not the weather that had drawn her;…
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Hypertext Interview With Zoe Zolbrod
July 11, 2016
By Christine Rice Reading Zoe Zolbrod’s The Telling felt like exhaling after holding my breath for a very long time.…
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Hypertext Interview With Karen Halvorsen Schreck
July 6, 2016
By Christine Rice Karen Halvorsen Schreck’s fourth novel, Broken Ground, illuminates one of America’s darkest and best-kept Depression-era secrets: as…
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ExciteBike 64 by Nichole Rued
June 30, 2016
My mother gave the Nintendo to my cousins when I was in sixth grade after Christmas, when I got my…
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Scott Atkinson On Belt Magazine’s Happy Anyway, A Flint Anthology
June 27, 2016
By Christine Rice You probably know about Belt Magazine’s online mission to publish top-notch independent journalism about the Rust Belt.…
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Hypertext Interview with Khaulah Naima Nuruddin
June 24, 2016
By Sheree L. Greer This interview is an exercise in shape-shifting, in movement and transition. We are all furniture, and…
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Little Plots in the Sky by James McAdams
June 21, 2016
Green rooms are never green, that’s just a lie, Dad doesn’t know why. Dad never knows. All he says is,…
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This Is Not My Beautiful Life by J. Bradley
June 2, 2016
Danny looks in the mirror, notices the tomato soup stain to the right of his nose. He unspools a handful…
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Bloody Night by Nicole Chakalis
May 30, 2016
Memorial Day Tribute To Our Friend & Colleague Nicole Chakalis Things in the new house were different. Not better, just…
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Hypertext Interview With Donna Miscolta
May 26, 2016
By Christine Rice In today’s bizarro world–with knee-jerk nonsense stoking a roaring misunderstanding of the immigrant experience–reading Donna Miscolta’s When…
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Excerpt from Tiffany Gholar’s A Bitter Pill to Swallow
May 23, 2016
Chapter 1: A Reason to Die Devante knew he couldn’t tell her the truth when his mother asked, “Are you…
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Excerpt from Suzanne Hyman’s Best Friends Tell Each Other Everything
May 13, 2016
You confess your deepest darkest secret to Hillary You don’t really remember how you two became friends again, but you…
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Review of People Like You by Margaret Malone
May 10, 2016
Reviewed By Donna Miscolta One of the beguiling features of Margaret Malone’s story collection is the multiple meanings of its…
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