Reach Out and Touch Someone by John Milas
May 6, 2016
I’m in the grocery store again, like most nights. Cashiers scan items non-stop, their registers giving off incessant beeps and…
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Hypertext Interview With Toni Nealie
May 4, 2016
By Christine Rice About halfway through Toni Nealie’s absorbing debut essay collection, The Miles Between Me, I wrote this in…
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Hypertext Interview With Rebecca Makkai
April 20, 2016
By Christine Rice Rebecca Makkai’s short story collection, Music for Wartime, knocked me on my heels. The stories are stunningly…
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A Literary Innovator by Amy Crumbaugh
April 12, 2016
Imagine the quintessential French city nestled at the base of the French Alps, and it’s likely that the picture in…
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Excerpt from Michelle Adelman’s Piece of Mind
April 8, 2016
Chapter 1 I was brain injured before it was trendy. Before the football players and the boxers and the soldiers…
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Hypertext Interview With Emily Gray Tedrowe
April 5, 2016
By Christine Rice In her novel Blue Stars, Emily Gray Tedrowe’s gaze scans the battlefield but rests on the struggles…
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The Old Woman on the Subway by Jennifer Hudak
March 29, 2016
You catch glimpses of her between the shifting, swaying commuters: a pilled fleece jacket draped over a candy cane spine.…
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Hypertext Interview with Angela Vela
March 25, 2016
By Shelbie Janocha On the second Tuesday of every month, a crowd forms inside Cafe Mustache, a hip Logan Square…
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Mia Alvar’s In The Country
March 23, 2016
By Donna Miscolta This February marks the thirtieth anniversary of the People Power Revolution that ended the Marcos regime in…
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Herschel Street Playlist by Melaina K. de la Cruz
March 18, 2016
The house on Herschel Street never really belonged to me, but I liked to think that the yellow walls of…
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Hypertext Interview With Colin Channer
March 14, 2016
By Sheree Greer I caught up with novelist and poet Colin Channer at the Miami Book Fair back in November…
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Dummy by Ashlyn Wheeler
March 1, 2016
In the brief time I knew my father, he said, “You know what you were built for.”  He said, “Don’t…
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The Look of Love, Take Two by Ben Tanzer
February 26, 2016
It is late. The sky is meringue. The dress is retro. The hair, which is sometimes highlighted and sometimes shaggy,…
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Heezey’s Wake by Ken Rodgers
February 23, 2016
Heezey caught a dose of cancer. She fought like hell. Took chemo, drank contraband herbs smuggled from Mexico, lost her…
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Once a Boy: Paintings by Sherman Finch
February 19, 2016
 Once a Boy Once a Boy is a series of paintings that explores the lost tradition of a boy’s initiation…
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Catalogue of Panties by William Lessard
February 14, 2016
Blue cotton panties. Finger down the front. She had wondered most about the taste of her. She didn’t seem like…
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Maëlys
February 10, 2016
BY RICHARD HARTSHORN I am in the woods, and I am wearing the stupidest shoes.  I bought them for the…
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RE•WESTERN: Portraits by Felice House
February 5, 2016
This past year Felice House exhibited paintings in galleries and museums across the United States and Canada including: Maryland, Georgia,…
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Hypertext Interview With Suzanne Scanlon
February 3, 2016
By Christine Rice Reading Suzanne Scanlon’s second novel, Her 37th Year, An Index, felt at first like standing too close…
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Crash Where You Land by Scott Miles
February 1, 2016
Lumpy is a no-show for work, which isn’t uncommon with the temps we hire at Front Street Packaging. Most of…
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Collapsing Star by Lillian Ann Slugocki
January 26, 2016
The God light is a window, in a tall building, one block away. I fell in love with it in…
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SEAMLESS by Priscilla Briggs
January 22, 2016
Seamless addresses issues of truth and fiction in photography as they conflate with consumer fantasy. In contemporary China, couples spend…
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Cracking Up by Will Radke
January 18, 2016
I blacked out and when I came to I was flat on my back on the sidewalk outside a bar…
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An Excerpt from The Guest Room and a Short Story by Chris Bohjalian
January 15, 2016
THE GUEST ROOM Chapter One Richard Chapman presumed there would be a stripper at his brother Philip’s bachelor party. Perhaps…
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Hypertext Interview With Chris Bohjalian
January 14, 2016
By Jennifer Bostrom Chris Bohjalian’s The Guest Room, is a story of debauchery gone wrong when a bachelor party turns into a double…
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The Hunger She Left Behind by John Kendrick
January 12, 2016
He stared down at the open casket and tried to put on the right face because people were watching. Her…
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Seven Minutes in the Garage by Tyler Barton
January 1, 2016
0min. After they’re in, everyone’s buzzing. God, what do you think they’re doing? Kyle rubs his hands together. Shhhh I…
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Fiction by Brian Alan Ellis
December 24, 2015
“Aunt Jackie” One New Year’s Eve I trusted this big girl I barely knew to leave with my debit card…
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The Orange Dress Was Her Grandmother’s and It Had White Buttons That Ran Down the Front by Lex Sonne
December 22, 2015
We’re on the Walnut Street bus and stuck in the Saturday night traffic at Rittenhouse Square. The bus shakes when…
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Station to Station by Andrew Marinus
December 16, 2015
It’s a late, orange evening – everywhere grills cool, frisbees  rest, freakishly pliant, contented faces stare off into the middle…
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