Excerpt: Jessica Bell’s A TIDE SHOULD BE ABLE TO RISE DESPITE ITS MOON
March 10, 2023
By Jessica Bell A breath of earth hides in shallow water. A small boy disrupts its peace as he plucksit…
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One Question: Jessica Bell
March 10, 2023
Hypertext Magazine asked Jessica Bell, author of A Tide Should Be Able to Rise Despite Its Moon, “Why are all…
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Cosmodrift by Jordan Nishkian
March 7, 2023
The sky was still pink with morning by the time Celia had Namid seated at the kitchen table. The floor…
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November Forest by Will Neal
March 7, 2023
In the darkness between aspens like obscure pillars of mottled silver mist drifted over the ground and toward the sky…
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Good Farmers Tend Their Crops by Andréa Rivard
March 7, 2023
The Henderson family moved to Burlington so that John could open another Dollar General. John already had a successful store…
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Altar by Erin Miller
March 7, 2023
The boy’s hands crashed around the bird, easy as anything else. His body was rigid for a second, tense with…
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Dear Captain by Alex Sese
March 7, 2023
You wake up early, like always, even before the ship’s environment system says it’s time to turn on the lights…
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Charlie Learns an Important Lesson by Odette Lester Brady
March 7, 2023
Charlie puts the first scream down to a nightmare. She waits for it to evaporate, for the soft edge of…
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Find Your Light by Allison Vincent
March 7, 2023
 CONTENT WARNING: DISCUSSION OF DEATH, GRIEF, LOSS Michel had spent so long pretending to escape from a box that Alphonse…
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An Order of Fishes by Calla Nell Preece
March 7, 2023
One day we were talking. She would never hide her talking much about anything, but she was struggling now. We…
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Don’t You Forget About Me by Richard Goodwin
March 7, 2023
The tree stood at the edge of a polluted field that bordered a high-security prison. Each year she would drive…
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Poetry by Kathleen Rooney
March 7, 2023
Wind Who can claim they came to Chicago for the weather? City of windbags, city of wind. Sometimes I say…
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Poetry by E. Hughes
March 7, 2023
On Her Leaving Once, a man called us the original sin.I call what we were my attempt to walkon the…
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Poetry by Virginia Bell
March 7, 2023
June 24, 2022 Tomorrow, I will attend a workshop titled Singingin the Dark Times. Never mind that I tell my…
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Unspoken by Natasha Mijares
March 7, 2023
I abandon my anthemI blame cacophonyI confess fableA fabulous gramophone I preface the symphonyA losing bridge How does the wind…
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Poetry by Jessica L. Walsh
March 7, 2023
On Television, Birds Sing When You’re Sober but no one tells you that being clean means a clear eyeon your…
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I Want to Be Joe Manchin’s Momma by Teresa Scollon
March 7, 2023
I want to be Joe Manchin’s momma,to set myself down at the kitchen tablewith a cup of tea and wait…
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Building a Bigger Raft by Fleda Brown and Teresa Scollon
March 7, 2023
Fleda Brown and Teresa Scollon discuss writing into grief, including the grief of the planet. Fleda Brown: You could say…
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That Time I Said I Would Have Written a Shitty Draft Sooner if I Knew it Would Make You Say You Loved Me, and You Answered Back, “I Thought You Knew” by Elissa Field
March 7, 2023
You are angry with me, climbing the improvised fire escape stairs up to Hemingway’s office above the garage behind his…
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Creative Nonfiction by Jamey Temple
March 7, 2023
FOR A BABY NEVER BORN You began like most—made from two people holding onto one another, whispering I love you,…
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The Catch by Joey Garcia
March 7, 2023
 CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, GRIEF, LOSS When my cell phone rang that November 4, I was in bed, tucked between clean…
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Grief by Melissa Nunez
March 7, 2023
1. Grief can be described as a (bouncing) ball in a box*. The box also holds a button that when…
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Creative Nonfiction by Amie McGraham
March 7, 2023
BURN AFTER READING It began with the letters. At night when my father came home from work, he’d take me…
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Thoughts During Various Planning Periods in October by Carson Ovalle
March 7, 2023
CONTENT WARNING: SUICIDE, SELF HARM, REFERENCE TO SEXUAL ABUSE You watched about six minutes of a documentary once about fur…
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Points of Entry by Sydney Koeplin
March 7, 2023
CONTENT WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT Every night I play a game with myself. I cocoon myself with my comforter, so only…
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No Shoes by Laura Hawbaker
February 13, 2023
Flash floods are nasty sons-a-bitches. Devious. Duplicitous. They trickle at first, and you think Aw, it’s not so bad. You…
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A Bloodline to the Ancients by Brian K. Hauser
January 31, 2023
 CONTENT WARNING: INSTANCES OF BULLYING & HOMOPHOBIA The schoolkids mill along the steps of St. Andrew’s Primary waiting for the…
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Exploring the Strange-Familiar World of Ancient Monks: An Interview with Jamie Kreiner
January 27, 2023
By Lorraine Boissoneault Historian Jamie Kreiner’s new book The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Minds Tell Us About Distraction tells a…
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The New Gender and Sexual Revolution: An Interview with Catherine M. Roach
January 20, 2023
By Meghan Shannon Catherine Roach wants us to have good sex.  Roach, a Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at…
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Expanding Latinidad: An Interview With Ruben Quesada
December 16, 2022
By Jael Montellano When I was eight, I thumbed through a book of poetry in my mother’s library, a compendium…
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