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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Manifest Destiny and A Lesson in Abstraction/Distraction – 2020 Time Capsule by Ashley M. Jones
September 23, 2021
Manifest Destiny and so he learned that the land could be called a name so he called it mine.and so…
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Alternate Names for My Children by Nikki Wallschlaeger
September 20, 2021
1. baby bean 2. baby pie 3. pretty baby 4. baby fish 5. baby love 6. bean pie 7. bean…
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Face Reading by Travis Chi Wing Lau
September 17, 2021
Two fingers can turnwith ease to violence: some things must not bepermitted to grow, so I weed with the white…
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Excerpt: D.W. Hogan’s UNBROKEN BONDS
September 17, 2021
By D.W. Hogan Mary watched at a distance as new girls arrived to fill the beds once occupied by her…
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One Question: D.W. Hogan
September 17, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked D.W. Hogan, author of Unbroken Bonds, “What are you hoping to accomplish by telling the fictional story about four…
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Four Snakes Makes Our Flag: Three Sonnets by C.T. Salazar
September 13, 2021
Four Snakes Makes Our Flag Said swallowtail and we butterflied. Saidthere’s nothing to fight for and all the guns broke.Said…
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Nine Years Later We Ride an ATV out in the Country by Kwoya Fagin Maples
September 9, 2021
a dark worry between your eyes, pulling thehelmet over my head—still worried I might get hurt—leave us—you alone with our…
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Dear Ms. Sahar :: Letter Between Translations by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
September 6, 2021
We argue how to say where we’regoing. Home is the only translationI can accept. She counters that the word I…
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Excerpt: Spencer Fleury’s HOW I’M SPENDING MY AFTERLIFE
September 2, 2021
By Spencer Fleury Nicole Before we start, I think you should know that I am not the sort of person…
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Everyone Is Smiling by Rebecca Reynolds
September 2, 2021
At low tide, Scylla is a silent, blue mound rising from the beach. Ollie and JJ follow you closer, dragging…
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One Question: Spencer Fleury
September 2, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Spencer Fleury, author of How I’m Spending My Afterlife, “Neither of the main characters in your book…
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Writing to Fill In the Blanks: An Interview with Ana Castillo
August 31, 2021
Interview by Jael Montellano There is something about Ana Castillo’s latest poetry collection, My Book of the Dead, that has…
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Solutions to Love by Rachel Stempel
August 30, 2021
I’ve a dentist appointment lurking on the horizon like a knitting needle in plush carpet. I’m very in tune with…
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Excerpt: Grace Agnew’s SANCTUARY
August 27, 2021
By Grace Agnew On her second day of walking, Miranda saw clouds hardening into mountains that leaned ominously as if…
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One Question: Grace Agnew
August 27, 2021
Hypertext Magazine asked Grace Agnew, author of Sanctuary, “What is the point of writing about climate change when there is…
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Before the Devil Even Knows You’re There by Penny Milam
August 27, 2021
Maybe his lean, pocked face, camouflage cap, and plaid flannel under butterscotch Carhartt overalls didn’t suggest it, but Mason Granger…
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Fiction by Sudha Balagopal
August 23, 2021
Happy Birthday Myra pushes the grocery cart past her husband’s favorite crucifers, cabbage and kale, glowing like emeralds. She propels…
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