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What We’re Reading: May 2020
We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every…
A Haunted Passages Short Story: “Moscow” by Mike Nees
1 YOU ACCEPT THE CHARGES, PULL the latex cap over your scalp. You can already hear the ambient noise…
#NoMorePresidents Essay: “Mohammed and Me” by Mandy Shunnarah
OUR EYES MET IN THE rearview mirror and he looked at me appraisingly. “You look Middle Eastern.” This would have…
Haunted Passages: “The Dreamers of Revolution Never Left,” a short story by Mandira Pattnaik
IT’S NOT THAT PLENARY MEETING. Yet, little do you know, when you plod on through the rain, through the…
“The Tenacious Unicorn Ranch”: Wednesday Work Day Interview by Hillary Leftwich
Wednesday Work Day is a series started by editor Hillary Leftwich to showcase and support creatives who offer services, both…
Bad Survivalist Poem: “Let nothing touch the ground” by Sam Rush
The best way to treat bedbugs scream while screaming wait until you die / The best way move drive…
“The Bitter Kind”: A Recipe for Flash Fiction Collaboration by James Claffey & Tara Lynn Masih
Ryan Bollenbach here. Heavy Feather Review is publishing short pieces on the blog from writers who have collaborated on previous…
#NoMorePresidents Poetry: “Acceptable Risk” by Tara Campbell
“Acceptable Risk” is a response to the “no-knock” police raid in Louisville on March 13 that ended in the shooting…
Haunted Passages: Two Poems by Carolyn Supinka
Haunted House The haunted house does not require a history, but it needs a mouth: a previous, innocent tenant,…
“Accepting Your Planethood,” a guide by Carolyn Supinka for Bad Survivalist
1 YOU HAVE JUST RECEIVED YOUR diagnosis. At this stage, we advise you try not to think about it too…
“‘Survivor Lit vs. Adventurer Lit’: The Varying Aesthetics of Forced Migration vs. Voluntary Travel” by Cristina Deptula for Bad Survivalist
More people are refugees than ever before, and more people are able to publish and read books than ever before.…
PORTRAIT OF SEBASTIAN KHAN, a 7.13 Books debut novel by Aatif Rashid, reviewed by Mahnoor Khan
Portrait of Sebastian Khan, by Aatif Rashid. Brooklyn Heights, New York: 7.13 Books, March 2019. 263 pages. $16.99, paper. Portrait…
