Stylus Harbinger of what’s to come and what’s coming pure shitty. Peerless ditty at the end of June When … More
Category: Features
“The Human in Me”: A Haunted Passages Nonfiction Essay by Amanda Gaines
THE ROOM WAS STACKED FLOOR to ceiling with antique dolls. It was the summer of my senior year of … More
Three #NoMorePresidents Flash Fictions: Andrew Tran
Moniker MY “FRIENDS” KEPT CALLING ME, Asian. And I was Asian, I am Asian. But they called me Asian … More
Four #NoMorePresidents Flash Fictions: William C. Blome
Talking I’D BEEN SEEING THE FLASHING blue and red lights coming up fast behind me, and so I was soon … More
“Lux”: A Bad Survivalist Flash Fiction by April Bradley
CLAREY SITS ON THE TOILET in the shine of the morning and studies the crotch of her panties. The … More
“Requiem: Fin Inn,” a Flavortown USA poem by Avery Gregurich
for M.T. Let’s debate ovals, acoustics, the moral virtues of curveballs. We’ll do it loud, live, staggering atop the … More
Bad Survivalist: “On Catfish,” a poem by Ryan Keeney
At nine, Dad taught me how to gut a catfish. Thick-skulled, even out of water they are survivors, known … More
Three Haunted Passages Poems by Sheila Dong
fruit i adopt a cat from the shelter, then forget it in a box. the way it stares when … More
Matthew Feinstein: Two Fraternity Poems for Bad Survivalist
Portrait of Pledge Being Left in the Middle of Nowhere on Shrooms It’s Fall. The Pledge Master has me … More
“Under Skin”: A Haunted Passages Short Story by Val Killpack
I LIFTED THE VEIL AND saw ten-thousand writhing maggots. I had found an old, white sheep lying on her … More
What We’re Reading: December 2020
We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every … More
“From Unusual Angles”: Maxwell Malone Interviews Matthew M. Bartlett, Creator of THE WXXT PROGRAM GUIDE
The WXXT Program Guide is a monthly chapbook subscription service that chronicles the strange goings on in and around small-town … More