“from WINSOME SCHERZOS”: Two Haunted Passages Poems by Adam Strauss

Stylus Harbinger of what’s to come and what’s coming pure shitty. Peerless ditty at the end of June When … More

“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

Moniker MY “FRIENDS” KEPT CALLING ME, Asian. And I was Asian, I am Asian. But they called me Asian … More

Talking I’D BEEN SEEING THE FLASHING blue and red lights coming up fast behind me, and so I was soon … More

CLAREY SITS ON THE TOILET in the shine of the morning and studies the crotch of her panties. The … More

for M.T. Let’s debate ovals, acoustics, the moral virtues of curveballs. We’ll do it loud, live, staggering atop the … More

At nine, Dad taught me how to gut a catfish. Thick-skulled, even out of water they are survivors, known … More

fruit i adopt a cat from the shelter, then forget it in a box. the way it stares when … More

Portrait of Pledge Being Left in the Middle of Nowhere on Shrooms It’s Fall. The Pledge Master has me … More

I LIFTED THE VEIL AND saw ten-thousand writhing maggots. I had found an old, white sheep lying on her … More

We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every … More

The WXXT Program Guide is a monthly chapbook subscription service that chronicles the strange goings on in and around small-town … More