What We’re Reading: March 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

Bad Survivalist: “Hobby,” microfiction by Tyler Dempsey

I’M NOT EVEN SURE YOU’LL get this. They’ll convince you it’s from Earth, ancient. They (those in power). … More

—after Diane Williams and James Robison BRIAN RETURNED FROM THE WORLD and found Charlene was deceiving him again. … More

I WROTE DOWN MY FINDINGS about what happened that night, but I couldn’t bring myself to tell everything. Not … 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

IT DOES NOT SEEM OVERLY harsh to say the men and women who work on atomic weapons distance themselves … More

Nance Van Winckel‘s fifth book of fiction is Ever Yrs., a novel in the form of a scrapbook … More

CW: self-harm and suicide

WE CAME TO THE HOTEL to end it all. The building sat tucked in the mountains, part of an … More

IT HAPPENED SLOWLY AT FIRST. Slits tracing shoulder blades down a pale canvas back, blood trickling like paint from … More

How much did you learn in school? There are hours when the subjectivity of days and nights overwhelms you. To … More

When you come home from work, the living room is littered with a grease-tattooed pizza box and dented cans … More