Lucy Zhang: “Raising Wings,” a flash fiction for Bad Survivalist

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

“The Academic Agenda,” a satirical story by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington for #NoMorePresidents

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

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

Alice Hall is a poet and educator currently pursuing her PhD in the Poetics Program at the University … More

Ritual for Becoming Unborn Become a secret that turns itself inside out become the remotest part of yourself become … More

Set on a single day in 1927, My Red Heaven imagines a host of characters—some historic, some invented—crossing paths on the streets … More

Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape, by Joshua Chaplinsky. Clash Books, October 2019. 174 pages. $13.95, paper. Joshua … More

Soft Fruit in the Sun, by Oliver Zarandi. Hexus Press, September 2019. 168 pages. $19.99, paper. Despite its focus on … More

One summer a man fell while rappelling in the Narrows//We could hear him moan up on a cliff/his … More

1. The Solid and the Vapor I was sitting on the sofa in my yoga clothes when the phone … More

The extraordinarily productive life of curator, artist, and activist Margaret Burroughs was largely rooted in her work to establish and … More