Category: Hybrid

Claire Polders: “Amsterdam,” a hybrid fiction

Aerial shot. The sun rises over a city of semicircles. Traffic noises are punctuated by shrieking gulls. The camera pans down, getting closer and closer to the earth until figures emerge on a street split in half by a misted canal. I – EconomyNothing is permanent except for the creation of junk. Bicycles. Umbrellas. Handbags…
Anne Riesenberg: “The Leaves Will Protect Us,” a hybrid work

I am traveling through a country slowly catching on fire. Past towns simmering on dusty hillsides, bleached fields rattling in the sun. A girl walks towards me with a car balanced on top of her head—just the shell of it, no engine or wheels. The girl is swathed ankles to neck in a quilted jumpsuit.…
One-Act Play: “The Actuarials” by A.E. Weisgerber

Characters: Dr. Peng Ripshaw, The Incarcerator Dr. Vernon Stackpole, The Rehabilitator ※, The Regressor Scene: February 2028, Mindcast via The PubPol ClinX Roundtable, Cleveland Ohio, and Davos, Switzerland Ͷ Ͷ Ͷ (Screens flare and flicker) Ripshaw: A diagnosis is called for … Stackpole: Do you mean penal? perhaps remedial? PR: I mean machine-like. Simple computations,…
Five Strips from In Search of Basho, a haiku/comic mashup by Ross Findlay & Mark “Fittsy” Fittock

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. In Search of Basho is a haiku/comic mashup written by Ross Findlay and drawn by Mark ‘Fittsy’ Fittock. Both reside in Germany. The comic details the last year of the protagonist’s life as he goes on one final trip in search of the haiku master, Matsuo Basho.…
Three Hybrid Pieces: Marlin M. Jenkins

At Camp This Summer Hussein runs down the rocky hill behind the tennis court in flip flops (though he is not wearing socks with his flip flops as Mahmoud, his cousin, is—white ones with red lint clinging to the toes). Mahmoud: “Wallah I swear to God, Hussein, if you hit it out of bounds one…
Chris Holdaway: Excerpt from CODE: Equinox, a poetry hybrid

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Chris Holdaway is a poet/editor/linguist from New Zealand, where he directs Compound Press (compoundpress.org). He is the author of HIGH-TENSION/FASHION (Greying Ghost, 2017), with recent work in Cream City Review, The Seattle Review, and elsewhere.
“Election Year,” a poetry comic by Catherine Bresner (published in the empty season)

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Catherine Bresner’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Offing, Passages North, The Pinch, H_NGM_N, Cream City Review, Burntdistrict, Handsome, and elsewhere. She has been the coordinating editor for The Seattle Review, an intern at Wave Books, and is currently the managing editor for BOAAT Press.…
Melissa McDaniel Illustrated Fiction: “Horse Girls”

*Ed.’s Note: click image to view larger size. Melissa McDaniel writes and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is an editor for tNY Press, and her work has been published in Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp Magazine, Luna Station Quarterly, witch craft mag, Be About It Press, and elsewhere.
Sara Adams: Three Erasures

*Ed.’s Note: click images to view larger sizes. Head Librarian Erasure from Stephen King’s It Love Poem Erasure from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea His Heart Was Shit Erasure from Stephen King’s It Sara Adams is the author of three chapbooks: Think Like a B (SOd Press), Poems for Ivan (Porkbelly Press)…