Demolition in the Tropics, by Rogan Kelly. Milford, Ohio: Seven Kitchens Press, June 2019. $9.00, paper. “When she stands, she…
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
“Menacing Territory”: An Interview with WOMONSTER poet Olivia Cronk by Logan Berry
Olivia Cronk’s Womonster is a psychedelic exploration of the “impossibility of a coherent self.” Via several poetical modes—imagistic, confessional, gothic, and surrealist—Cronk’s…
“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…
MISCELLANEOUS LANGUAGE novel excerpt by Pablo D’Stair
I KEPT THE ONE DRAWER of the desk, the one third down or second up, depending how your mind…
THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE, a TRNSFR Books debut fiction collection by Rebecca Fishow, reviewed by Maxwell Malone
The Trouble with Language, by Rebecca Fishow. Grand Rapids, Michigan: TRNSFR Books, November 2020. 192 pages. $18.00, hardcover. Rawness, strangeness,…
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…
“A Retrospective Viewpoint”: Bailey Bujnosek Interviews SYBELIA DRIVE Author Karin Cecile Davidson
Karin Cecile Davidson’s Sybelia Drive traces the turbulent coming of age of Lulu, Rainey, and Saul in a Florida lake…
