I’d never heard of moonburn either before I got one. My skin’s pale as dinnerware. I’ve been mistaken for a ghost … More
Tag: HFR 1.2
Two Poems by Daniel D’Angelo
Eidolon at Autumn Like deadand still seen inthe back yard of water.Extra syrups:more years forcedout of a sycamorefor effect I’m … More
Two Poems by Parker Tettleton
I’m Somewhere Has An Apostrophe It’s honest to feel anything but. I’m older every day, younger every year. There’s beer … More
Three Poems by David Brennan
Robert Frost, OMG, above me is the moon and Mars and scalloped dictionariesof cloud falling open to the page obsoletelives … More
Poetry: M.G. Martin’s “over & over until again”
it’s not that you get better, worse, or stay the same, but that you are all of the above. you … More
Two Poems by Joshua Kleinberg
The Gray—for Frank O’Hara This house is dark like an antique movie.You forget there’s wood underneathuntil the paint begins chipping … More
Fiction: David Tomaloff’s “The Brother Pact”
On this day we find a brother. This brother is a brother in a bathtub quietly bathing. An unlocked door … More
Two Poems by Mark DeCarteret
Deluge After one day of rainwe could feel in our ankleswhere the nails had been sunkand we knew that His … More
Fiction: Robert Duncan Gray’s “Helen”
Helen is dead. We used to have sex. We had three types of sex. The type of sex we had … More
Fiction: Patrick Kelling’s “78 Facts About a Resident of Wabash Landing”
1. You change the side you’re sleeping on only when you feel the mattress folding around you. 2. In the … More
Fiction: Excerpt from KNOTTY, KNOTTY, KNOTTY by Joshua Kornreich
from Knotty, Knotty, Knotty You could hear it buzzing throughout the house. It was a small house, our house. It … More
Six Poems from LEAFMOLD: F. Daniel Rzicznek
The purpose of fishing is to get healthy. Why I dream and dream of oral thrush is beside any point. … More
Fiction: Matthew Dexter’s “The Ant Colony”
Charles climbs the hill above fat camp and watches the children running between orange cones on the manicured lawns, tiny … More
Fiction: Jamie Iredell’s “Killing the Sax”
The Fat Kid and the Fat Kid’s daddy and the Fat Kid’s buddies sat at the bar watching the football … More
Fiction: Michael Sheehan’s “I Love You Like This Because I Don’t Know Any Other Way to Love”
The TV said the bombing was claimed by the Taliban, who’d convinced the informant—a man, a doctor, a father—to kill … More