Bonnie & Jack Bonnie collects Jack from rehab. Fucking bougainvillea everywhere. “Thanks.” He slides into the passenger seat, tosses a … More
Tag: HFR 2.2
Fiction: Trent England’s “Patience Is the Most Passive Discipline”
The woman walking toward me is not the woman I last saw four years ago. My wife exits the airport … More
Poetry: “A Slow Pickling” by Tara Boswell
a drowned and legless female {insert your animal here}how sweet watch her commitment to being a life raftno just a … More
Fiction: Joe Baumann’s “A Paper House”
When we knock on your door only a week after your husband’s suicide, flashing our badges even though we don’t … More
Fiction: Jane Liddle’s “The Last List”
When she was born, her mom was on her back, in the hospital, confused and in a hazy pain, twilit … More
Fiction: Anne Valente’s “Like the Light of Blue Water”
The voices came again, drifting through brick walls, and Simon stopped typing once more, listened through the apartment’s silence. The … More
Three Poems by Jared Joseph
As She Added the Dirt to Her Beauty She added the alphabet to her Fabulous muscles I died there. Before … More
Poetry: Al Ortolani’s “Buddhists Call It Monkey Mind”
Take toothpaste for instance―white foam splatteredon the mirror, on the vanity,on the chrome faucet.Each time you spit,lather drips down your … More
Two Poems by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Monster Dolls Baby monsters with their stuffed teddy bear monster dolls, like regular dolls, only horrific, wounded, dangerous; which baby … More
Poetry: Ace Boggess’ “Has the Music Faded at All?”
—Lawrence Watt-Evans, Night of Madness The walls have learned a low hum—basso, staccato—like a tuba stuck in a wind tunnelor … More
Three Fictions from FIRST PRESIDENTS: Joseph Scapellato
James Madison James Madison stood on a log shaped like the limb of a great man. He was as short … More
Three Poems by Dan Chelotti
Depth of Field There are four triangular slotsto hold the pictures downand some have been there so longthey’re stuck. They … More
