The legend is that a bus from the insane asylum crashed near the bridge and patients escaped. One patient … More
Tag: Hybrid
Sara Quinn Rivara: “Instructions for Surviving the End of the World,” a hybrid piece for Bad Survivalist
x The road to Mouth Cemetery is gravel, hardly a road. Runs past a falling-down yellow farmhouse, three air … More
#NoMorePresidents: “Skin Parchment,” a short fiction/prose poetry hybrid by Phoebe Rusch
Interstices Two rutted roads cross in a heat-hazed field. An old man with broken legs leans on his crutches there. … More
Hybrid Prose Poem: “Midway Down Fairmount” by Rogan Kelly for Bad Survivalist
LATER, BEFORE WE SOLD IT for a loss but after you were gone, I drove up the massive hill in my … More
Nance Van Winckel: “Hole in the Fence,” a hybrid collage/graphic/poem-story excerpt for Bad Survivalist
Nance Van Winckel’s fifth book of fiction is Ever Yrs., a novel in the form of a scrapbook (Twisted Road … More
“Samples from a Wichita Mountains Ontology,” a hybrid haunting by Seth Copeland
One summer a man fell while rappelling in the Narrows//We could hear him moan up on a cliff/his … More
“Ghost Tree,” a concrete visual poem by Tara Campbell
InMuirWoodsthere areredwood treesthat are completelywhite, lacking allchlorophyll. They’re called ghost trees, and theydot the forest, ivory boughsglowing against a … More
Essay Hybrid: “GNOME: Excerpts” by Robert Lunday
Kouroi step forward and their smiles are votive candles. How much is lived between the words? What we need to … More
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 … More
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 … More
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 … More
“Field Journal,” a poem-hybrid by Phil Spotswood
the last scientist does not know where the others have gone. he searches the corners of the stone hearth for … More
Side A: “Antikythera,” a hybrid essay schematic by Jenny Fried
L2 I wore girl’s pants, even when I was still telling people I was a boy. I had lots … More
“The Best of the Best of”: HFR Editors in 2018 and Beyond
Jason Teal For 2018 I charted a sort of reading renaissance, rethinking my art and how it’s made—which has … More
Elizabeth Johnston: “Trump Tweets @ Fairy Tales”
Elizabeth Johnston’s writing has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Satirist, New Verse News, and Room Magazine, among … More
