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May 31, 2016 | Fiction

Three Shorts

Rebekah Bergman

I saw myself on the Jumbotron. Locked eyes on my eyes looking elsewhere.

May 27, 2016 | Nonfiction

Everything in Order

Lori White

A fleet of pickup trucks and a white panel van have taken all the shady spots outside my parents’ house.

May 26, 2016 | Poetry

The World Already Ended At Y2K

Michael Wasson

The computers will run an error the size of oceans howling crazy for the pale moon & will hurtle through our bodies to get there. My brother says the lights across the river will burn out. 

May 25, 2016 | Fiction

Catch Up Over Drinks or Coffee

Lisa Locascio

It will be great to hear how you have been! Hope we can get to everything in the seven seconds I have allotted our interaction.

May 24, 2016 | Poetry

how close

Phillip Spotswood

[practice breathing, talk to snakes, how to suck venom from a wound]

     -february 3, 2012: “I’m getting better at branching out”

May 23, 2016 | Interview

An Interview with Brian Evenson

Michael Deagler

I want as a reader to be transformed and thrown off balance by what I read, and I try to do that for my reader as well.

May 20, 2016 | Fiction

Poseidon

Tyler Barton

Mathias LaFleur: the first Eagles Got Talent contestant ever clapped off stage.

May 19, 2016 | Fiction

Three Clocks

Kristen Felicetti

The narrator of Ben Lerner’s 10:04 goes to see The Clock at Lincoln Center in New York. The Clock was at Lincoln Center from July 13, 2012 to August 1, 2012, but in the book’s acknowledgements, Lerner explains that time in the novel does not always correspond to time in the world. This creates a sort of magical New York where Occupy Wall Street, The Clock, and Hurricane Irene can all be happening practically at the same time.

May 19, 2016 | Poetry

I Am in Love with My Therapist

Katie Jean Shinkle

Whose hometown are we in in the dream? :: Do you hold my hand or do you disembowel me? Whose side are you on, anyway? :: My confession on this Sunday morning is: we are all human.

May 18, 2016 | Nonfiction

A Brief Family History

Sarah Kilch Gaffney

His first sensory seizures were like a passing light-headedness.

They stopped my mother’s heart four times.

May 17, 2016 | Interview

Axl Rose and David Foster Wallace Fist Fight in Heaven, a Conversation with Juliet Escoria

Nicholas Rys

I’m pretty sure very few people fantasize about being burned at the stake, but I do think there’s something fantasy-like in a witch burning – putting a ‘dangerous’ woman in a submissive pose, publicly humiliating her, watching her scream and writhe as her clothes and then flesh burn away.

May 17, 2016 |

Horace and Pete

Sean Kilpatrick

You have been saved in vain.

May 16, 2016 |

GREEN ROOM / HIGH-RISE

Sean Kilpatrick

Sigh, my beloved. May I be her Pepe Le Pew?

May 15, 2016 |

Lazy Wolf: The Series (pt. 7)

Alex Jiang

Hello, I'm the wise giraffe. Tell me how and why you came here.

May 13, 2016 | Nonfiction

Your Adventures Change

Chloe Caldwell

I definitely gained traction in my twenty-ninth year. At twenty-nine, my skin cleared up, I sold a book. But the biggest accomplishment for me was that I stopped working retail and made my money solely from writing and teaching writing.

May 13, 2016 |

The Rock and the Wave

Kendra Allenby

The rock is slow to change. The wave can be exploded by a breeze.

May 12, 2016 | Poetry

Two Poems

Rachel Samanie

I’ve seen men punch holes in walls. They lead nowhere – I’ve looked, I tried to escape. I’ve seen what happens afterward too.

May 11, 2016 | Interview

Brian Alan Ellis Is Not Brian Allen Carr: an Interview

Elizabeth Ellen

You interviewing me for Hobart is pretty much the peak of my hustle. Maybe this is me selling out. Maybe this is growing up. 

May 11, 2016 | Poetry

scenes from the japanese pavilion 

Lucy Tiven

another kind of crime scene
walking to the post office with A

May 10, 2016 | Fiction

The Boxers

Jen Logan Meyer

One time, a pair of blue Tattersalls, two Sigma Chis home from Clemson. Two, again: faded blackwatch shorts and a stretchy lavender thong, smelled like Obsession. Just that one time.

May 10, 2016 | Nonfiction

Failure to Ignite; A Body at Rest

Sari Boren

For ten years, General Motors knew about faulty ignition switches in its cars but concealed this information.

May 9, 2016 | Fiction

They Reminisce Over You

Tyrese Coleman

Corbin was listening to Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s T.R.O.Y. and thinking of Trina McIver when shot inside the bodega on Fourth Street.

May 8, 2016 | Interview

Everything is Real. Shit: A Gchat Exchange Between Bryan Hurt & Miles Klee

Bryan Hurt & Miles Klee

I first came to know Miles Klee when I published him in my anthology, Watchlist: 32 Stories by Persons of Interest (a beautiful brand new edition of which is out this May from Catapult with

May 6, 2016 | Fiction

Applause

Jennifer Kircher Carr

On stage my son forgets his line and my husband Sam whispers “The winters were hard for the settlers”

May 5, 2016 | Poetry

Three Poems

Philip Schaefer

Let’s go back to the twin indigo suns/ in our eyes. To shooting holes/ through the walls of our skin, one/ metal kiss at a time...

May 4, 2016 | Fiction

Two Presidents

Kyle Ellingson

In my country, says the bulkier, pastier, frowning president, journalism students are admitted to university according to their eloquence in abbreviating my biography.

May 3, 2016 | Nonfiction

Ripped Red Stitches

Dustin M. Hoffman

When I lived in Michigan, I ruined baseball. I recorded every Detroit Tigers game only to fast-forward between pitches, so I could get back to stacks of paper grading, so I could be as productive

May 3, 2016 |

Wow and Flutter #3: Ain’t Doing Too B-A-D, Bad

Tyler Koshakow

I wanted this essay to be about love. I wanted it to also be about my grandfather and Arkansas and my copy of Ain’t Doing Too B-A-D, Bad, a live jazz record by The Bobby Bryant Sextet. 

May 2, 2016 | Poetry

Four Poems

Kate Glavin

When a strawberry’s
sore, it leaks

May 2, 2016 | Fiction

Invisalign: A Product Review

Katie M. Flynn

I’m just gonna say it. Invisalign is bullshit.