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March 13, 2024 | Fiction

Cinderella in Flames

René Bennett

I feel like God with dyspepsia. My soul is vibrating at ultra-high frequency. I want to leave my body. I want to throw up.

There’s makeup running down my face with sweat, but it somehow feels apt.

March 11, 2024 | Fiction

Little Boy Road

Sarah Fonseca

Josephine Aycock’s boy, Jeremiah, was due to start middle school that autumn. In the sun-soaked months spanning summer break, she found herself praying for the thirteen year-old more than usual. He

March 5, 2024 | Fiction

Percocet Helps

David Simmons

Crush ten pills into a fine powder, then stir thoroughly in a glass of warm water. Put the glass in the freezer and let sit for twenty minutes. At this point, the mixture will have separated.

February 29, 2024 | Fiction

Matt and Marie get high, get back together

Will Mountain Cox

They all knew the drugs. But they hadn’t seen each other in years. The drugs were doing well. The drugs were doing fine. The drugs were good. The drugs were good to run into again. The drugs were taller, maybe? Or, stronger?

February 28, 2024 | Fiction

Mosul

Paul Thompson

Waitresses circled the room like vultures. Sometimes I dreamt of laying down on the hot sand, my spine fusing to it, nerves sizzling, going blind from the light, my chest cavity ripped open while they pecked around my ribs—the waitresses, I mean—for whatever they could salvage, whatever was still good.

February 26, 2024 | Fiction

A Unique Way With Animals

Jesse Hilson

So I guess I’m an animal then, aren’t I? Why? Why was I born?

February 22, 2024 | Fiction

Her Special Place

Mather Schneider

She sits in the grass in her special place and she does her meditation. It is the place she has carved out for herself in the world. 

February 21, 2024 | Fiction

Betty Blue Eyes

Rohan Muthanna

Relentless torrents of rain poured down that whole night, gently lulling me to sleep.

February 20, 2024 | Fiction

Jump

Trevor Crown

I could hear the usual blues music booming from Ryan’s garage as I got off my bike in the driveway, sweating through my Smoothie King uniform. Ryan’s dad had started and quit three blues bands in the

February 19, 2024 | Fiction

Darling Monsters

wrath of persephone

So what if I can’t cook? I can clean a crime scene then let you hate-fuck me after.

February 16, 2024 | Fiction

dirty work

El Musgrave

I keep trying not to say, I think about you all the time, I want to come for you, and I hang up without saying it, and then I call you later from my bed and I end up saying it all anyway.

February 13, 2024 | Fiction

Street Blues

R.A. Gallagher

Swallowing those pills at night was now like playing Russian roulette; the blues were, for the first time in many years, the leading cause of drug deaths in Scotland, overtaking even heroin.

February 7, 2024 | Fiction

Sitting Poolside in Outer Space

Joshua Vigil

Between long sucks of her Newport, Jessalyn told me she was still so angry at her best friend for missing her wedding that she’d mailed her a box of crickets.

Crickets? I said.

Dead crickets.

February 1, 2024 | Fiction

The Way I Am

Sona Lea Dombourian

My mother always says it was my father’s fault I couldn’t get along with anyone.

January 31, 2024 | Fiction

Various Collisions: A biography of Sir Tom Jones, as found in Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography by Tom Jones

Jake Bartman

Pontypridd

When I was born, they thought I was dead. My grandmother, who could neither read nor write, plunged me into a tub of cold water. I got started after that.

My father was a coal miner

January 29, 2024 | Fiction

Listening to George Jones

Travis Vick

A tired black horse lies down in a field, and doesn’t get up again.

January 25, 2024 | Fiction

1-800-Celestial-Help

Pascalle Dugay

It wasn’t nice to call her eyes empty, Sondy supposed. Guileless, most people would say. Furtive, is probably what they’d call Sondy’s eyes.

January 22, 2024 | Fiction

Deadhead Driver

Sheridan Wilbur

Your Uber arrives and now you remember you’re not wearing any underwear.

January 18, 2024 | Fiction

The Pretenders

Michael Robert Liska

“Girls like porn too,” she said. “Don’t be sexist.”

January 17, 2024 | Fiction

My David Cronenberg Season

Adelaide Faith

I go into parties wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt that says Bonjour on the front and Au
Revoir on the back, eating candy cigarettes.

January 16, 2024 | Fiction

Dopamine Somersault Blackout

Ray Downs

That comment got 55 upvotes. I downvoted it. I don’t have friends anymore

January 8, 2024 | Fiction

Baby Birds

Miriam Gordis

Getting chemical poisoning together seemed romantic, the closest you could come to being entombed, Pompeii-style, in each other’s arms.

January 5, 2024 | Fiction

Take Me to Your Gravel World

Frances Schnepff

all these changes in my life were made without my consent

December 27, 2023 | Fiction

G.O.A.T.

Elizabeth Ellen

I was in an S &M relationship with myself.

December 26, 2023 | Fiction

You Belong with Me

Nicola Maye Goldberg

This place looks haunted as shit.

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