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October 2, 2024 | Fiction

I Remember Jenny Stax

Scott Laudati

But the merch guy was always your ticket in.

October 1, 2024 | Fiction

The luckiest girls in the world can turn themselves to stone

Chloe Pingeon

He never returns. That summer, it is just Olive and Rhea.

September 27, 2024 | Fiction

crossing the line

Sophie Madeline Dess

It’s not necessarily loneliness that I feel but rather a burgeoning propensity toward violence.

September 25, 2024 | Fiction

Humiliation

Evan Grillon

“Aren’t hot dogs a little, you know, phallacious?” Sam asked, the words rolling out of his mouth like marbles.

“I’m a Halloweenie.”

“I hate you,” he said under his breath, but just loud enough that he hoped she would hear him.

September 24, 2024 | Fiction

Coyotes

Zoë Rose

Left to its own devices, the body is remarkably adept at disappearing. Left to others’ devices, its
veins are flushed and filled, lips are sewn shut, eyelids are propped.

September 11, 2024 | Fiction

The Big Asshole

md wheatley

I went in every Manhattan bookstore looking for The Cows by Lydia Davis.

September 4, 2024 | Fiction

Numbers

Greta Schledorn

I wanted to feel like a domestic woman, like the kind of woman who made salmon and vegetables before going out. Then I was that woman because I’d tried to be her.

September 3, 2024 | Fiction

The Nudist Colony

Philip Traylen

I have the feeling that, if she wished, Tiff could control me entirely through simple elbow voodoo; just a loose jet-lagged tilt and I would fall to the floor, start foaming at the mouth.

August 28, 2024 | Fiction

Selections from Diary 2023 to 2024

Arthur Sillers

She said she was mad because I portrayed her as a vaguely inconvenient antagonist side character.

August 27, 2024 | Fiction

Tonic Water

Perrie Samotin

Nina got drunk every Thursday.

August 23, 2024 | Fiction

Danny's Dog

Josh Code

I wash the semen off of my hands in the pool.

August 22, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt of The Valeries: pages one and two

Forrest Muelrath

You will never truly know Valerie, because you will never find my son, nor hopefully want to after his trite art project that is endangering us all is laid to rest by what follows.

August 19, 2024 | Fiction

American Pastimes

Aida Riddle

It is a widely known fact that Arledge created Monday Night Football in conjunction with the American Suicide Watch as a way to stymie a flood of Monday night suicides.

August 16, 2024 | Fiction

INDEPENDENT HORROR FILM

Matthew Ciazza

The only clothing I wore was an adult diaper to which almost every older male crew member made a comment.

August 14, 2024 | Fiction

Bell Peppers

Beth Preece

How I angled myself. How I smoke inside. How things leave impressions.

August 13, 2024 | Fiction

Doubt Is a Hindrance

Alyssa Pelish

this an excerpt from a longer story...

August 9, 2024 | Fiction

DREAMS OF SOMETHING LESS AND THEN LONGER THAN YOUR LIFE

Christopher Zeischegg

I knew my assumption was flawed. Not all heterosexual fucking was violence.

August 6, 2024 | Fiction

Excerpt from The Princess of 72nd Street

Elaine Kraf

Sitting there and watching them I unexpectedly got the radiance. My body felt light as a flower, my breathing itself gave me great pleasure and my hair seemed to fly up and outward like wispy silk. I smiled and then laughed. Peter and Melita looked up and laughed also. Such musical sounds. Little bells.

July 31, 2024 | Fiction

The Monastery

Ara Hagopian

Like all bad people he is only bad for a millisecond at a time. 

July 29, 2024 | Fiction

Mirror Ball

Jack Skelley

The darkness of the nightclub is an airborne aphrodisiac, a medium fixating through more or less “real” encounters among empaths of mind, emotion and body. At their center is the glitter globe,

July 23, 2024 | Fiction

A Loveless Man

Katie Rice

 

I hover above the toilet, my thighs rock hard as they hold my body in a seated position. The walls are covered in yellowing images of women from the 70s. Half-clothed, their nipples are big and

July 12, 2024 | Fiction

Pay Pig

Erin AKA Suburban Cutie

On your knees, piggy Macy replied.

June 20, 2024 | Fiction

In Heaven We Live In 2 Dimensions

Conor Truax

The West was declining, masculinity was dissolving into cotton-candy sky. There are few of our kind remaining… his brothers wrote in the Instagram comments of a masculinity influencer. Come with us now, the influencer had written. There are new worlds to save.

June 18, 2024 | Fiction

Smoking

David Stillwagon

Maybe I was smoking all wrong, but it appeared that I needed another smoke.

June 17, 2024 | Fiction

BUD

Filip Fufezan

It’s been two weeks since our last contact.

Bud is either dead, on a bender, or has forgotten about me.

I pick up my iPhone.

 hey. I type.

The message bubble turns green.

Bud, what’s

Recent Books

Pregaming Grief

Danielle Chelosky

Love is like a museum. You have to look around, experience things, and then leave.

Backwardness

Garielle Lutz

Garielle's longest, most peculiar, most particularized book. A sure-to-be collector's item. Delivery 4-6 weeks! 

Dear Nico: the Diary of Elizabeth Ellen (Nov, 2018-Feb, 2020)

Elizabeth Ellen

"Is this the actual diary you wrote at the time? The diary reads a lot like a novel, with its motifs of the murderess, the acupuncturist, etc."   -Garielle Lutz, author of Worsted and The Complete Gary Lutz