Posts by Anna Dorn

January 29, 2026 | Interview

Cat Disabato on Rooting Interest

Anna Dorn

In this book, I kept using the word “buzz” in various forms. Buzz, buzzy. I think I even got the word “bloodbuzz” in there, which I stole from the band The National.

January 26, 2026 | Fiction

Skeleton Keys in the Rain

David Luntz

Those long walks and unresolved questions gave him an appetite. For skin and flesh. The allure of degeneration presented itself again. This time as a salve for pain.

January 23, 2026 | Fiction

The Worst Bar in the City

Lila-Rose Beckford

They traded stories the way people pass a cigarette back and forth.

January 22, 2026 | Fiction

The Last American Landmine

Gideon Leek

“If you knew me, you’d already know the answer to that,” she said. We were fighting I realized.

January 20, 2026 | Interview

Lior Torenberg on Just Watch Me

Anna Dorn

Best writing advice you’ve received? 
Press on the bruise. 

January 18, 2026 | fucked up modern love essays

the Empty Chair

Jeff Radwell

The next day, she threatened to slit my throat in the dead of night, said my sheets would run redder than every last cunt in Orange County.

January 16, 2026 | Poetry

regional terror and its last dream remaker

Madison Nash

There were all these portraits of me hung on the walls and they would dance on the frames,
 the shadow people that spiritually strapped my body to the mattress.

January 15, 2026 | Fiction

We Sell Dreams Here, After All

Alysa Levi-D'Ancona

“You want to go to Heaven with me tonight?” Juniper delicately dropped one of the pieces of sandwich into her mouth.

January 14, 2026 | Fiction

A Brief History Of My Failures With Women (an excerpt)

Alexander Hackett

The universe seemed filled with women, aside from my brother and I it was all women and they did everything and chatted amiably amongst themselves,

January 12, 2026 | Fiction

Breast Envy

Cameron Darc

The cow udder, Freud wrote, was in its form a penis and in its nature a breast, and therefore the intermediary between penis and breast. The blowjob was therefore the image of innocence.

January 9, 2026 | Fiction

Baby Bumps

Dominique Wilson

We had enough coke on us to keep the entire party going until sunrise, and when the late arrivals started trickling in, we got practical.

January 7, 2026 | Fiction

Oak Wilt

Jameson Draper

“No it’s not. Those are weird internet people. Have you tried making real-life friends?”

January 2, 2026 |

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Hobart Editors & Friends

Book: Alice, or The Wild Girl

January 1, 2026 | Nonfiction

An Ode to Cincinnati Crust Punks

Belinda Cai

Cincinnati radicalized me.

December 24, 2025 | Fiction

Fruity QT & DIY Girl

Madison Murray

DIY Girl turns shit into sugar, men into murderers. DIY Girl is a melted qt-colored crayon

December 23, 2025 | Poetry

2/24/22

Nick Dove

Snow misted, or so I remember
I was awake, but only partly
Somewhere beyond dreams
In my space between nightmares
Laying in the dark
And lying that things were still light
Outside, the city sat

December 22, 2025 | Interview

Lauren Rothery on Television

Anna Dorn

Art is, to me, a balance between what you say and what you don’t. What you let a stranger’s imagination fill in.

December 20, 2025 | Fiction

Privacy

Danielle Chelosky

She thought of writing as not just a plea to be seen but a plea to be loved.

December 18, 2025 | Poetry

At the End of the World: 3 Poems

Dario Cvencek

standing around in my underwear
in the kitchen Christmas Eve

December 17, 2025 | Nonfiction

Love is White Noise

Aarti Adv

Last week I arrived in Montreal with no particular address in mind.

It was August 26th and my lease started September 1st. A more intelligent being would point out that there may be a problem with