July 22, 2015 |
Montage of Heck / The Wolfpack / Amy
Sean Kilpatrick
Then the world boned its youth one worse. Even if you weren’t participating, they made not giving a fuck popular.
July 22, 2015 | Nonfiction
A Closer Look
Cathy Gilbert
I do not remember this, cannot call up the image.
July 21, 2015 | Poetry
Three Poems
Luiza Flynn-Goodlett
This has to stop— / you're a year dead. I shatter the mirror // with a glare, pace the hall carpet, / but others arrive by dawn, agitated // by thuribles, syllables scattered from / pulpits, daughters buttoned into pastel.
July 19, 2015 |
Flying Machine (Pt. 5)
Lydia Conklin
Lydia! What the heck is the hold up? How long does it take to throw a rope over a branch?
Game of the Day: April 29, 2015
Jesse Sawyer
We are launching a new project, HOBART HANDBOOKS, the first project of which is our Handbook on Baseball, collecting some of our favorite pieces from our last thirteen years of online baseball
All My Coworkers When I Worked At Zeppe's
Jordan Castro
In 2011, while addicted to heroin, I briefly delivered pizza for Zeppe's, a chain restaurant in rural Northeast Ohio.
A Bunt
Evan Lavender-Smith
We are launching a new project, HOBART HANDBOOKS, the first project of which is our Handbook on Baseball, collecting some of our favorite pieces from our last thirteen years of online baseball
Author Notes on "The Wolfman In Barry Bonds"
Tim Denevi
On the night during which the events of this essay took place—August 8th, 2003—the San Francisco Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies 9-1. Barry Bonds hit a home run, yes, his 648th...
Introducing: HOBART HANDBOOKS!
We are launching a new project, HOBART HANDBOOKS, the first project of which is our Handbook on Baseball, collecting some of our favorite pieces from our last thirteen years of online baseball
Some Horns (Pt. 5)
Nick Francis Potter
Well, you see the horns there. They're a good size, I think. And so me, I ask about them, I say, You got horns?
My God This Piece of Shit World Sure is Pretty Sometimes: An Interview with Kevin Maloney
Pat Siebel
I began reading a PDF of Cult of Loretta, but stopped a few pages in. I’d already, by instinct, picked up the pen beside me several times. There were sentences to underline, pages to dog-ear. What
Three Poems
Molly McGuire
fuck me here on this scabrous mountain while we all watch each other among sacred olives fuck away desire.
Animate
Marin Sardy
The story goes that Mario is Luigi’s brother. Nearly all we know about him is that he is a brother.
Non-Reader Spotlight: Rebecca Klaes, Part 2
Rebecca and I read Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and talked about it.
Those Bears (pt. 4)
Jarod Roselló
I heard about what happened last week.
Oh yeah, that was just—
It wasn't right. I'm really sorry about that.
The Child Bride and Her Artificial Flowers
Carabella Sands
His family was there. My family was there. My bouquet was made of flies.
The Guacamole Principle
Mansour Chow
Sometimes we appreciate things a lot later in life than we should.
A Hobart Symposium
Robert Shapard
Authors in Flash Fiction International
from the U.S., Mexico, Israel, New Zealand, India, Australia, and Brazil
respond to questions
Review of Campbell's Soup Slow Kettle Style Portobello Mushroom & Madeira Bisque
Jac Jemc
Words cannot possibly describe the utterly disgusting experience that was the consumption of this bullshit soup.
deaths in the family
Giancarlo Paradiso
Watching the blood drain was the moment she knew/ that she didn’t have it figured out."
Ha-Kovshim
Karen Marron
The tourists stand on the hostel balcony, shirtless, sun on their golden skin and hair or maybe their skin is the sun.
Flying Machine (Pt. 4)
Lydia Conklin
Okay, now -- I'm going to tie this end to the box. Lydia, throw the other end over our tree. Gilly, stand guard over the box.
poems
Elizabeth Ellen
Tanja and I were competing to see who had moved the most as a child.
“I know of at least fourteen places we lived before I was eighteen,” I said.
Tanja started naming places she had lived. She kept naming her grandma’s house over and over, between every place.
2 Fictions
Uzodinma Okehi
Nothing Works: 1
-New York City 2005
I should be through thinking about it. Ok, but I remember just going batshit, breaking up with Vanessa on the payphone. Hanging up, couple minutes,




