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The Past is Her Punishment by Cole Stapleton

The Past is Her Punishment Yesteryear takes down the tradwife.by Cole Stapleton Yesteryear by Cairo Claire Burke is “the most buzzed-about novel of 2026”. Fifteen publishers competed in a major 2024 bidding war which was quickly followed by a star-studded scramble for the film rights, with MGM winning out and Anne Hathaway set to produce […]

Serotonin – Grant Maierhofer

Serotonin: Writing and Depression An excerpt from the forthcoming release from Hobby Horse Pressby Grant Maierhofer Why, after such notable, such clear, such obvious improvement with the Effexor, back in Chicago, did I walk into our bathroom at the apartment, two or three weeks into the semester starting, and flush the bright pills down the […]

The Pilot

The Pilot by Sam Pink This guy comes in and sits at the bar and asks for a menu. He says I heard your pizza is good is that true. I say yes that’s true. He says alright is a 16 inch enough for two people, I gotta bring some home for the wife. Yeah […]

Two Poems by Rachel Brown

Driving, I See Horses& 我爱家人 Two poems by Rachel Brown. Art by Joohee Park. Driving, I See Horses I swear It is so unnatural to see a horse in a trailer on a highway Weren’t they born to run? Hasn’t anyone the decency to tell them why the earth is moving without their physical consent? […]

The Golden Fish

The Golden Fish by M. Verlaine I was one of only a small number of SamCom employees who heard the muffled pop of the mailroom explosion that afternoon. It was the final Friday of the quarter–always a busy day for the DOCS–and I was wrestling with a pile of forms in desperate need of processing. […]

Plan Z

Plan Z by Mackenna Vickery 01010111 You finally get that raise at work, so you decide it’s time to do the treatment again. What is money for, if not to be spent? And you’ve been waiting a while. It’s been, what, four months? You need this. You need this bad. Worse than you […]

An Interview with Ariel Dorfman

An Interview with Ariel Dorfman Ariel Dorfman discusses The Suicide Museum, literary doubles, Henry Kissinger, and more.by Dylan Cloud There are few writers working today whose body of work displays as much literary and political intelligence as novelist, playwright, poet, and activist Ariel Dorfman. Born to Jewish immigrants in Argentina in 1942, he lived for […]