Certain Type of Beauty There’s a certain type of guilt in secretly using a friend’s toothpaste. There I stood at her sink, aimlessly rinsing the white bristles of my toothbrush in cold water before lining them with a slab of paste following a quick squeeze of the tube. I hoped she wouldn’t notice the difference
Thursday Suddenly, I know what is in the package. It’s another piece of child, sent to drive me crazy. The package is just the right size to hold a bunch of little bits. The very bottom of the stack of mail is a large manila envelope, full of photographs of people I don’t know or
Водою пахнет резеда Water smells of mignonette И яблоком – любовь.
In the second installment of our Q&A, we asked Jaime Green, creator of new and noteworthy (we agree, but you don’t have to take our word for it, that’s according to I-Tunes!) podcast The Catapult, to answer our signature questions. The Hypothetical Interview is a series profiling writers or creators whose ethos we seek to
New year, new staff. It’s hiring season at Hypothetical, kicking off with two positions (unpaid). These staff will help publicize and launch Issue Two, while beginning the work on Issue Three. Read Lit Bridge‘s January interview with the editor-in-chief to learn more about the journal. Editorial Assistant (8-10 hrs/wk) The editorial assistant will be responsible
Water on Water “Researchers recently uncovered a startling phenomenon — a set of teardrop-shaped lakes in Antarctica that mysteriously move, jogging along at a pace as fast as 5 feet (1.5 meters) per day.” – livescience.com The ice shelf fractures and thins, as tear drop lakes that rest on it slide and move five feet each day.
Tracks Near tracks small gardens the size of graves. A dog runs beside a far-away wall. I know there’s something there. Silver hair, a backward glance, the feeling of loneliness on a significant date. “So close,” said the fly, buzzing against the window, “but this is not the way out.” Riverside Park in the early
The Hypothetical Interview is Everything Else’s new series featuring a signature questionnaire from the editors. Look for future Q&As on the Everything Else blog to discover the current projects, passions and inspirations that drive our contributors, in their own words. Reading Hypothetical Review content for the first time? Stay connected and join us here. V.B. Borjen is a
News, happenings and accomplishments from some of our Issue One contributors. Jim Keane – author of “Monsters of the Book” – is an editor at Orbis Books. Keane writes a column for America: here’s his most recent column on Gettysburg, “For Hell or For Glory.” Poet and prose writer Bill Jansen – author of “A Pack of Cigarettes“ – has published
Hurricane Child Could it have been the fallen angel who sucked the salt from my skin? The water groaned rhythmically, wood cracked. The tank crashed, fish spilled over. The roof opened and the wind danced drunkenly. I saw a child peering past a rabid boar feasting, tempting innocents to ride its back. I desperately
Happy Thursday, Hypothetical Review readers. Welcome to our newest, most organic, least premeditated feature — a collection of links we like from around the web. Whether it is something that speaks to our mission or simply tickles our literary minds, you’ll find it here on the blog. Not sure how to comb through the day’s
Greetings! It’s the beginning of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere and I’m excited about this blog, launched last month. Roberto Santiago’s The Day He Became Queen – one of our August monthly features – was a record-setting poem among readers, with many of you awarding it the Hypothetical ‘star’ and spending time with this intricately
Welcome to the Hypothetical Review Contributor Roundup, an occasional record of what our recent contributors are writing, publishing, reading and sharing around the web and across the world. This month, we bring you updates from our Issue One poets, many of whom are tearing up the literary scene with new books, fresh publications, interviews and
Greetings It’s been a week since our Issue One celebration! Now we’re excited to share
The Day He Became Queen This morning, Elizabeth was dead. Grey of skin to spite the sky, Elizabeth was a sickly child. Coughing more than she ever spoke, her voice was seasalt over oatmeal. Her gait was plain as rain clouds, and heavy as a storm, while her peers’ limbs floated eiderdown with graceful joints.
Violin When my father kicked my violin against the stove there was a crash and the wood carved so lovingly cracked with the force splintered away from the whole into silence I was about 12 years old then remembering my father, the war his anger the broken neck of the violin the collapsed bridge severed
Friends, fans, contributors and lovers of words: come help us celebrate the inaugural issue of the incredible new online literary journal Hypothetical: A Review of Everything Imaginable! This Thursday, August 8, join our New York writers and editors at KGB Bar in the East Village from 7:00pm – 9:00pm for drinks, mingling and some kick-ass
It’s August. Summer is heating up for a final surge before autumn. And here at Hypothetical Review, we are busying ourselves with preparations for the second issue of our brand new online literary journal. There’s nothing like the close of one season, and the unquenchable promise of the next, to spur us into action. And
