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 8, 2026 | Nonfiction
Writers' Workshop
Emma Burger
The distractingly beautiful former beauty editor asks me whether I've read Yoga by Emmanuel Carrere, which I have. "Why are you only asking her? Is this a gender thing?" Our teacher feigns offense.
About a Spoon
Kaitlin Roberts
You can measure out your life with coffee spoons and you can measure it by the way someone starts an email.
HOBARTPULP'S BEST OF/WORST OF...2025
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Book: Alice, or The Wild Girl
I Shouldn’t Give Blowjobs Anymore
Katie Haley
This has been a bad date that ended with a bad blowjob.
An Ode to Cincinnati Crust Punks
Belinda Cai
Cincinnati radicalized me.
Haunt Me
Carlie Haunts
In the meantime I will leave the box of mac and cheese I bought to keep in my pantry, just in case I need to feed you, collect dust.
The Yoga Instructor
Ki Hyun Park
I was searching for inner peace. V stopped replying to my calls and texts.
Two Dollars
Tom Miller
It intensified until one of them crashed into me and spilled my beer.
The Cassandra Letter
Kavitha Rath
You were never going to let me, a Hindu atheist, walk down an aisle, in front of your parents to “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” (ok, my fantasy).
Running on Hash and Hubris
Silas Noah
Obviously this is not everyone’s experience during a marathon
Fruity QT & DIY Girl
Madison Murray
DIY Girl turns shit into sugar, men into murderers. DIY Girl is a melted qt-colored crayon
Big Gym Family: My Year with the Chinese Bodybuilders
Lavinia Liang
“Give me his number,” my aunt said, pulling on her weightlifting gloves.
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.
Who Was She?
Mallory Smart
While decorating for Christmas, my nieces stopped mid–garland untangling to perform their new choreography to the ten-minute “All Too Well.” No one asked for it. They were just doing it. Full-body
Even Further From A Working Class Book of Psalms
KG Miles
There are two breeds of love in the world / but I forget what they are.
At the End of the World: 3 Poems
Dario Cvencek
standing around in my underwear
in the kitchen Christmas Eve
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
Hometown Tour
Lucas Restivo
1:25like, I think they tolerate my family, or like they like us, because we're always at the deli
Golden Retriever Boyfriend
Kylie Cheung
I’m steadily acquiring encyclopedic knowledge of the impacts of different medications and antidepressants on men’s dicks.
Four Poems
J.L. Moultrie
journal entry #3
the birds ministered from tall pines
our eyes were
sites of excavation effaced by inner winters
went blind
amid the gorge the
A magical thought, a medical prescription, a reflection, and a reply
Lucía del Mar
I. xaxaxaxa
I don’t consider myself esoteric or mystical, but while tidying my desk I found a little square
sticker with just the number 8 on it; I think it fell off the new t-shirt I was




