Hothouse
Literary Journal
Tag: writing
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Asher Osborn The faint smell of rubber lingered in the air. The low red glow rested upon my face as I sat in the intersection, tapping my fingers against the wheel. Every possibility of tonight raced through my head. I had no idea which outcome would be victorious. Warning the younger generation about the self-destructive…
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Sarah Forest Cisco I saw through the midlands of my town to the creaking chair where my mother sat, dying while still weaving her gold and purple scarves as fast asever. I look down the dusty road to my aunt’s house. It was as far as our mom would let us roam initially. It is…
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C.V. Schultz Mule-jaw straight to the brain, I’m bordering on a Samsonian meltdown. I got my eyes gouged out on 2nd and Mesquite in a broke-down house with wild cats watching from the backyard. When’s the time to kill again? When’s the time to reap? Did I miss it? Did I miss it? I’m a…
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Eden Rumsey Bones lay silent in decorous spread Across the springtime moor On their wildflower bed. Thrushes in the ribcage Nest along the spine, Raising baby songbirds In lung space and thyme. Swallowtail chrysalides cling to the skull, Dormant souls in flux ’til Ancient instincts pierce the lull. As above, so below: Rabbits burrow underneath…
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Alex Compton I Salt, Earth, and Air betwixt I bathed in the night’s palindrome With ghosts at my back II The space between hair and mind The ardor one clings to A sense; diminished III Fragments form a whole What is this tingling, this sentimentality Water recedes and passes over IV The history of one…
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Cain Yin first day bringing a gun to chekhov’s party, & here i am in the rose colored coat, here i am with old stomping boots, lines of cheer on my good natured face–look, today i am growing old, today i am in a room full of people, today i love them & they love…
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Written by Emily Ogden ANYTHING, PLEASE.
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Written by Kiran Gokal Junot Diaz, the Dominican-American author of renowned books This Is How You Lose Her and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, recently released a children’s book called Islandborn which focuses on six-year-old Lola, an Afro-Caribbean girl who came over to the United States so young that she has no memories…
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Written by Kendall Talbot I thought I had experienced everything there was to experience regarding the Brontës: I have read all their published work, studied their lives in a class dedicated solely to them, and even made a literary pilgrimage to their home in Haworth (yes, the moors are as bleak and melancholy as Emily…
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Written by Madalyn Campbell LitHub recently published an article detailing award-winning books that have been generally forgotten in time. Scrolling down the list, even the most avid reader may find themselves facing completely unheard-of books. These books earned highest honors, yet they have been swept up in the tidal wave of history. How much merit…
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Written Emily Ogden Earlier this month, one of our contributing general staff members, Eleni Theodoropoulos, wrote an inaugural post for our “The Female Odyssey” column, about women and magic in fairy tales. Today, Emily Ogden contributes to that column as she talks about women in Shakespeare. If you are a fan of A Midsummer Night’s…
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Written by Caitlin Smith Love her or hate, her, Rupi Kaur’s impact on the poetry world is undeniable. When first starting out, Kaur only posted to her Instagram account, but now has two published books under her belt: Milk and Honey (2015) and The Sun and Her Flowers (2017). Her poetry has sparked controversy among…
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