Every Issue of Flaming Hydra

Moved to mortification

Images of self-harm, considered by Sam Thielman

Float your boat / Stretch your prose

Anna Merlan on a funerary hack for dating apps; Colin McGowan reads Robert Coover

Protective Papers

Parker Molloy on enduring the coming month

Empty battery / Out of shape

At the beach in New York with David Moore; doubts considered with Amy Chu

The ship goes adrift

Ben Ehrenreich on the news

All-night movies / Unlimited parking

Zito Madu's not sleepy; Miles Klee dreams of malls

Refuse mortality / Recall yesterday

Ceremonial practices of Myriam Gurba, and Trevor Alixopulos remembers

Ruled by chance / Social insects

Watermelons, randomness, Arwa Mahdawi; Joe MacLeod looks out the window

Casual pals / Strict borders

Kola Tubosun visits London, and Carrie Frye on the realest of friends

The voice of authority

Dystopic comforts from Luke O'Neil

Hyperlinked humanity / The rubble of home

Nerding out with David Moore; a young woman's life in Gaza, by Moh Telbani

Some are reading

Yemisi Aribisala reflects on the dangers of the reading life

Touch the heavens / Face the lens

Amy Chu holds pieces of clouds; evolving self-imagery from Jennie Rose Halperin

American hero

Josephine Riesman on 9/11 and Uncle Sam

Unspeakable feed

Some things Sam Thielman saw on the internet

Self, publishing / Turing texts

Laurie Woolever on the jitters; Scocca and Bustillos refuse styrofoam

Tiny cuts / Final fantasy

Sharp remarks from Diana Moskovitz, and Sam Thielman exits, pursued by a beast

Public access internet / Distant Belle

Freenets at the library with jj skolnik, and John Saward visits his old room

Special delivery / Animal urges

A.J. Daulerio on dot-com indulgence; Brian Hioe contemplates desire

Audience capture

Tom Scocca on tomscocca.com, and READERS’ CHOICE poll results

Sign the guestbook

Arwa Mahdawi on the kinder gentler internet

Elf friends / Transit strangers

Rax King waxes fantastical and Trevor Alixopulos stands clear of the closing doors.

Leisure pains / Missing rains

Joe MacLeod hurts himself and Luke O'Neil burns low.

Jewish skinhead

Ryan Gosling in a revelatory early role, by Josephine Riesman

Clear your mind of questions

Miles Klee, internet mystic

Solidarity of the separated / Verse on the mobile phone

Brian Hioe on friends; Salawu on the olden times for poetry

Invisible book burning / Secret rhythm

Riot and ruin

Ben Ehrenreich goes for a run in the outskirts of Norwich

Enter the chat / Freezing hot

Dairy queen / Borrowed trouble

Unseen soul mates / The neighborhood mass murderer

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd's Usenet; Yemisi Aribisala on Naomi Campbell

Fill in the blank / Guess what's torrenting

Gold-decked gymnasts / Gold-mouthed mummies

The adolescent internet / Maternal gourmet

Strong weird

featuring Sam Thielman

Big-screen lowlifes / A year without school

Crisp and chilly

Demonstration project / Pounding parental pride

Free, wild, and smelly / Testicle bird

Midway to November / Feel a little better

Links rotted

Indelible text / Clear-headed revels

In the open field

Flower metal / Country pride

Seriously funny / Neglected shelves

Joyful contempt / Essential anger

Summer stillness

Uncaring and ubiquitous / Esteem shovel

The face of terror / When rats ran rampant

Frame and reputation

Frozen animals

Ripped from the headlines / Conjured from the colonizers

Otherworldly line

Plastic history / Present future

Customer service

Who's your crawdaddy / Games over

Changing lingo / Preserving fruit

The big media payback

Presidential plans / Literary laundry

Speaking distinctively / Baking dramatically

Harried homemakers / Stress-free cookouts

Mouth to mouth / Eat this toast

The world wants to kill me / The kids aren't impressed

Family getaways / Affectionate strangers

ISSUE! 100! .......... Janky Jerusalem / Barnes ennobled

Airline lost my wardrobe / Westeros found a plot

The way we whirr / Betwixt, be tween

The guy in the picture / Reaction time

Stairway to limbo / Slogan symposium

Reborn as spam / Dressed to extremes

Carbon omissions / Public figures

Specious seafood / Petered-out pitching

Other people’s superstitions / Faith in your body

Threadbare patriotic hymn / Newly woven protests

Pusillanimous politics / Dairy derring-do

Too much sweetness / Never enough sweetness

Madonna and childhood / Voight-Kampff voters' guide

Words fail / Born in the dark

The long ending / Short subjects

Devil in the details / Biden's not confused

Community on wheels / Jerusalem in the ’60s

Cobwebbed crime capers / Battling book bans

Nostalgia is easy / Sleeping is hard

The doubtful unicorn / Freud's fighting robots

Love? Nil. / Agree to do nothing

The haunted mayor / Google gas

Pale, uncanny loaves / Connected and dissociated

Books make the writer / Clothes make the boss

Afloat in totality / Nigeria's box office smash

Alone in the War Zone / Writing in Peril