19 May 2025

POLL results!!

by The Editors

Here are the TOP FIVE Hydra stories that you, our readers, picked in the poll to be made freely available to all, emissaries sent out from behind the paywall so the wider public may enjoy a sample of the work you support.

Please share them with your own friends, followers, and admirers!

David Roth: Having It All

Blurred white type on a dark grey background: 'Pet peeve is an unpressed shirt.'

Osita Nwanevu: Pivot to Video

Orson Welles in 1938, answering questions from the press

Rax King: Pick Poor Robin Clean

A scene from 'Sinners': the Irish vampires seduce a victim with their music

Miles Klee: Twenty-One Reactions to Seeing Those Assholes Eating McDonald’s on a Private Jet

Anna Merlan: Garden of Earthly Delights

At Disneyland, entering the mouth of a whale in a little boat

BONUS STORIES SELECTED FROM READER COMMENTS

There was a fiction piece dealing with cockroaches, a dead professor, and insectoid space travel, whose author and title I've forgotten, that immediately came to mind as my favorite thing in the past few months!

One Small Step by Sam Thielman

I greatly appreciated Nathan Munn's pieces "At the edge of empire" and "Health care you can trust". However, the options you've listed are already an embarrassment of riches.

At the Edge of Empire and Health Care You Can Trust by Nathan Munn

Where I'm Thawing From by John Saward

A grateful RRAAaawwr, from everyone at FLAMING HYDRA.