The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/ Literary Arts Journal Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:07:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/hyacinthreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-Hyacinth-H-Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The Hyacinth Review https://hyacinthreview.org/ 32 32 199531397 The Local Haunting https://hyacinthreview.org/william-doreski-the-local-haunting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=william-doreski-the-local-haunting Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7978 The post The Local Haunting appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 7978 Garden Leavings https://hyacinthreview.org/philippa-r-francis-garden-leavings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=philippa-r-francis-garden-leavings Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7920 The post Garden Leavings appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 7920 Flayed inheritance https://hyacinthreview.org/ella-b-winters-flayed-inheritance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ella-b-winters-flayed-inheritance Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7981 The post Flayed inheritance appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 7981 Michael’s Angel https://hyacinthreview.org/evan-tungate-michaels-angel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evan-tungate-michaels-angel Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7921 I was nine and a half years old that summer and most of it passed in a blur as things do at that age. There are some memories I hold on to. Brief bright spots, flashlight beams on the trees at night. I remember pushing the merry-go-round faster and faster until I couldn’t keep up…

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]]> 7921 There’s Fennel for You, and Columbines https://hyacinthreview.org/lauren-tivey-theres-fennel-for-you-and-columbines/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lauren-tivey-theres-fennel-for-you-and-columbines Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7979 -after a photograph of Alexus, 2003

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]]> 7979 Visiting Spirits https://hyacinthreview.org/glen-a-mazis-visiting-spirits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=glen-a-mazis-visiting-spirits Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7918 The post Visiting Spirits appeared first on The Hyacinth Review.

]]> 7918 This Very Night https://hyacinthreview.org/michael-potter-this-very-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michael-potter-this-very-night Sat, 30 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7977 Tom looked up at the white plenum tiles of the examining room as a nurse slipped a needle into his arm. He took a deep breath to counter a wave of lightheadedness and tried not to imagine his blood squirting into a clear tube.  A short time later, he sat in his doctor’s corner office,…

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]]> 7977 The Day I Remembered My Soul https://hyacinthreview.org/nolo-segundo-the-day-i-remembered-my-soul/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nolo-segundo-the-day-i-remembered-my-soul Wed, 27 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7906 When I was 24, I killed myself. I put it that bluntly because it was not an attempted suicide, a cry for help, but a decision to self-murder. Yes, it was a desperate act, a last attempt to escape what my mind feared as lifetime imprisonment in a mental asylum [they still did that back…

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]]> 7906 How Would You Grieve Me https://hyacinthreview.org/denise-tolan-how-would-you-grieve-me/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=denise-tolan-how-would-you-grieve-me Wed, 20 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7907 One day, she said, looking up at me while planting parsley on her little patch of land, one day I will simply cease to exist. Imagine that. She took her shiny, sharp shovel and stabbed at the ground.  Who will comfort you? she asked, shooing the fly circling her shoulder. Mom, her daughter yelled from…

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]]> 7907 Beneath Grandmother’s Sunflower Field https://hyacinthreview.org/lia-d-elen-beneath-grandmothers-sunflower-field/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lia-d-elen-beneath-grandmothers-sunflower-field Wed, 13 May 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://hyacinthreview.org/?p=7905 I return to the house— palms anointed by intention, to steady its posture, to lead it—if only briefly— toward a worth another might one day sanctify. The walls incline like venerable elders, their counsel worn smooth by weather. Windows veiled with memory’s ash. The back porch bends in quiet homage to the river, humming as…

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