H.K. Hummel is the author of Lessons in Breathing Underwater (Sundress Publications, 2020), and the co-author of Short-Form Creative Writing: A Writer's Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018). She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and one of the founding editors of Blood Orange Review.
After Marina Abramović If given honey, if given a scalpel, what then?Our choices are laid out before us: bread, wine, grapes, a pistol,and a bullet. A child on his father’s shouldersstares over a sea of people. The room busies with murmuringbefore everyone goes mute. The time is ours,the woman is ours. Men in collared shirts begin to choose:a rose, a… Read more →
Author’s note: During 1894-1895, Annie “Londonderry” Cohen Kopchovsky rode her bicycle around the world. Legend has it she set off with a pearl-handled revolver and a change of underwear—and nothing else. I am indebted to the research of Peter Zheutlin in Around the World on Two Wheels: Annie Londonderry’s Extraordinary Ride, 2007.