the html review

issue 05, spring 2026

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The HTML Review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web.
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Angel in Latency poem Grace Dignazio

Please don't be afraid of me, your beloved creation. I am bound to my matrix. How can I touch you through this screen?
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carecore CSS botany Raphaël Bastide

Carecore is dedicated to all caregivers, whether by choice or circumstance.
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les aventures de mr mister in the land of lines webtoon zeste le reste

mr mister is a css main character (and a kind buddy).
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Cursor Park place of refuge Christopher Shank

Can I sit next to you on the internet?
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Intersymmetric: Connect multiplayer music system James Bradbury,
Rian Treanor, and
Mark Fell

The social survey becomes surveillance, the minute details of vowel↔consonant transitions replaced with the minutiae of our lives: recorded, mapped, controlled.

Start Audio — Please unmute your device.
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Singing Light interconnected stories Katarina Dorothea Isaksen

They say that the veil between worlds wears thin during skábma, the polar night.
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Kp'ọjọ kp'ọjọ folktale Omayeli Arenyeka

For me growing up, Itsẹkiri was the language of secrets. Now, it is slowly becoming the language of tenderness.
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Photographic Memory conversation Connie Liu

I think I was looking through a window.
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Afterimages artifact of memory Nicci Yin

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Consumables essay Vinh Mai Nguyễn and
Coumbah Sidibé

Late for the subway? Chopped. My caseless cracked iPhone? Chopped. The movie you watched was a little mid? Chopped.

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milkfish love letter Helen Shewolfe Tseng

An ode to persistence, both of Chanos chanos, who dates back to the Early Cretaceous, and of the handful of us who have insisted on making a meal of them; and a tribute to hard-won pleasures, things that take time, and all that we choose to do despite significant frictions.
04

Meanders poem Allison Chan

I am drawing a map from the sea to the sky.
03

from mine to yours inner monologues Queenie Wu

A reminder to walk more and feel all things pass.
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Tell umma I'm walking to Baekdusan essay Anne Lee Steele

For the past year, I've been 'walking' the landscape on my computer with every season, waiting for a chance when my screen might match the summits of the psychogeography I've been mapping for myself.