Reservoir Taneum Bambrick 2017 Yemassee Journal Review by Emily Montgomery Bring this book to your nearest natural area. A national forest, a city park. A local lake. Look around. Find a bench to sit on for a little while. Enjoy a moment with the songs of the marsh...
Her fiction and poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She was awarded a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, served as the 2018...
8 chickens in a papier mache human: a bedtime story Laura Villareal from 45.1 for Alfredo Aguilar imagine if it was steam powered, the brass endoskeleton heaving. angled movements, rigid. 16 taloned feet pulling levers in tight precision. roiling clouds...
On “First Seen in Print in 1987, According to Merriam Webster” Krys Malcolm Belc My original New York City Certificate of Birth, issued in July 1987, is a beautiful document. I love the weathered pink paper, the texture, the seal and signatures. I stare at...
We’re immensely proud to nominate these extraordinary works for The Best Small Fiction. The work that comes through our pages are each extraordinary or amazing in a number of ways, and these particularly pieces resonated with us long after we’ve read them...
