Mirror Girls Kira Bell My sister and I have a single magic trick: when we face each other from opposite sides of a window, it becomes a...

Volume 38.1 Interns DIANA CALDERÓN is an Editing, Writing, & Media major, first-generation college student and first-gen Mexican...

Prophets and Angels Weeping John Luckett I. Minutes earlier, I’d robbed Rusty’s Stop-n-Go. Heart pounding, mind racing, suffering from a...

Next Year in Jerusalem Shira Elmalich My mother-in-law beckons me down the hall. “Come here,” she says, indicating that I should follow...

——— contest winner ——— My Father Teaches Me How to Slip Away Clarence Carter on in the background & there I sit, in my mother’s white...

For Sale, Used At a corner store downtown you can buy a freshly refurbished soul-compacting machine with brushed nickel finish. High...

Ambitious Dream Number Twenty-Three Well, the thirteen-member search committee in last night’s bourbon and coke dialed me up again at two...

———contest winner——— Savannah Story Kendall Lane Choose your ghost. Watch it grow to fill your entire computer screen like a virus. It...

Maurice Carlos Ruffin. We Cast a Shadow. Penguin Random House, January 2019. $27.00. There is a lie that consistently recirculates around...

The Necklace Rachel Weaver On the first anniversary of your death, there were curtains of lightning—bright flashes every few seconds, the...

Erica Trabold. Five Plots. Seneca Review Books (Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press), November 2018. $15.99. “The logic of permanent...

muerto parao dice que insólito es el velorio el orlando sentinel tradición más morbosa inconcebible que hemos llegado ______ a ni...

On the History of Disrepair Augury: The ancient art of telling the future by watching the flight of birds. I tell him, “It is such a...

Useful Everyday Phrases Can I build a fire here? Can you help me? I don’t understand. I’m lost. My God. Sunday, Monday, Pentecost Could...

Mesha Maren. Sugar Run. Algonquin Books, January 2019. $26.95. The question of retribution, both its origin in desperation and its...

———finalist——— & not by sight every year I stretch wider. my arms streetlights, my tongue stubborn gardenia. My hips suddenly exhaust the...

Cut Deep, Travel Far Anne Hodges White 1 Due west and two hours along a bendy road from the elbow of Cape Lookout lies North Carolina’s...

Under the bed, the monsters grow restless. Babushka tells me she hasn’t been sleeping well, blames it on old age, a bad duvet cover, the...

Today Is Another Day in Which We Do Not Hot-Tar Roofs Seth Sawyers It’s another day and our wife tip-toes in saying, Mister, it’s eight....

The Masthead Southeast Review, Volume 38.1 EDITOR Zach Linge (@ZachLinge) ASSISTANT EDITOR Aram Mrjoian (@AMrjoian575) POETRY EDITORS...