Fiction by Xueyi Zhou
The Lonely Tower (1879), Samuel Palmer Returning In the world I come from, there are only two identities: the hunters and the hunted. I...
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Fiction by Shashank Rao
Smoke on Cellophane #1 (1961), Frederick Sommer Love Jihad What did she want if not to be caught in flagrante delicto, fucking in the...
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Fiction by Lydia Mathis
Let the Church Say On that first Sunday in March, we woke early. The alarm went off at six a.m. and we blinked the sleep out of our eyes....
Oct 6, 20235 min read
Fiction by Ethan Fortuna
The Sound Librarian Sounds are stored by loudness, pitch, origin, space, behavior. Sample channel: different doors opening, prison cell...
Feb 28, 20235 min read
Fiction by Jackie Sabbagh
The Sugar Daddy You say yes to things. When the Sugar Daddy came out of his car he was holding a dozen red roses and I said Looking good...
Oct 4, 202217 min read
Fiction by Nichole LeFebvre
The Mouse and the Elephant Nora sat hammering a rock, calves in the dirt like a kid at recess. She missed a lot in translation—whether...
Mar 30, 20221 min read
Fiction by David Drury
When God Opens a Door He Closes a Loophole One spring morning, a sinkhole opened up at the far end of the elementary school. It swallowed...
Dec 7, 20214 min read
Fiction by Gardner Mounce
Elevator Pitch She hired a career coach after bombing her twentieth interview. The career coach told her that she must shorten her...
Mar 9, 20202 min read
Fiction by Nick Almeida
———2018 World's Best Short-Short Story Contest Winner——— Gourd Queen Nick Almeida My sister has forgotten her shoes. My sister has...
Dec 16, 201926 min read
"Understanding the Family: A Guide for Clinicians"
Understanding the Family: A Guide for Clinicians Lisette and Gabe’s father went missing when they were nine and seven and never came back...
Nov 25, 20193 min read
The Sundog Years
To conclude their experience interning for The Southeast Review, Diana Calderón, Arissa Cushnie, and Grant Wendt searched the archives...
Nov 18, 20197 min read
"All Hermits Died on Thursday"
All Hermits Died on Thursday The six hermits of the Nantahala region of North Carolina died mysteriously yesterday. On this day, March...
Oct 28, 20199 min read
"Resurrection"
Resurrection Perhaps you know this scene. The man in black—others refer to him as the creature or the monster—approaches me in the...
Jun 24, 201913 min read
"Field Survey"
Field Survey His name was Michael and he was looking up at something outside of the frame of the picture and his grinning white teeth...
May 13, 20195 min read
"Letter to My Sister"
Letter to My Sister I lack some imagination because when I think about where you’ve gone I imagine you are wearing a white robe and...
Apr 15, 20198 min read
Blood Distance
Blood Distance I. Thi There had been nights when they’d wished themselves twins. Twins, at least, could be expected to share a connection...
Mar 11, 20193 min read
"Shpykiv": A Short-Short Rewind
Alex Brenner was a finalist for our 2017 Short-Short Story Contest. Her piece "Shpykiv" originally appeared in The Southeast Review 36.1....
Feb 11, 201922 min read
The Farmhouse
The Farmhouse In the time since Jackie’s death, Laura has learned the truth of existing alone. It isn’t so hard. It means keeping busy....
Nov 26, 20187 min read
Hiroshi's Light
Ernie Wang resides in Las Vegas. He grew up in Japan, and he is ethnically Japanese and Chinese. He holds an MFA from the University of...
Oct 8, 201812 min read
Elegy
Maria Adelmann's novel, AFTERMATH, which reimagines fairy tale characters as modern American women in a support group for trauma, is...
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