I Feel Like No One Will Love Me ELIZA SCUDDER (she/her) is a writer who creates comics, flash fiction, short stories, and poetry...

The Lonely Tower (1879), Samuel Palmer Returning In the world I come from, there are only two identities: the hunters and the hunted. I...

Smoke on Cellophane #1 (1961), Frederick Sommer Love Jihad What did she want if not to be caught in flagrante delicto, fucking in the...

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....

The Sound Librarian Sounds are stored by loudness, pitch, origin, space, behavior. Sample channel: different doors opening, prison cell...

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...

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...

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...

Elevator Pitch She hired a career coach after bombing her twentieth interview. The career coach told her that she must shorten her...

———2018 World's Best Short-Short Story Contest Winner——— Gourd Queen Nick Almeida My sister has forgotten her shoes. My sister has...

Understanding the Family: A Guide for Clinicians Lisette and Gabe’s father went missing when they were nine and seven and never came back...

To conclude their experience interning for The Southeast Review, Diana Calderón, Arissa Cushnie, and Grant Wendt searched the archives...

All Hermits Died on Thursday The six hermits of the Nantahala region of North Carolina died mysteriously yesterday. On this day, March...

Resurrection Perhaps you know this scene. The man in black—others refer to him as the creature or the monster—approaches me in the...

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...

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...

Blood Distance I. Thi There had been nights when they’d wished themselves twins. Twins, at least, could be expected to share a connection...

Alex Brenner was a finalist for our 2017 Short-Short Story Contest. Her piece "Shpykiv" originally appeared in The Southeast Review 36.1....

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....

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...