Laura O’Gorman Schwartz
Laura O'Gorman Schwartz The Lemon Tree Runner-up for the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Fiction, Judged by Olufunke Grace Bankole I hoisted a lemon tree onto my shopping cart [...]
Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim
Ibrahim Babátúndé Ibrahim A Hymen Tale Winner of the 2026 American Literary Review Award in Fiction, Judged by Olufunke Grace Bankole There is something about returning to a place where [...]
Daisy Cashin
Daisy Cashin These Janky Ol' Wings I am twenty-seven years old, zombie-eyed, and thin, biking circles around Hampton Park in Charleston, South Carolina. The May sun, dragged to its perch [...]
Paula Motta
Paula Motta How to Be a Stargazer See your mother answer the door. The man standing there, holding the pizza. Ignore how she shifts her weight, how her fingers drift [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Shruti Goel
Shruti Goel Zari The gauzy wedding mandaps, laden by the sea, shimmered like they would in a glossy magazine. The sunlight bounced off every metallic surface possible—bangles, chair backs, even [...]
“Contrafabula” by Nancy Huggett
My mother didn’t end up in the hospital with an unknown diagnosis that quickly turned to cancer. The doctor didn’t draw black blood. The moon was not full, never full, [...]
“Growth” by Catherine Reedy
The trouble began the day after it happened. I barely felt anything, but something broke through my right pinky’s skin. It was green, dew-wettened. I tried tweezing. The tip lengthened [...]
Flash Flood October 2025
Flash Flood October 2025 Essay "Contrafabula" by Nancy Huggett Fiction "Growth" by Catherine Reedy Poetry "Motel Interlude" by Sophie Klahr
Terry Engel
Terry Engel Maps My mother waited for me as I pushed her wheelchair into the bedroom. I helped her up from the bed, but she refused to sit, and she [...]
Lauren Barbato
Lauren Barbato The Great Renunciation Winner of the 2025 American Literary Review Award in Fiction, Judged by Kimberly Garza When Lian traded the dharma for a baby, I’d just hung [...]
Chi S.
Chi S. In a Village That No One Has Ever Heard Of Second Runner-Up in the 2024 American Literary Review fiction contest, Judged by SJ Sindu I’ve never been sick [...]
Meghan O’Toole
Meghan O'Toole Awe and Wonder and Delight First Runner-Up of the 2024 American Literary Review fiction contest, Judged by SJ Sindu I found the angel in Alaska. It was the [...]