Your strategy to win the crowd over with a dazzling display of fancy footwork and lightning-quick jabs has changed, just this second: now it’s close your eyes tight and swing wildly in every direction until you hit something.

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Watching Lucky smile at us it feels like a bunch of birds are released from the spaces between our breasts.

There is ice—forbidding, jagged, sentient—that can form inside the human soul.

Jack is a nice name and a good one for him, but nobody called him that until he was dead.

See, but you have this thing about not going to restaurant bathrooms with obnoxious able-bodied people who aren’t even attempting to assist you in some way.

There’s a pattern I repeat. I’m looking for little moments of perfection, like synchronicities on digital clocks, to pray to. These are the moments it’s easiest for me to pray for my daughter.

We're pleased to announce the winners, runner-ups, and finalists for the 2023 American Literary Review Awards!