I want to go to the symphonyPut on my mohair sweaterThe one I bought at the steamy estate saleWhile you waited in the coffee shop

We all knew that the rain will be heavy. We got used to it. We built a hotel in the town center—high and large, to place all residents. We actually lived there all the time. My room was on the third floor. It was a nice room, not big, with [...]

We are thrilled to announce the winners, runner-ups, and finalists for our 2022 American Literary Review Awards!

We’d lived in a small apartment in a quiet neighborhood in Queens, and while that was better than the place in Brooklyn, once we unloaded all of our things into the drafty, old Colonial, we finally realized just how cramped we’d been living, everything compressed into two hundred and fifty [...]

Jenni was the one who shaved my head. Moments after I met her she held a pair of scissors to one of my pigtails. Don’t you want to be new? She asked.

Two years ago, Connie McHale’s older sister Alexis got t-boned driving home drunk from a graduation party and even though she didn’t die and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t even technically “her fault” or whatever, it's now mandatory for all grads to go straight from the stage at the center [...]

Imagine a MONTAGE in a film (don’t ask what genre of film, it’s still being written): we open with a WIDE SHOT of a busy airport, and suddenly in the midst, we see a pop of fuchsia—ZOOM IN, it’s a girl...

Isn’t this stealing? is what your little sister asked when you unclipped the helmet and lined it with your papa’s red handkerchief, but you only bit your lip in concentration...

Managing Editor Colleen Mayo reviews Valleyesque: Stories by Fernando A. Flores.

Fiction Reader Brittany Glenn reviews The Midnight Library by Matt Haig.