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.

Essays Editor Cicily Bennion reviews Disparates: Essays by Patrick Madden.

The day before she died, my mother told me that I should plant an oak tree in her homeland to make up for the damage she caused all this time by breathing.

Flash Flood Editor Scott Ray reviews the latest record by Justin Peter Kinkel-Schuster.

Read the latest winner of our revived Flash Flood Contest, "zipporah" by Shelby Rice

Made during a period of quarantine and isolation due to the Pandemic, “Bound” is a poem about longing for a loved one from afar and finding solace in both technology and the natural world. From their respective homes and video channels, Erin and Colleen sought visual analogies of intimacy embedded [...]

American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.

Read the latest winner of our revived Flash Flood Contest, "It has been two years since we’ve been to China because nonessential travel isn’t allowed, and we’re still not going back for Lunar New Year," by Lucy Zhang

Read the latest winner of our revived Flash Flood Contest, "A Child of God," by Z.D. Harrod