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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Jeffrey Amos

Jeffrey Amos Witness Trees The Town Charter. The town of Ada, Texas was founded in the shade of an apple tree on August 15th, 1887, when Arthur Gentry, Caleb Mills, [...]

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Jeff McLaughlin

Jeff McLaughlin Safe There was the writing spider poised ominously over the back door. There was the textured, colorless snakeskin coiled beside the front sidewalk, papery to the touch, it [...]

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