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 [...]
Marina Ramil
Marina Ramil Santo Malo, or Patronage of the Lost When Constanza is under the covers, scenes of fowl being plucked alive play out behind her eyes. It’s not carnivore’s guilt; [...]
Marie Goyette
Marie Goyette The Destruction of Jerry As I stepped outside the school, a cold wind whipped around the corner and entered my unzipped coat, filling its loose folds like a [...]
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 [...]
R.M. Cooper
R.M. Cooper Neighborly Winner of the 2024 American Literary Review fiction contest, Judged by SJ Sindu The zombie couple across the street is fucking again. Second story, right in front [...]
Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal
Clayton Bradshaw-Mittal Brandy I met Brandy during my second deployment to Iraq, just north of Baghdad in Diyala, where the Tigris branches off headfirst into palm groves and pomegranate trees [...]
Melissa Darcey Hall
Melissa Darcey Hall The Body is a Hungry Beast Mira didn’t know just how easy it was to fake an exorcism until she met Katja. Sure, there was a learning [...]
Allegra Solomon
Allegra Solomon True Blue People liked being friends with Alexandria because she loved to shut the fuck up. This is what she always told Nikita—that was the difference between the [...]
Sean Towey
Sean Towey Gloom of Night Tiff’s jeep was a tin can on wheels. There was a heater, but the air barely got warm. Cheap fans had been bolted into the [...]
Maha Kamal
Maha Kamal Peace Ganey Winner of the 2023 American Literary Review Short Fiction Contest, Judged by Mike Robbins I started killing Hamza after he began work in Islamabad. His affair [...]
Sara B. Fraser
Sara B. Fraser The Visitor It is two o’clock and Merche knows that her husband and son are at home, waiting for lunch. She puts the remaining fish—two slippery eels; [...]