Berkeley Fiction Review

Doll Parts

I hate it like I hate everything that’s Kennedy’s and not mine. Everything that’s got Ken…
Bird Dancing

They said Albert could teach her the birds, so she would go with him to the…
Still Time

It’s my second anniversary, the beginning of another comatose year in a powerless body. Yet my…
Paper and Wings Burn Brightest at Eight Fifteen

Misao smushed the butt of her cigarette into an orange ashtray sat at the very center…
Sustenance

I didn’t know what to do so I stayed silent. He took my arm and raised…
Elliot

Nearly every night for the past two weeks, Joseph Hall has had the same dream. He’s…
She Who Hears the Suffering of the World

Everything here was new, from this country to her husband, to her baby. Everything except Mei.
Variations of Summer

It’s a hot, humid summer the summer before high school, and I’m back in Guangzhou, a…
Issue 45 Release!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the Berkeley Fiction Review’s 2025 Sudden Fiction contest!
Petal heart

Phoebe, like everyone, has a peeling heart. At age 23, Phoebe would call it a tearing,…