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Spent
It’s the witching hour, and I am the whittled witch: from lack of sleep, from a…
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Abandoned Things
I’ve been here for as long as I can remember, but I never thought it was…
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Please, Be Sensitive
I finish telling my therapist about the assault. She takes the time to write the last…
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The Glue
I stood up and scanned all the items in the house. Everything looked like she had…
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Drought
He told Jay, “Hold still,” digging his fingernails in the raw, yanking out triangularout bits triangular…
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Comic Submissions Now Open!
We are, for the first time ever, publishing comics in our journal.
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Behind the Birch Woods
She stared at the words on the page and tried to trace their shapes with her…
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Resignation
Martin Ellis didn’t think himself difficult to work with, but when his left foot turned in…
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Issue 40 Release Party Transcript
Read the transcript of our release party for Berkeley Fiction Review Issue 40, which took place…
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An interview with Meagan Johanson, author of “Spent” and Sudden Fiction winner
“Spent” came like this—from a feeling, the remorse of only having one life to spend. Even…
Berkeley Fiction Review 