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Essay: Sci-Fi and the Trick to World Building in Creative Fiction
Sci-Fi. An abbreviation that has the power to invoke utter joy or disgust given the beholder…
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Artwork: Baby Birds
Oh what soft sweet merriment That carries with it such a beauteous glint In the hearts…
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Issue 35 and Sudden Fiction Contest Winners!
The staff of the Berkeley Fiction Review is pleased to announce the winners of our 19th…
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On Brevity, in Writing
Teachers always told me to write like Hemingway. With that lesson in mind, I feel the…
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Short Story: Attempts
A pop, a rattle and a shake. I hear the all too familiar sounds. Pop, rattle…
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Short Story Excerpt: Harper
The trees are wet. Joey can see this through the small window of his room. For…
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Short Story: The Beltane Fire
Ritsa watched the witches gather. The yew forest behind the hills bordered an absurd shade of…
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Artwork: Whose woods these are I think I know…
While it’s easy to forget stories, their details, characters, and perhaps even the imagery so painstakingly…
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Short Story: Where She Belongs
He fell in love with her sitting on a park bench. Her skirt, decorated with small…
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Postcards from an Offbeat Paradise
Driving town to town, I see little beauties and tiny facets that make and break the…
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