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Tag: short fiction

December 7, 2022December 5, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

What is There Time For

All joking aside, time travel, like breaking up, is something we do to ourselves. It’s effectual. It’s our fault and only our goddamn fault.

November 30, 2022November 29, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Every Room

I try to be your daughter. I try to make you my mother.

October 20, 2022October 20, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction, Magazine

Life on the Water

The morning wind swirled down cool and soft from the mountains, shaking the tops of the short pines on the foothills, stirring the dust at Ignacio’s feet and raising his hopes. He leaned back against the car, black and sleek, borrowed from his brother, and fingered the coins in his pocket.

October 12, 2022October 10, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction, Magazine

Homestead

Harvest day is the most important day of the week.

September 28, 2022September 28, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Versos de mi Alma

I am sitting in my mother’s red Bonneville station wagon. Mamá’s hair is still black and long and flows over the back of the seat.

September 14, 2022September 11, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Cues

This is your stage manager. If you haven’t already, please sign in.   My attention flips between the pages of a nearly failed history midterm and the unopened prompt book, today’s bible. I open the binder, and my fingers glide over the script—sound and lighting cues, lists, drawings, and contact sheets. The booth is dim and … Continue reading Cues

September 7, 2022September 6, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Les Chanteurs

"Sometimes, when your windows are open, I hear you singing."

February 25, 2022February 25, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Interviews

“Short, colorful, Twilight Zone-y Tales”: An interview with Ben Loory, Sudden Fiction guest judge and author of Tales of Falling and Flying

I decided early on that I was going to write my stories...in my own voice, my own words, with my own sense of humor and my own actual grammar and peculiarities of speech… everything exactly the way I would tell it.

January 12, 2022June 2, 2022 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

The Drive to the Crematorium 

On the drive to the crematorium, I think I make peace with your death.

November 24, 2021November 23, 2021 Julia Cheunkarndee Interviews, Magazine

An Element of Sacrifice: Interview with Emily Dezurick-Badran, author of Issue 41 story “Remainder”

Sacrifice can be this totally joyful choice that people make, which is something that I've come to terms with more, recently.

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