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November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Remainder

After our first week, I begin to lose things during the walks along the creek.

September 22, 2021September 22, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Haiyang

Don’t worry, I said, you’re the sea, and it’s impossible for the sea to drown. There’s nothing big enough for you.

April 30, 2021April 18, 2021 Kristy Choung Book Reviews

Desperate Love: Review of “The Case for and Against Love Potions” by Imbolo Mbue

After reading this story, readers may wonder whether a love potion is worth the trouble and risk.

April 14, 2021April 22, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Anything that Shines

There’s an our kind and a their kind.

April 7, 2021April 6, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

The Mean Streets

I was Indiana Jones, hanging from a rope above a pit of snakes, my moves skilled and sure. My recorder was below, begging to be rescued like whatever unrealistic female heroine Jones would fall in love with and then totally forget about by the sequel.

February 26, 2021April 12, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Nurture

Out here, she knew, was his sanctuary, away from his daughter’s problems. Here, only these more easily governed fruits of his labor existed.

February 22, 2021February 20, 2021 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

Homecoming

I was just taking some time off, I told myself. From college. But more and more it felt like from life.

December 9, 2020December 9, 2020 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction, Magazine

The Jumper and the Gaijin

Nora learns “gaijin” when she hears the teenagers say it. She’s not heard an adult use it, and when it’s said in her proximity the eikaiwa manager turns stern and scolds the student. So while she knows that it means “outsider,” it must mean something else, something a little shameful, the kind of word said only at home.

December 4, 2020December 4, 2020 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

To Be Generous

When Amy whispered in Russ’s ear that what he wanted her to do would cost him fifty bucks, she meant it to be sexy.

December 2, 2020December 1, 2020 Berkeley Fiction Review Fiction

The Young Mayor of Villa Sorgo

With a clogged throat and quivering bowels he’d watched the river of muscle flow beneath his balcony, the white-clad men in their blood-red neckties tumbling through the streets, vaulting over the barriers in their frantic attempts to escape the horns of the onrushing beasts.

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