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First runner-up in the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction. Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol Coyote appears. “We leave tomorrow. Please be ready.” “And the storm? This ...

El Coyote by Micheal Sarabia

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Q stepped out of his car and closed the door as a rush of heat filled his lungs. The noxious smell of petroleum dizzied his head. Q listened for oncoming traffic as he passed by a long row of nested shopping carts being ...

Pour by Daniel Verret

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Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of flash fiction. Final Judge: Ellen Meeropol It tugs at my nipple. Only the first pull is uncomfortable, then it finds its rhythm. I ...

Put A Teat In It! by Jennifer Lewis

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Winner of the 2020 Los Angeles Review Literary Awards, in the category of short fiction. Final Judge: Kristen Millares Young Liu Ge woke up to a sky so bright that he thought he had slept until noon. He checked ...

Marseille in Light by An Yu

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No one had ever heard him speak, so when Hayden Boyd stepped into the tire pit at Ridgemont Middle School and invoked Suicide #5, the boys broke into nervous laughter, shaken by the unexpected depth of his voice and the ...

Hearsay by John Phillips

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When Small Man looks past the glare of spotlights, into the audience, he can see their white teeth gleaming, their smiles ear to ear.  He’s thinking about this song he’s playing, this horrible slack key song called ...

What Covers the House is a Roof by Matthew R. K. Haynes

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Dear Artist, First, thank you for allowing me to provide feedback on your metal-and-glass sculpture titled “Dining Table ContempoDempo II.” It takes gumption on the part of the artist to allow someone with an eye ...

Retired Art Critic Brian Sewell Gets Rehired as an IKEA Furniture Quality Control Manager by José Enrique Medina

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Before Mariko went missing, she liked to swim in the open water of the cove, just beyond the tide pools. On days when there was no surf, waves, or wind when sails hung still on catamarans and the sun soaked into the ...

Mariko by Kaylie Saidin

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They arrived the summer after Celine’s divorce, when the Asian pear bore ruddy fruit that she hadn’t the vigor to pick. A pair of ravens swooped in to glean the rotting pears beneath the tree. They built a nest in ...

S.O.S. by Teresa H. Janssen

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