“Haunted Ghosts” by Katya Lyashenko LRR, June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 Second place winner for The Jennie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction (2022) The thing about living long enough to see the aftermath (living longer than she ever thought she would), is that Josie doesn’t quite know what to do with herself anymore. There was always something before. Something to… Continue Reading
“Moon-Stain and Crawdad Eater” by Charlie M. Case LRR, June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 CW: Death, Domestic abuse This is what is most important: the ache in scraped knees. The crawdads scuttling among river rocks. The groan of pipes in your cracked kitchen sink. Night stealing hours. Ponds like meters-wide tide pools. Mud stealing hours. The leak in your bedroom ceiling, the water damage… Continue Reading
“Knell Inevitable” by Charlie M. Case LRR, June 8, 2022June 8, 2022 CW: Illness, Death It came to me on the sixth night of my sickness, when the suffering had ceased to be new. I had been lulled into those familiar throes which, now that I was accustomed to them, deceived me into thinking that they were kinder. In came something—and I… Continue Reading
“When Treading Water Above a Bottomless Pit” by John Guillemette Jr. LRR, June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 Contest Winner for the Edwin Way Teale Award for Nature Writing (2022) I moved to Oregon during the dreadful forest fires of 2020. I moved out of Oregon during the even more dreadful forest fires of 2021. I came and went in smoke so thick that nobody noticed. As my… Continue Reading
“The Ostrava Line” by Liam Kelsey LRR, June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 Contest winner for The Long River Review Graduate Award (2022) “What would you like to know about yourself?” This was what my neighbor asked me when I took my seat. He was wearing a black suit and had a thick laptop resting on his thighs. I asked him what he… Continue Reading
Blog Building A World Is Not That Big Of A Deal LRR, April 4, 2022February 8, 2025 Longing to design your own one-of-a-kind fantasy or sci-fi universe but unsure where to start? Aiden Pass has outlined the perfect roadmap for you… Continue Reading
Blog Reconciling Graduation in a Disconnected World LRR, April 22, 2021February 8, 2025 Kevin Cox on graduating in a disconnected world. Continue Reading
Blog Why I now have all the free time to write, yet I don’t do it LRR, April 22, 2020February 8, 2025 By Ryan Amato Staying home all day, avoiding contact with others, having less obligations than usual: This is the writer’s dream. Or, at least, it should be. For some reason, the idea of sitting down to write something just hasn’t crossed my mind, despite having nothing but free time to… Continue Reading
Blog Why Online English Classes (Probably) Won’t Work LRR, March 13, 2020February 8, 2025 By Lili Fishman It’s finally happened. After two weeks of UConn students wondering what the university was going to do with spring break and COVID-19 coinciding at the same time, we finally have an answer. After spring break, UConn is switching to online classes for at least two weeks to… Continue Reading
Blog Writing With Sound: Making playlists for your stories LRR, February 18, 2020February 8, 2025 Sometimes to see, you need to listen first. For almost all of the projects I would create before 2016, I ran into a wall over and over again: For some reason, I couldn’t visualize anything about my stories the way I needed to. It wasn’t because I didn’t have a… Continue Reading