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Mr. Truhart, Amy Clements Apr 2024

Mr. Truhart, Amy Clements

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Roadside Memorials, Karen Guzman Apr 2024

Roadside Memorials, Karen Guzman

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Attics, Mark Brazaitis Apr 2023

Attics, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Youth In Asia, E.H. Jacobs Apr 2023

Youth In Asia, E.H. Jacobs

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Exuvia, Andie Tursi Apr 2023

Exuvia, Andie Tursi

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


We Must Not Disturb The Peace, Nicole Cifani Lehmann-Haupt Apr 2023

We Must Not Disturb The Peace, Nicole Cifani Lehmann-Haupt

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Heart Of A Monster, Gabriella King Apr 2023

Heart Of A Monster, Gabriella King

Bryant Literary Review

No abstract provided.


Return To The Country Of The Crime, Dan Grossman Apr 2023

Return To The Country Of The Crime, Dan Grossman

Bryant Literary Review

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Poof!, Kathie Giorgio Apr 2022

Poof!, Kathie Giorgio

Bryant Literary Review

When I was nine years old, a boy socked me on the arm at recess. He hit hard, enough to cause me to cry out, to bring tears to my eyes, though I wouldn’t let them escape.


Come, Gentle Night., Michael Washburn Apr 2022

Come, Gentle Night., Michael Washburn

Bryant Literary Review

Arthur took one look at the forlorn stranger standing by the stone wall at the base of the hill in the cool evening and thought: Gordon Comstock.


The Unvanquished, Marlene Olin Apr 2022

The Unvanquished, Marlene Olin

Bryant Literary Review

“Retirement is overrated,” said Morris.


Beyond Poland, Rosalind Goldsmith Apr 2022

Beyond Poland, Rosalind Goldsmith

Bryant Literary Review

Her body can’t escape the cold but her mind can. It casts up through the night, scattering itself into the sky over the Atlantic Ocean.


Adelaster, Deborah S. Prespare Apr 2022

Adelaster, Deborah S. Prespare

Bryant Literary Review

To prevent herself from slipping into another chaotic downward cycle of panicked anxiety, she squashes the rising tide, drops in the toilet her pill-shaped companions, and sizing up her failing reflection, chooses the last-ditch, arduous path left to an imprisoned soul.


Night In The City Looks Pretty To Me, Roger Logan Apr 2022

Night In The City Looks Pretty To Me, Roger Logan

Bryant Literary Review

Allison was trying to come up with a version of that old joke. A kangaroo or whatever walks into a bar and the bartender says, “Say, we don’t get many kangaroos in here.”


Not A Piece Of Furniture, Alex Smith Apr 2022

Not A Piece Of Furniture, Alex Smith

Bryant Literary Review

On the first day of the first job I got after Javier was deported, I tried to ignore the couple’s fighting.


Night Terrors, Patrick Bernhard Apr 2022

Night Terrors, Patrick Bernhard

Bryant Literary Review

Kara turned away from the TV and glanced at the glowing wall clock. 2:56. She had now passed her previous record for staying up watching Night Terrors, which was 2:37.


Swimming Lessons, Rebecca Mear Apr 2021

Swimming Lessons, Rebecca Mear

Bryant Literary Review

It was time to learn to swim.


I Am Not A Home, Kiley Mcaleer Apr 2021

I Am Not A Home, Kiley Mcaleer

Bryant Literary Review

I am from many places, but none of them have ever quite been home. A mint green house where neighbors are always yelling and my dad comes to visit for a few hours every other weekend.


Minutiae 973.1, Lila Bovenzi Apr 2021

Minutiae 973.1, Lila Bovenzi

Bryant Literary Review

The law of conservation of mass states that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. If something is taken from the earth, it has to be replaced, or else the universe will fall into disharmony.


Why I Cry For Little Girls, Julia Raboy Apr 2021

Why I Cry For Little Girls, Julia Raboy

Bryant Literary Review

I like working with little kids, and since I have been old enough to be employable, my main source of income has been from childcare: camp counselor, babysitter, nursery school “teacher,” etc.


La Escucho, Leah Ryan Apr 2021

La Escucho, Leah Ryan

Bryant Literary Review

When I started my career as a passionate photojournalist, I never expected it to be my demise. I was a naïve 20-something-year-old, ready to leave the United States and travel the world, capturing its majesty with the click of a lens. That was when there was beauty to capture…


Going For Wood, Molly Vaux Jan 2020

Going For Wood, Molly Vaux

Bryant Literary Review

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I would never have chosen a window seat, but there I was, staring at great banks of clouds while the plane, rocked by invisible currents, sailed upward.


Mud And Truth, Hannah Kass Jan 2020

Mud And Truth, Hannah Kass

Bryant Literary Review

Tsofi knew the story since her mother began telling it to her and her brother almost every night. Other villagers would notice how her people did not eat the same meat or observe the same day of rest. In her mind those differences were as arbitrary as preferring to eat lamb or chicken. Yet such arbitrary reasons had sparked the most violent of reactions.


An Open Letter To The White Feminists Holding A Literary Panel On Toni Morrison, Matthew E. Henry Jan 2020

An Open Letter To The White Feminists Holding A Literary Panel On Toni Morrison, Matthew E. Henry

Bryant Literary Review

look to your left, your right—where

are her sisters? why are they missing?


A Sweet Kid, William Torphy Jan 2020

A Sweet Kid, William Torphy

Bryant Literary Review

I wait anxiously in the United terminal sipping a cup of coffee and feeling ungrounded. My nephew’s flight from Baltimore is late because of a severe weather system over the Midwest. My sister Kat tells me that Justin has become very selfish, even for a teenager, and that he lies and constantly tries to manipulate.


Jaffa Coffee, Tehila Wenger Jan 2020

Jaffa Coffee, Tehila Wenger

Bryant Literary Review

The waitress placed the cappuccino down carefully on my left, next to the open computer. I glanced into the mug and noted that there was no design in the foam. My anticipation for the caffeinating process dropped immediately by several degrees, along with my belief in the basic goodness of mankind.


Weeds In Her Curly Hair, Hareendran Kallinkeel Jan 2020

Weeds In Her Curly Hair, Hareendran Kallinkeel

Bryant Literary Review

“I need a dagger,” Shiva says, “double-edged…and razor-sharp.”

The blacksmith turns from his furnace and stares at him in
surprise. What the hell is a renowned writer doing here? he thinks as he
stands up and walks towards Shiva.


Dreams Of Flight, Beth Paulson Jan 2020

Dreams Of Flight, Beth Paulson

Bryant Literary Review

A man with wings large enough and duly attached might learn to overcome the resistance of air. Leonardo da Vinci

No Icarus, you knew pulleys and winches would keep a man tethered
to earth though he rise high above a stage for a duke’s entertainment.
In your fabrico you built mechanical birds of wood and bright-dyed
linen, then raised men up on ropes to fly and float, angels with dark
curls, gilt-edged wings.


That Thing, Susan Taylor Chehak Jan 2020

That Thing, Susan Taylor Chehak

Bryant Literary Review

My pap’s eyes are bad. It’s not the books or the computer, not the
peering at small letters on a page or on a screen. And it isn’t just a
consequence of age either. His peepers went bad a long time ago, when
he was young.


Raul, Paul Lamar Jan 2020

Raul, Paul Lamar

Bryant Literary Review

On the twelfth day of his new job as a security guard outside of S–, one of M–’s finest men’s shops, Raul B– stumbled upon a unique answer to the question of store security, though he was never to be aware of his particular gift or its profound impact on crime in M–.