New Issue, New Reading Period

August is a big month for TLR. Our latest issue  (Issue 31) just hit the website. The button below takes you to the latest issue; click it to check out some amazing cover art and twenty-eight new selections.

Plus, submissions opened August 15. Now through October we’ll be considering submissions in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, poetry translations, and graphic narratives. Submission guidelines are a click away, via the menu in the upper right corner or further down on this page.

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  • On a good day, you can see The Mountain. Capital “T” & “M.” It’s bound to blow. But not in this lifetime.

    “A Haibun for White Center, Washington” by Vincent Antonio Rendoni Read
  • “Thank you very much for your insightful comments and suggestions. They are really helpful in my learning journey as a writer.”

    From a writer who received a full critique Try a full critique!
  • In the living room there is a ghost with old bones and his mother’s face and hair like a white wolf. He wears a robe of anger, set upon his shoulders by his father, and it hangs like curtains in front of his shuffling feet.

    “Even Then” by Heather Butcher Read

“Empty Nest”

Congratulations to Katie Humphries, whose flash fiction “Empty Nest” will appear in Best Microfictions:

He moved like a rabid dog, swaying and lurching around the pathway, practically foaming at the mouth. It was the bare feet that got me. The boy stopped twice to kick at the sidewalk, oblivious to his vulnerable feet. …

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