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Desaliento

The winner of Boston Review’s 15th annual fiction contest.

  • Patricia Engel

The Last Time I Saw Junior

A short story. 

  • Dagoberto Gilb

Mugger and Mouse Get Married

A story story. 

  • Michael Agresta

A Baby Is a Baby Is a Baby

A short story.

  • Matthew Stuart

The Cynic

A short story. 

  • Charles Johnson

The Art of Dying

A short story.

  • K.J. Bishop

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Lucho

A short story.

  • Patricia Engel

Transitory Cities

Winner of the 14th Annual Boston Review Short Story Contest

  • Padma Viswanathan

Babarian’s Fantasies

A short story. 

  • Peter Mountford

Holyoke Mass., an Ethnography

A short story

  • Ivelisse Rodriguez

In Rut

A short story. 

  • Madeline Kotowicz

Siblings

A short story. 

  • Yvonne Woon

The Dance

A short story. 

  • Jennie Berner

Bad News

A short story. 

  • T.E. Holt

How to Escape from a Leper Colony

The winner of Boston Review's 13th Annual Short-Story Contest.

  • Tiphanie Yanique

Things That Went Wrong Thus Far

A short story.

  • Deb Olin Unferth

December Story

A short story. 

  • D.S. Sulaitis

Orphan

A short story. 

  • T.E. Holt

Summer of Nene

A short story. 

  • Ivelisse Rodriguez

Dreamoirs

A short story. 

  • Marian Marzynski

My Good Man

A short story. 

  • Eric Gansworth

Expecting

A short story. 

  • Emily Fridlund

American Fighter

A short story. 

  • Donald Pfarrer

The Red Clock

A short story. 

  • Maile Chapman
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