Bliss Montage, a Review

by Bleah B. Patterson

Ling Ma understands that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting the result to change.

Ottessa Moshfegh’s Lapvona Is Absolutely Not Set in a Post-Trump Era, and That’s the Point

by Bleah B. Patterson

Lapvona sets us right in the heart of a medieval town that absolutely could have existed, tucked away in a valley with an almost comically evil lord on a hill just above who is influenced by a transparently fraudulent clergy member with predictably selfish intentions.

Sequoia Nagamatsu Inteview

by Bleah B. Patterson and Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu will be visiting SHSU on March 2, 2023. Ahead of his visit, TR staff interviewer Bleah Patterson interviewed Sequoia about his latest book, his writing themes, thoughts on genre distinctions, and forthcoming work.

My Year of Ovulating

by Sarah McEachern

1. Last year was the first in three that I was fertile....

Chlorine Is a Wolf

by Emily Shepherd

Not quite fourteen billion years after the Big Bang, a mass of elements congealed...

All from an Egg

by Sarah K. Lenz

I’d been living in Bowling Green, Ohio, three weeks when the dreams started...

Saint Savior

by Erik Anderson

My neighbor thought I was hilarious....

Permission

by M.R. “Chibbi” Orduña

When you wake up from your high to find your family...

Votive

by Emma Aylor

The mirror itself was scarcely larger than an eye...

Sitting with Figs

by Nazifa Islam

Do You Have Less Energy Than Usual

by Cynthia Marie Hoffman

In the graveyard, one white stone charges toward the sky...

Three Poems

by Anne-Marie Thompson

Yesterday we said, Let’s meet...