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L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, literar…

There is a chocolate shop in Paris. It is on an elegant street, with trees, in a building cut in blocks of cream Lutetian limestone. Three stories high — nearly all the buildings are on that street…

I gamble on a new day in the cold diaphanous dawn while my namesake, many crooked borders away, waits on consignment for proper prayers on his behalf. I think there are none, sacred or otherwise, t…

You girls know a place with a good crowd. Have a big steak. Couple martinis. Cigarette smoke like in the real world. Don’t you think. Ditch all this beige. Grab a lipstick, you two’ll come wi…

First the snapping of the metal bits that hold the screw cap to the collar. Slowed down, deeper by it, amped up, it might be pealing of bells; joy down street and sidewalk. Slowed a bit more, their…

The eco-terrorist is zipping down the highway in a 1996 Ford Aerostar. He keeps laying on the brake, even though there’s hardly any traffic going East in the mid-afternoon. You’d think that’s out o…

It is possible to walk from the south-east tip of Guernsey at Fermain Bay to the lumpy promontories at Vazon and Cobo in the north-west – a distance of seven or eight miles – without coming across …

She seems to correspond intimately with the surrounding landscape: the snatches of wool on barbed wire; the hoofprints full of water; the crooked, hillside hawthorns—all seem somehow to acknowledge…

Cover photo by  Stephanie Klepacki on Unsplash Contents Deja Vu All Over Again, Neil Weiner When I Write “I”: The Disabled Body and the Myth of Narcissus, Nate Connolly Bluebird…

I’m not sure whose bright idea it was to stick the old water tower next to the graveyard–how many boil water notices had there been on account of somebody’s mawmaw leeching her corpse juices into t…

I brought my girlfriend on a date to Art Hoe theatre to see an indie flick directed by and starring a rich girl I went to high school with. She, the rich girl, was known for her straight-A’s,…

Because she respected the man so much, she wants to like his book. She really wants to. She recognizes his talent but can’t abide his formal choices.

It was the leg cramps and the thirst that confirmed my pregnancy before my pregnancy was confirmed.

The manuscript also aims to deconstruct the language of visibility and invisibility – both in the literal sense and in the societal context. What happens when people around you (including workplace…

They are prone to many things. They are prone to squabbling, which for some is another way of conversing. They are prone to that and a few others. When the two speak, it is like listening to the fo…

There’s an irresistible deadpan underpinning Irish writer Maggie Armstrong’s debut novel Old Romantics—if Armstrong’s title choice elicits any preliminary notions of sentimentality, just give her f…

Cover photo by  Stephanie Klepacki on Unsplash Contents Deja Vu All Over Again, Neil Weiner When I Write “I”: The Disabled Body and the Myth of Narcissus, Nate Connolly Bluebird…

Kelly Kelly escaped the sweltering humid heat of 1958 New York City by ducking into the Horn & Hardart Automat on Broadway between 46 and 47th street. She was here to meet her blind date for th…

The disease hit without warning. I was healthy, young, safe. Then, I wasn’t anymore. It began in math class: my body shook so hard I fell out of the chair and knocked over the desk. At times, I was…

L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Diane Josefowicz I’m interested in writing that takes risks, and I’m especially interested in risky choices of style, voice, register, and point…

L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, drama, …

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L’Esprit Literary Review publishes work written in the fearless, risk-adept, and revolutionary spirit of High Modernism. We accept short fiction, creative non-fiction, novel extracts, drama, …

Short story published in ARTWIFE literary and arts magazine

Short story published in ARTWIFE literary and arts magazine

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L’Esprit Literary Review Judged by Diane Josefowicz I’m interested in writing that takes risks, and I’m especially interested in risky choices of style, voice, register, and point…

Prose writer, creative writing instructor, and visual artist Rebecca Fishow’s latest book of short fiction, How to Love a Black Hole, is a rapid, deft, and illusive collection. Moving between narratio...