Our nominees: Travis Flatt, Emily Rinkema, Laura O'Meara, Elizabeth Rosen, Hugh Behm-Steinberg, and Ashton Russell.

The Good Life Review presents "Catharsis by Georgia Maull-Keyser, in Issue #24 ~ Summer 2026. Photo by Nguyen Phuc Hau

First, make coffee. The power may be out, the electric grinder useless, but you can crush the beans with your wife’s mortar and pestle. She would have liked that, your ability to stay focused, to p…

“ Step into other shoes to walk new paths.”

The thing about portals is this: you don’t know what’s on the other side.

Prose, chapbook, 28 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Such Late Night Radio is a collection of flash fiction stories that delve into the odd. The weirdness that drifts somewhere beyond your bedtime. Tha...

by Elissa Field...I eye one under glass in diesel green, iridescent like rainbows on petrol. Laser embossed handgrips in swirls of vining flowers. I’d fired yours at the range. First time I heard a sh...

Muriel’s Cyclone Kathy Fish   It begins with a snowman who catches Muriel’s eye. It begins with Muriel standing at the drawing room window of her tiny home. The winter cyclones, once rare, are now com...

*****Henry Eric Jameson Rowley: 1955—2024. *****Loved innuendo, so may have died age 69 intentionally. (Pause for laughter). *****Famous actor, famously generous friend, infamously extravagant party h...

​The Constructivist   Drifting through the gallery of European avante-guard statues, Wassily thought how, in another life, he might have been an artist instead of a surgeon. It was a matter of...

Chad and I started live-streaming our fights after we found out insurance only covered twenty percent of our daughter’s orthodontic bill. Live-streaming was his idea, said he read about a site where p...

We weren’t surprised when we got the call from the guidance counselor at Avery’s middle school. We’d anticipated it ever since Avery began speaking in Carl Sagan quotes. It didn’t take a fortune telle...

Clear your mind. Light the tallow. As your infant mewls from his nest of rags, shrink from his hunger; how the skin has tightened to the skull, its frame as slight as a sparrow’s. Continue reading&…