
Lucky #13 ~ Autumn 2023
Released October 17th, 2023
Featuring:
Two Poems by Bob Hicok: Fire and Green Thumb
& Amazing by Nebraska State Poet Matt Mason
More in Poetry:
La Niña by Gathondu Mwangi
Limerence by Levi Cain
Mosaic by Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí
Flash Fiction:
Rock, Shore, Thunder by Maria S. Picone
Moon by Mrityunjay Mohan
FLASH NONFICTION:
Grandfathered by Haley Larson
FICTION:
Clam! by Jason Arias
Nonfiction:
Radio by Chelsea Yates
Life Must Go On by Cynthia Landesberg


Micro Monday
Features brief fiction, cnf, and poetry. It’s like a shot of literary adrenaline to jump start your week.
This week’s Feature…
How to Hear God While Making Thanksgiving Dinner by Charlene Pierce
The turkey is raw and waiting to be stuffed. The pies are done. The oven isn’t beeping yet, or maybe it is, but you can’t hear it, and you smell the browning crust taking over the pumpkin’s spices. You used to make them by hand, back when you had time or when you thought you had…
Keep readingTGLR Spotlight…
Author Q&A with Cynthia Landesberg
Born in Busan, South Korea, and adopted by Jewish parents, Cynthia Landesberg grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where she still resides. She is a mother, lawyer, and writer. You can find her writing in The Washington Post, Witness, and on her website, http://www.adoptionsquared.com.
Her nonfiction, Life Must Go On, is featured in Issue #13. Read on to learn what she shared with us about the piece, writing, and life as both an…
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The Good Life Review nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net
2023 Best of the Net nominations
2022 Pushcart nominations
2022 Best of the Net nominations
2021 Pushcart nominations
2021 Best of the Net nominations
from the archives:
Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson
Summer Elegy II | Todd Robinson Nebraska’s bare branchespaw at skies full of pointless blue, mercurial daymoon.Powerless like me or my disabled wifewobbling our broken palace in cashmere and bracken. She…
read moreBackwards and Blind by Helyn Trickey Bradley
Backwards and Blind | Helyn Trickey Bradley Grief has made me a morning person. It shakes me awake at three a.m and whispers with a hoarse voice into my ear. …
read moredear sister by Sequoia Maner
dear sister | Sequoia Maner i’d like to think we never experienced a world where foster care fostered absence. we went to the roller rink for birthdays. later we…
read moreStreet People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis by Sally Quon
Street People – Portraits of the Opioid Crisis | Sally Quon “Marianna” Marianna is on the street tonight. She has a bed, but there are times when her psychosis is…
read moreWhat They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright
What They Carried With Them | Ellen June Wright They carried everything one can bring when one can bring nothing. They carried everything they knew: languages and dialects, songs mothers taught…
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