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Issue #18 ~ Winter 2025: “Best Of” Edition

Release Date: January 28, 2025
Featuring the best of our best from 2024

Poetry

The Hammock by Jim Peterson from Issue #15, Spring 2024
Beacons by Jamie L. Smith from Issue #16, Summer 2024 
Death of the Moth by Annalee Fairley
from Micro Monday, June 3, 2024
Mosaic by Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí from Issue #13, Autumn 2023
(Non)detrimental Reliance by Esther Ra from Issue #15, Spring 2024
Obit by Kait Quinn from Micro Monday, August 13, 2023
How to Hear God While Making Thanksgiving Dinner by Charlene Pierce from Micro Monday, November 20, 2023  
Those Who Can’t by Taylor Franson-Thiel from Micro Monday, April 8, 2024  
Little Sparrow, Baby Mole (The MoMo Twins) by  Carey Salerno from Issue #17, Autumn 2024 

Flash Creative Nonfiction

The Crush of Dusk by Michaela Evanow
from Issue #17, Autumn 2024
My Mother, the Story-Weaver by Kiana Govoni from Issue #17, Autumn 2024

Short Fiction

Funny by L. L. Babb from Issue #15, Spring 2024
Grasshopper Gut Punch by Jacob Orlando from Issue #15, Spring 2024
Things To Talk To Jim About by Jaime Gill from Issue #16, Summer 2024
Babygirl by Mychal Hope from Issue #17, Autumn 2024

Flash Fiction

Razia, Razia by Sara Siddiqui Chansarkar from Issue #15, Spring 2024 
Rainbow Mittens by Lea Pounds from Issue #15, Spring 2024 

Short Creative Nonfiction

Life Must Go On by Cynthia Landesberg from Issue #13, Autumn 2023
Origin Stories by Frankie Concepcion from Issue #16, Summer 2024

With Artwork By:

Gabrielle Miller, Kathleen Frank, Cynthia Yatchman, John Widdowson, Matthew Fertel, Devdatta Padekar, Jules Ostara, 紫月 李, Li Ziyue, Ann-Marie Brown, Barbara Sarvis, Michael Kunzinger, and Muhammad Ashraf

TGLR Spotlight…

Author Q&A with Sarah Schiff

We all know that fiction lies its way to the truth, so I want to promote truth in a world riddled with lies, and I want to add just a little bit of beauty to a world that, at times, can be heartbreakingly ugly…

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by Shyla Shehan

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…

The Echo of Footsteps by Ibrahim Abdulhakeem

Each step carried the weight of exhaustion, of dreams deferred and dignity swallowed in silence. Ayo would listen from his room, curled up with his homework, his hands clammy as he gripped his pen. Would today be different? Would the tension in the air dissipate, leaving room for laughter instead of raised voices?…

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The Latest News…

2025 Best Small Fiction Nominations

Today, and for the first time ever, we’re tossing our proverbial hat into the “Best Small Fiction” ring. Best Small Fiction is a contest facilitated and judged by editors at Alternating Current Press.

We’re not really tossing “our” hat, though… We’re tossing the hat of these five authors whose stories we published in 2024…

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by Shyla Shehan

More exclusive interviews with our contributors…

For all the news, interviews, book reviews, and Micro Monday features visit The Buzz

TGLR News

2024 Autumn Issue released on October 17th
2024 Honeybee Prize Results and Summer Issue
2024 Spring issue is HERE
Winter 2024 Best Of edition is available in print!
2024 New Year’s Revelations
TGLR is officially a nonprofit

More news and announcements here!

TGLR nominates for Pushcart, Best Small Fictions, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net

2025 Best Small Fictions
2025 Pushcart nominations
2025 Best of the Net nominations
2024 Pushcart nominations
2024 Best of the Net nominations
2023 Pushcart nominations
2023 Best of the Net nominations
2022 Pushcart nominations
2022 Best of the Net nominations

from the archives:

Funny by L. L. Babb

Funny | L. L. Babb Kiki spent six years in prison learning how to shut down. When she was released to the halfway house, her counselor tried to help her…

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Two Poems by Bob Hicok

Fire | Bob Hicok Is your solitude crushing?Do you feel like a milk cartonat the bottom of the oceanwith your face on it asking the abyss,Have you seen this child?The…

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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…

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For more good stuff from all our issues
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submissions:

We are currently open for all genres plus artwork! We nominate for Pushcart, Best of the Net, Best New Poets, Best Small Fictions and… YES we are a paying market! ($60 per piece published in the seasonal issue, $25 per piece published in Micro Monday, $50 for cover art)

The Good Life Review is seeking previously unpublished work by writers from all walks of life. Please read submission guidelines and when you’re ready, head over to Submittable to submit your work.

IMAGE: “Kunik” by Hiokit Lao

The Good Life Review is a 501C3 nonprofit literary journal made with ♥ from Omaha, Nebraska. We are committed to exploring the overlooked and are taking active steps toward a more diverse and equitable publishing platform.
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