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…
Interview with Kelsey Smoot
I certainly wanted the concept of soulmate to function in this collection as a tool, a lens through which we can see ourselves, our loved ones, our communities, and also our political orientations more clearly, and determine how to embody a practice of love that is less about predestination and romantic alignment and much more about commitment, agency, and devotion to others…
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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…
You Ask Your Husband if He’d Do it All Over Again by Victoria Melekian
You spend the day making lists—reasons to stay, reasons to go. You try to keep them even, but staying is losing and that’s when you know. The man’s been leaving for months and you—too slow to see. You’ve got the dog, an orange cat in a sunny windowsill, and three miscarriages…
Keep readingThe 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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More exclusive interviews with our contributors…
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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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Rock, Shore, Thunder by Maria S. Picone
Rock, Shore, Thunder | Maria S. Picone The nails chime as she hammers the boards of Rock Point Lighthouse. The record temperatures curve up and up, clingy fog along her…
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Rainbow Mittens by Lea Pounds
Rainbow Mittens | Lea Pounds One chilly fall morning long ago, Mama woke me before sunrise. She told me I was going to visit Gran. She and Papa would come…
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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