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COVER IMAGE: “Focus” by K.A. Wesly
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Issue #14 ~ Winter 2024: “Best Of” Edition

Print Release Date: January 5, 2024
Online Release Date: January 23, 2024

Featuring the best poetry, prose, and art from the past year plus select favorites and prize winning pieces from the archives…
Poetry:

Uprooting a Tree by by Jamie Wendt (Issue #1), Pushcart Honorable Mention
Summer Elegy II by Todd Robinson (Issue #5), 2023 Best of the Net Finalist
What They Carried With Them by Ellen June Wright (Issue #6), Pushcart Prize Nominee
Felis Ellipses by Jack Phillips (Issue #6), Pushcart Prize Nominee
For Those of Us Forced to Flee by Jane Muschenetz (Issue #8), Honeybee Prize Winner and Pushcart Nominee
dear sister by Sequoia Maner (Issue #8), Honeybee Prize Runner Up and Pushcart Nominee
The Wax Poem by Andy Winter (Issue #9), Best of the Net Nominee
This is How the Body Knows by Soon Jones (Issue #10), Best of the Net Nominee
Nikah by Sarah Aziz (Issue #10), Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee
Migrant Wish by Moni Brar (Issue #10), Best of the Net Nominee
Mugshot by Sara Burge (Issue #11), Best of the Net Nominee
Why We Cry by Rock Star State Poet Matt Mason (Issue #12)
Amnesty Week by R.J. Lambert (Issue #12), Pushcart Prize Nominee
“For Kenny” by Kelsey Smoot (Issue #12), Honeybee Prize Winner
To Brother-Ghost on Halloween by Pell Williams (Issue #12), Pushcart Prize Nominee
Fire by Bob Hicok (Lucky #13), Pushcart Prize Nominee

Flash Fiction:

Extra Large for the Lord by Tomás Baiza (Issue #1), Pushcart Prize Nominee
What I Lost in September by Autumn Bettinger (Issue #3)
Love, Dad by Alex Sese (Issue #8), Best of the Net Nominee
Where by Rhea Bryce (Issue #9), Best of the Net Nominee
Birds of Prey by Tiffany Promise (Issue #12), Honeybee Prize Winner
Rock, Shore, Thunder by Maria S. Picone (Lucky #13)

FLASH NONFICTION:

Blinding by Ali Bryan (Issue #4)
Nanami in the Blue Dress by Jessica Mendoza (Issue #6) , Pushcart Prize Nominee
Mutation of a Body by Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter (Issue #9)
Selfishly, I Planted Flowers by Rachel Sussman (Issue #12), Honeybee Prize Winner

FICTION:

Go Get the Gun by Jim Peterson (Issue #2)
Who Takes the Bus in LA by Marc Eichen (Issue #10), Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee
Clam! by Jason Arias (Issue #13), Pushcart Prize Nominee

NONFICTION:

Backwards and Blind by Helyn Trickey Bradley (Issue #8), Best of the Net Nominee and Honeybee Editor’s Choice Award Winner
Iowa Blues, and Greens by Summer Hammond (Issue #10), Best of the Net Nominee
Nocturnal Lagophthalmos by Christi Krug (Issue #11)

Artwork:

COVER IMAGE: “Focus” by K.A. Wesly
“Within the Oak” by Kate (Junehyo) Choi, Cover ~ Issue #5, 2023 Best of the Net Finalist
“Scarred Beauty” by Gerburg Garmann, Cover ~ Issue #10, Best of the Net Nominee
“Braided Platte” by Kim Sosin, Cover ~ Issue #7,023 Best of the Net Nominee
“Inheritance” and “And Yet” by Ann-Marie Brown
“Among Sparks and Scions (Night)” by Aaron Lelito
“Fish Tail” by Leslie Brown
“Chartreuse Woods” and “Baby Breath” by Vian Borchert
“Ocean of Stillness” and “Where Two Infinites Meet” by Shrishti Tassin, Best of the Net Nominee
“Like Sand Through An Hourglass” by Yuchen Shi
Unnamed by Malia Nahinu, Issue #8 Cover
“East Side Gallery, Berlin” by Jeremiah Gilbert

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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TGLR News

2024 New Year’s Revelations
2023 Honeybee Prize Finalists and Winners
TGLR is officially a nonprofit

The Good Life Review nominates for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net

2023 Pushcart nominations
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:

“Guten Tag, Baby!” by Scott C. Sickles

“Guten Tag, Baby!” | Scott C. Sickles Cast of Characters  ELEANOR: 75-years-old, in early stages of dementia. Given to flights of nostalgia.   VIVIENNE: 42-years-old. ELEANOR’s daughter. Tired from the long…

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Limerence by Levi Cain

Limerence | Levi Cain   ok now i am beholding u / yes i am bewitched bythe stubby curl of yr ponytail the wide open arcof shoulders the single black…

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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.

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