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Cover Art: “Natural Hue” by Sarah Kohrs
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Issue #19 ~ Spring 2025

Release Date: April 9, 2025

Poetry

Enumeration by Katharine Jager
ephemera 31 by Chris Lisieski
Two Poems by Alex Dodt: Yesterday is and Somewhere Between Childhood and Your Vertical Abandoning You
Ode to the Wet Towel on the Floor by Alicia Elkort
if by Keira Deer
Don’t Ask Me About the Hymns by Ezra Fox
In Defense of Liquor by Pamilerin Jacob

Flash Creative Nonfiction

I Am a Body Lying in the Grass by Allison Hughes
I like when my ass hangs out of my shorts by Rose Marie Torres

Short Fiction

Tbilisi by Sara Maria Hasbun
Mall Goddess by Marilee Dahlman

Flash Fiction

The Next Empty Cup by Myna Chang
Flying Fish by Corinne Harrison
Taco Bell Customer Satisfaction Questionnaire by Susan L. Lin

Short Creative Nonfiction

You Come Now You Leave Now by Ramona Emerson
Space / Time by Siobhan Ring

A person with curly hair sitting at a table outdoors, smiling softly at the camera.
With Artwork and photography By:

Sarah Kohrs, Kim McNealy Sosin, Ellen June Wright, Sholanke Boluwatife Emmanuel, Ferris Jones, Erin Song, Pieter Janaldo, Mostafa Meraji, Albert Stoynov, Juan Burgos, Raymond Kotewicz, and Luke Chesser.

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 Spotlight…

Cid Galicia Reviews “Freeland” by Leigh Sugar

Navigating Leigh Sugar’s collection, FREELAND, is like being caught in an argument between Han Solo and Gnarles Barkley on how to rescue the Rebel Princess from the Galactic Empire’s prison, The Death Star. At least they weren’t caught in the 1900s, still naming prisons via historical indigenous geographic locations. Because we are, and Leigh is, and that is where we find ourselves, with her, in this collection….

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by Cid Galicia

The Latest News…

Introducing Issue #21 ~ Autumn 2025

Welcome, friends, to fall and the latest edition of TGLR. Yes, today is the day… The big reveal of Issue #21!! It’s always a delight to introduce the authors and artists we meet through the publication process, but it’s especially wonderful when people are as kind as this bunch. We’re honored to promote them and this bountiful collection of amazing work!…

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by Shyla Shehan

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 of the Net, Best New Poets, and Best Small Fictions

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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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 uncurated 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: “Forever Again” by Gabrielle Miller

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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