by Free State Review | Apr 23, 2023 | Bubbler
Review By Alyssa Greene, as featured in Lambda Literary In the title story of Phantom Advances, Mary Lynn Reed’s debut short story collection, the teenage narrator looks at her mother through the viewfinder of a manual camera as her mother drives. They’ve just...
by Free State Review | Mar 16, 2023 | Bubbler, FSR
In 2010, I went with my father to a memorial service at St. Annes, in Bridgehampton. I noticed how confidently he sang the hymns, knowing every cadence, every word. For him they were second nature. I was touched by the quaintness of this. Before, I had only seen him...
by Free State Review | Jun 24, 2021 | Bubbler
my new face, for one. But what a relief not to have to bethe pretty one any more,begging for love,and to have this ravaged mug,the man of experience, the worldlyno-shit look, and with it,even a pot belly.though I’ll admit that with a pot bellyit’s better...
by Free State Review | Feb 10, 2021 | Bubbler, FSR
when the job you worked your ass off for is givento an older white man with a soul patch, you askyour husband to fuck you with the lights on— and he obliges, because he loves you and also loves fucking you// he’s good at it, but even still, you have to try not to...
by Free State Review | Jan 18, 2021 | Bubbler
—after Hanif Abdurraqib The last night I drove him home, I took a wrong turn, crisscrossing Baltimore, wondering if he noticed how many times we’d passed the arboretum.His eyes were as bright as ever, and his chin was peppered with the wiry excuse of a...