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Fiction

The Babies

When the townsfolk gathered to dip that year’s births in the creek, all saw what the midwife had already observed: all the babies were the same baby.

JoAnna Wool

Reading Lists

Award-Winning Short Stories

Man Booker nominees and more got their start at Boston Review.

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Fiction

Álvaro

2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest winner selected by Min Jin Lee.

Gina Balibrera

Fiction

Announcing the 2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner

Announcing the winner of the 2017 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest, Gina Balibrera.

Boston Review

Fiction

Trumpeteers

2016 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest Winner selected by Jennifer Egan.

Mikayla Ávila Vilá

Fiction

A Modern Marriage

A debut short story by an emerging Nigerian writer. Winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Grace Oluseyi

Fiction

Severance

Winner of the 2014 Aura Estrada Short Story Contest.

Leslee Becker

Fiction

Seascape

My girlfriend has a third eye. It’s in the middle of her forehead. It was hidden underneath her bangs.

Holly Pekowsky

Fiction

Cop and Robber

It was the canal. He’d broken through, broken it, and let it in. To his mother’s backyard. Run, Tommy! 

E.H. Dalton

Fiction

Three Shorts

Its brilliant mirror-surface buildings seem to belie it. Streets vibrant with history. But the city doesn’t exist.

Edmundo Paz Soldán, Kirk Nesset

Fiction

Deer

I forgot for a while that happiness is fragile, that life is made of glass. Maybe I chose to forget those things or needed a rest from knowing them. Once I was reminded, I never forgot again.

James Pouilliard

Fiction

There Are Two Pools You May Drink From

The winner of the 2013 Aura Estrada Short Contest, selected by Nathan Englander.

Kerry-Lee Powell

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