For February, 2016, Portland Review is accepting fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art submissions for our Spring 2016 issue. In addition to our regular submission categories, Portland Review is pleased to present the Spring 2016 Short Fiction Contest.
Winter 2016 Call for Submissions
Portland Review is now accepting submissions for the month of November. We seek well-crafted fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and artwork for publication in our upcoming Winter 2016 issue. All submissions will also be considered for web publication, contributing[…]
Famous Last Words by Jim Davis
It’s now, she says. Now, & never again – so we beat on, boats against the current & swooned slowly, heard the snow falling faintly through the universe. I had been there before, lying on my back, thumbing my nose at You Know Who, which is why I don’t tell anyone anything. If I do, I start missing everybody. Poo-tee-weet said the bird under firebombs & the old man was dreaming about lions. Quién es? said Billy the Kid. Don’t let me drop. There, on the ground under the almond tree, pleasure of simple joys & the happy summer days, borne back ceaselessly into gray – there’s no good way to say goodbye.
The Good Neighbor by Tim Bass
The day after Leon and Doris moved in, the next door neighbor serviced their water heater. “Welcome to the neighborhood,” Bill said. “Now, hand me that screwdriver and show me where the circuit breaker is.” Soon, Bill held up a corroded metal rod. “Here’s your problem,” he said. Leon had no idea what he was looking at. “Bad?” he asked. “To the bone,” Bill said….
Awkward Love Poem by Margaret Young
It’s not like you can compress the files of love to fit them in, there are eight thousand sixty twelve of them in orange steel drawers, not labeled well: you can’t, say, squeeze in rows of tiny corn urging up along North Professor, bottles of daylight leaking in the patient ditch while robins tug the slippery threads that hold it all together, this world of…