Nothing Gold Can Stay
Our sixth-grade classroom smelled of stale peanut butter and scrapped fruit wafting from the lunch pails inside our desks—those we’d crouched under in drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Word problems and diagrammed sentences sprawled across the blackboards flanking the front and side of the room, and sunlight spilled through the casement windows running along the outside wall—the sun in Philadelphia, the same one we…
Writers Without Tires
As steam escaped from the right side of the car, we quickly pulled onto the shoulder of a highway off-ramp. Realizing that the turbulence was not a bumpy road, but that something somewhat serious had occurred, we filed out of the car to assess the situation and were confronted by a shredded front tire. Our dark brown Camry, as we would later describe it to…
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Spring 2014 Call for Submissions
Dear writers, artists, and fans of literature, Portland Review is opening its doors to new submissions for the Spring 2014 issue. Our reading period for inclusion in this issue is from March 1st to April 1st. The spring issue focuses primarily on short fiction, but a small selection of other genres (poetry, nonfiction, and art) will be included as well. Accepted authors and artists receive…