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New fiction for you today!

Mahsa Ghafari is an Iranian writer based in London. Her work won the Garnet International Short Story Award and has been shortlisted in other Persian-language literary competitions. She recently completed the Granta Intermediate Short Story Course and writes fiction in both Persian and English. by @reckonreview

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New fiction for you today from Siobhan Ring.

Siobhan Ring was raised in a small town in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains. Her creative non-fiction has been published in The Write Launch, Lunch Ticket, and The Good Life Review. Her essay "Words" was a finalist for the Diana Woods Memorial Award. Siobhan lives and writes from the Pacific Northwest where she lives with her wife and son. When she isn't writing, she is organizing for a world where all of us are safe and free. by @reckonreview

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New fiction today from Walker Minot.

Walker Minot is a remote office drone by day and a father, husband, cat dad, writer, and co-fiction editor of @loblolly_press by morning, noon, and night. He holds a BA in worldly topics from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MFA in Creative Writing from St. Joseph’s University in Brooklyn, NY where he studied with Lee Clay Johnson, Cleyvis Natera, Andrew Martin, and Steven Hobbs. He lives in Waynesville, North Carolina. by @reckonreview

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New fiction today!

Sarp Sozdinler is a writer based between Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His work has found places in Electric Literature, Kenyon Review, Wigleaf, HAD, Hobart, X-R-A-Y, Burial, Flash Frog, Pithead Chapel, Fractured Lit, Maudlin House, and elsewhere. His stories have been included to anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction, and selected as finalists for the Los Angeles Review Short Fiction Prize and the Passages North Waasnode Short Fiction Prize. He serves as the editor of The Bulb Region. by @reckonreview

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We are so, so proud of these folks, and so honored that they trusted us with their work. Our nominations for Best of the Net, read them here: https://reckonreview.com/award-nominations/ by @reckonreview

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New Wind & Root today from Special Guest Jessica Slee!! Come See!

Jessica Slee studied English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a Claymore Award Winner, and in 2022 she was longlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger and the First Pages Prize. She was recognized in the Honor Roll of The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024 and her work appears in Cold Caller Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Punk Noir, Shotgun Honey, and others. For more, visit sleesquared.com. by @reckonreview

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We have new fiction for you today!

Arva Bhavnagarwala is a pediatrician and writer based in Mumbai, India. When not seeing patients or writing, she usually plays the role of a referee to ensure her two boys don’t kill each other. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines like Woman’s Era, Active Muse, and The Hooghly Review. A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE is her debut novel, published by Shaherazad Shelves. One can find her curated (sometimes) but mostly random pics on Instagram at arva.writes. by @reckonreview

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New Wind & Root for you today from columnist Susan Schirl Smith. Come see.

Susan Schirl Smith is a writer, photographer and holistic nurse living on the Seacoast of New Hampshire. Her essays have been published in WBUR’s Cognoscenti, Pangyrus, Silver Birch Press, Kind Over Matter, and the Porter House Review, among others. Her photography has been featured in Barren Magazine and L’Ephemere Review, along with local newspapers.

She has always been fascinated by the infinite possibilities of the world, and has owned a holistic wellness center, worked as a creative coach, designed websites, taught meditation and self-development classes, along with working in nursing in hospital and community settings. Her memoir in revisions is Desperado, a story of grief and hope, and the connection with loved ones that lasts forever. by @reckonreview

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It's a bajillion degrees outside. Cool down with us and a new story from Mario Aliberto III, "The Coldest Day of the Year."

Mario Aliberto III is the author of All the Dead We Have Yet to Bury (Chestnut Review, 2025), and his short fiction has appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly, Fractured Lit, The Pinch, and other fine journals. He lives in Tampa Bay with his wife and daughters, and yet the dog still runs the house. Find him online at marioaliberto3.com by @reckonreview

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Ed is one of our very favourites, so we were thrilled when he agreed to write a Wind&Root column for us. Come over and read "My Review" by E.A. Aymar.

Booklist wrote, of multiple Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s most recent thriller, When She Left, “This would appeal to fans of Elmore Leonard…with high-stakes violence tempered by humor and disarmingly sympathetic antiheroes.” In 2025, When She Left was chosen by PEN/Faulkner as one of three books for their prestigious DC Reads program. His previous thriller, No Home for Killers, received praise from the New York Times, Kirkus, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and was an instant Amazon Bestseller. A former contributor to the Washington Post, Aymar served on the national board of the International Thriller Writers and an active member of Crime Writers of Color and Sisters in Crime. He was born in Panama and now lives and writes in the DC/MD/VA triangle. by @reckonreview

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