Reckon Review
@reckonreview.bsky.social
Dirt Road Driving, Jelly Jar Sipping, Dollar General Shopping, journal of Prose.
New Fiction for you today from Asa Merritt. Asa Merritt started writing fiction when the onset of single-sided deafness led him to retreat from the more social fields of playwriting, screenwriting, and journalism. Asa is queer and lives with his family in Mexico City.
New fiction for you today. Deo Lail is a queer & proud southern writer from rural south Louisiana who lives in WNC’s Great Smoky Mountains. Their work can be found in Western Carolina University’s undergraduate literary magazine The Nomad.
New @tracieadams.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social !!!
Tracie Adams@tracieadams.bsky.social · 4w agoBig thanks to @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing “The Hush” and shout out to my mentor/editor @mattkendrick.bsky.social who must’ve had me rewrite this story dozens of times. Also, the fiction editor, Drew, at Reckon is awesome! 🙏🏼🫶🏼🙌🏽 reckonreview.com/the-hush-fic...
"Down by the bank, muddy boot prints lead nowhere and everywhere. Not a blessed word said." My lord, I love this extraordinary story so much! By @tracieadams.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Tracie Adams@tracieadams.bsky.social · 4w agoBig thanks to @reckonreview.bsky.social for publishing “The Hush” and shout out to my mentor/editor @mattkendrick.bsky.social who must’ve had me rewrite this story dozens of times. Also, the fiction editor, Drew, at Reckon is awesome! 🙏🏼🫶🏼🙌🏽 reckonreview.com/the-hush-fic...
"Perhaps she had another life she had wanted to live. So, that is exactly what I decided to do for her." Read @katywrites.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social .
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 3w agoNew Wind & Root today from one of our favorites, @katywrites.bsky.social Katy Goforth is the author of Anchored and Traveling Alone. She was born and raised in South Carolina and lives with her spouse and two pups, Finn and Betty Anne. reckonreview.com
New Wind & Root today from one of our favorites, @katywrites.bsky.social Katy Goforth is the author of Anchored and Traveling Alone. She was born and raised in South Carolina and lives with her spouse and two pups, Finn and Betty Anne. reckonreview.com
WE ARE SO PROUD of these folks and their work. Check out our nominations at: reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
New fiction today from Tracie Adams who writes from her farm in rural Virginia. The author of two memoirs, Our Lives in Pieces & Not Finished Yet, her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, & longlisted for Wigleaf Top 50. @tracieadams.bsky.social
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.
Today, a wolf at the dollar store. Last week, a pair of raccoons leered at me around the edge of a counter in the corner coffee shop. I watched this one get drafted and the final product is powerful. And what an excellent home for it! Siobhan Ring in @reckonreview.bsky.social
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · last mo.New fiction for you today from Siobhan Ring. Siobhan Ring 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.
New fiction for you today from Siobhan Ring. Siobhan Ring 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.
So very happy that @reckonreview.bsky.social chose to honor my work -- thank you! Check out the link in their post to read "Resurrection Drive."
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe 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: reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
“Nana says she has forgotten how to live.” “One day, Nana says she’s forgotten how the world is supposed to end.” @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/slot-machine...
SLOT MACHINE GODS | Fiction by Sarp Sozdinler – Reckon Review
reckonreview.com
“... and she cha-cha’d around the kitchen and the children held on tight as she spun them around stamping a beat along to the music and the music sped up and she spun faster and faster and ...“ @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social reckonreview.com/coldest-day-...
COLDEST DAY OF THE YEAR | Fiction by Mario Aliberto III – Reckon Review
reckonreview.com
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 lives in Waynesville, North Carolina.
Really happy to have this story out in the world at last. It is about the end of the world or forgetting how to live. Big thanks to Drew Coles and the wonderful team over at Reckon Review (@reckonreview.bsky.social) for giving it a place. Hope you like it. 🔗👇
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew Fiction Today! Sarp Sozdinler is a writer based between Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His stories have been included to anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. He serves as the editor of The Bulb Region. @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
New Fiction Today! Sarp Sozdinler is a writer based between Philadelphia and Amsterdam. His stories have been included to anthologies such as the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best Microfiction. He serves as the editor of The Bulb Region. @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social
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: reckonreview.com/award-nomina...
New Wind & Root today from Special Guest Jessica Slee! 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.
“…as the stranger turned, the light caught his face, illuminating a golden mustache and fogged eyeglasses, cheeks streaked with dry, rusty blood, not a stranger at all but their father…” @marioaliberto3.bsky.social | @reckonreview.bsky.social 📷 : Xie Lipton reckonreview.com/coldest-day-...
Get a taste of the excellent @cwblackwell.bsky.social with the short piece "The Kings of Ghost City" in @reckonreview.bsky.social .
C.W. Blackwell@cwblackwell.bsky.social · 2mo agoThanks Gabino! My historical crime novel THE COLD DARK FOREVER releases next week! Part love letter to California’s Central Coast, part homage to 1950s Gold Medal paperbacks. Can’t wait to share it with everyone soon!
We have new fiction for you today! Arva Bhavnagarwala is a pediatrician and writer based in Mumbai, India. 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.
Finally got to this one by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social - a writer at the top of his game! Read more here: marioaliberto3.com/publications/
Publications
Published in Lost Balloon: July 15, 2026 Counting to Ten In Japanese READ HERE Published in The Masters Review: July 6, 2026 Searching for God in a Mosh Pit READ HERE Published in The Bulb Region, …
marioaliberto3.com
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's a bajillion degrees outside. Cool down with us and a new story from Mario Aliberto III, "The Coldest Day of the Year." reckonreview.com/coldest-day-... @marioaliberto3.bsky.social
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.
A thriller in a flash! Kids, snow, a shady stranger, and that sketchy car that keeps driving past the house. "Coldest Day of the Year" in @reckonreview.bsky.social
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's a bajillion degrees outside. Cool down with us and a new story from Mario Aliberto III, "The Coldest Day of the Year." reckonreview.com/coldest-day-... @marioaliberto3.bsky.social
"...as the wind picked up, and snow fell in powdery gusts, sending a shiver down Warren’s spine, and he lifted the garbage can lid,...." I really love this phenomenal story by @marioaliberto3.bsky.social in @reckonreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Reckon Review@reckonreview.bsky.social · 3mo agoIt's a bajillion degrees outside. Cool down with us and a new story from Mario Aliberto III, "The Coldest Day of the Year." reckonreview.com/coldest-day-... @marioaliberto3.bsky.social
