HeyJaredShort and Novel
Reviews of current short stories, flash fiction, poetry, novels, short story collections, and anything else written by a real, live person.
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Personal Review: "Jesus’ Son" by Denis Johnson (opens the original)
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Up until a couple of months ago, I hadn’t ever heard of Denis Johnson. (And yes, the rock I live under is very comfortable.) I found out about him from a review of Ted Geltner’s biography of Johnson, Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures. From that article, I was
A Life Lived Unwell in "Two days after I died" (opens the original)
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(The flash fiction story “Two days after I died” by Justine Sweeney was published on March 19th, 2026 at Milk Candy Review.)“Two days after I died” by Justine Sweeney is the type of flash piece that makes me love flash writers as they can be inventive and playful with this form, while at the same time making me ask, in a mischievo
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