San Antonio Review
@sanantoreview
International literary, arts and ideas journal. Read at sanantonioreview.org
"Situationships, the apocalypse and the necessity for indecisiveness in doomed times" by Rebecca Baby https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/21/situationships-the-apocalypse-and-the-necessity-for-indecisiveness-in-doomed-times/ #prose #climatewriting #literaryjournal #SanAntonioReview
"The Questionnaire Asks: Over the Last 2 Weeks, How Often Have You Been Bothered By Thoughts That You Would Be Better Off Dead?" https://sanantonioreview.org/ #poetry #mentalhealth #literaryjournal #SanAntonioReview
"Learning to Live With It" by Alan Altimont https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/14/learning-to-live-with-it/ #Poetry #Elegy #Retirement #SanAntonioReview
"Bossa Nova" by Domonique Antoinette Francois — a seductive poem with a killer twist. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/13/bossa-nova/ #Poetry #NoirPoetry #LiteraryTwist #SanAntonioReview
"Homecomings" by Hege A. Jakobsen Lepri — a tender, layered story of family, food, and finding connection. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/12/homecomings/ #Fiction #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory #SanAntonioReview
"The Hardest Words to Say" by Timothy Morris — a devastating, tender essay on love and loss. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/11/the-hardest-words-to-say/ #CreativeNonfiction #LiteraryJournal #Grief #SanAntonioReview
"Midnight Decompression" by Jan Hanson — a raw, breathless prose piece about burnout and late-night unraveling. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/10/midnight-decompression/ #prose #burnout #creativewriting #SanAntonioReview
"Sad Dads of the Revolution" by K Russell Breakstone — a stunning new story. https://sanantonioreview.org/?p=19383 #Fiction #LiteraryFiction #ShortStory #SanAntonioReview
"Nanjing Pollution Duck" by Mark Crimmins — a wild literary adventure through smog and bookshops. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/08/nanjing-pollution-duck/ #FlashFiction #LiteraryHumor #China #SanAntonioReview
"Adirondack Chairs of the Suburbs" by Alan Altimont https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/07/adirondack-chairs-of-the-suburbs/ #Poetry #SuburbanLife #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview
"Glory be" by Patrick T. Reardon — a litany for Chicago's streets, bones, and glory. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/03/glory-be/ #Poetry #ChicagoPoetry #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview
"Skipping Stones" by Nolan Dannels — a quiet poem of longing and return. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/08/01/skipping-stones/ #Poetry #Love #Loneliness #SanAntonioReview
"White Noise" by Sandra Marchetti — birch trees carrying the sea in their leaves. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/31/white-noise/ #Poetry #NaturePoetry #BirchTrees #SanAntonioReview
"Elko, Nevada" by Fredric Hildebrand — a stranger's unsolicited wisdom at the gas pump. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/30/elko-nevada/ #Poetry #AmericanWest #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview
"Marathoner" by Kerry Franich — memory, light, and longing in every stride. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/29/marathoner/ #Poetry #FlashFiction #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview
"Ox" by Patrick T. Reardon — a mythic, muscular poem. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/28/ox/ #Poetry #MythicPoetry #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview
"So Much Depends" by Demi Richardson — wild, luminous, fierce. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/27/so-much-depends/ #Poetry #ProsePoem #NatureWriting #SanAntonioReview
"butter" by Keagan Cross — a tiny grace that holds a whole life. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/26/butter/ #poetry #grace #childhood #SanAntonioReview
"Anakeesta" by Timothy Morris — a tender meditation on fatherhood, grief, and fleeting freedom. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/25/anakeesta/ #CreativeNonfiction #Grief #LiteraryJournal #SanAntonioReview
Every poet and every AI developer should heed this mistranslation of Intent into Effect. David Mathews' new visual poem runs from Deming's Zero Defects to a taxonomy of who has a Soul, a Self, both or neither. "Zero Defects," now at sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/24/z... #Poetry #Art #VisualPoetry
"Genesis 3:4" by Rachel More — a stunning story of faith, snakes, and sacred performance. https://sanantonioreview.org/2026/07/24/genesis-34/ #Fiction #Appalachia #SnakeHandling #SanAntonioReview
A dying lemon tree's last bumper crop. An oak's acorn flood that keeps the squirrels in check. David Mathews' new visual poem asks whether our decades follow the same pattern — and who benefits. "Symbiotic Semiotics," now at sanantonioreview.org
A devastating novella set in occupied Germany, 1945: a rocket scientist caught between captors, hostile neighbors, and the weight of what he won't confess. Gripping historical fiction. sanantonioreview.org/2026/02/15/o... #HistoricalFiction #WWII #PostwarGermany #SanAntonioReview
A luminous essay traces stories passed down through generations of women — from Da Vinci's Saint Anne to a grandmother's kitchen in Queens. "Women inherit the words." sanantonioreview.org/2026/05/22/t... #FamilyStories #CreativeNonfiction #Grandmothers #SanAntonioReview
John Bonanni's "Gown Men and the Siren" is a stunning fiction piece weaving Jim Crow Louisiana, Vodou, and the real story of Lloyd Price into a haunting Southern narrative you won't forget. sanantonioreview.org/2019/07/03/g... #SouthernFiction #LloydPrice #NewOrleans #ShortStory #Fiction
“Daisy jumped over the moon.” — a father’s story becomes a lifeline against the unbearable. Chuck Schading’s piece is a blend of grief, love, and imagination. Read: sanantonioreview.org/and-the-cow-... #ShortFiction #LitMag #Grief #Storytelling #Love
“We got each other.” — Alynne’s world narrows to survival, until Bandit expands it again. Peyton Ellas’s “Bandit” traces dignity, danger, and loyalty in the spaces where systems fail. Read: sanantonioreview.org/bandit-peyto... #ShortFiction #LitMag #Dogs #Survival #ShortStory
“‘What you really like… is being unsupervised.’” A man loops his old neighborhood — circling memory, work, and a father slipping away. “Speaking of Ice Cream” lingers where humor meets heartbreak. sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/17/s... #fiction #amreading #literature #shortstory
“‘We don’t talk about things we don’t like.’” A child’s memory becomes a reckoning with inheritance — silence, expectation, and the quiet art of rebellion. Read “The Inheritance.” sanantonioreview.org/2026/04/16/t... #memoir #writing #literature #womenwriters #shortstory #fiction