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April 13, 2020
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Girl Clothes | by M. L. Krishnan

All of them had personalities that announced themselves when they entered a room, that took up an enormous quantity of space, that made everyone want to straighten their unwilling spines. This would prove to be a problem.

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The Pleasure Garden | Adam McOmber

My sister has been to Vauxhall. Of course she has. She’s been everywhere in London. When she was drunk one night, she told me what men do together on the dark and

A Gift from Mr. Blorenge | by James Butler-Gruett

An hour before our dinner with my principal, Mr. Blorenge, I was

The Moaning Banjo Frog by Jake Tuck

Darryl Vickers isn’t hearing the frog sounds he’s listening for. He and

The Wrong Things | Eric Scot Tryon

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022
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The skin on my thumb is worn and beginning to blister. It has been pressed hard against the metal edge of the hose since noon, desperate to make water come out faster,

The Pleasure Garden | Adam McOmber

June 1, 2020
short story/sonora online

My sister has been to Vauxhall. Of course she has. She’s been everywhere in London. When she was drunk one night, she told me what men do together on the dark and

Oleander | Mary Camarillo

May 18, 2020
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Eddie brushes his teeth with the bathroom door open, watching the television in the living room. “Sixth inning,” Vince Scully says. “Full count, nobody out.”

A Gift from Mr. Blorenge | by James Butler-Gruett

April 27, 2020
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An hour before our dinner with my principal, Mr. Blorenge, I was in a froth, shouting from the bathroom at Donatella. I’d been recommended, against my will, for a promotion.

Girl Clothes | by M. L. Krishnan

April 13, 2020
News/short story/sonora online

All of them had personalities that announced themselves when they entered a room, that took up an enormous quantity of space, that made everyone want to straighten their unwilling spines. This would

The Moaning Banjo Frog by Jake Tuck

September 10, 2018
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Darryl Vickers isn’t hearing the frog sounds he’s listening for. He and Jansen are waist deep in a reeking swamp, recording ribbits. Frustrated, Vickers tromps around and chases the frogs. He manages

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Sonora Review is among the oldest student-run literary journals in the country, and has been devoted since its founding in 1980 to offering a venue for exciting new and emerging authors, as well as prominent southwestern writers and artists.

In previous issues we have featured work by Aimee Bender, Joy Harjo, and Maggie Nelson, and our editors have included Antonya Nelson, Richard Russo, and David Foster Wallace. Work originally printed in Sonora Review has appeared in Best of the West and Best American Poetry, and has won O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes.
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