By Curt Saltzman
“At times, I felt I was living with a stranger to see him huddled with his cronies, cocktail in hand, naked to the waist, a carnation lei hanging from his neck like a fallen halo, beneath the softly swaying lanterns, or choosing albums from the personal collection he rarely touched otherwise.”
Your Impossible Voice is proud to nominate these five works for Best Small Fictions of 2021.
Issue 17 features work by Laurie Stone, John Better Armella (translated by George Bert Henson), Elisabeth Sheffield, M.C. Zendejas, Stephanie Dickinson, Miriam Karpilov (translated by Jessica Kirzane), Nicole Mestre, Ihsan Abdel Quddous (translated by Nabeel M. Yaseen), Michael Agugom, Jason Hamilton, Curt Saltzman, Jillian McManemin, Bob Elmendorf, Geraldine Connolly, Diego Valeri (translated by Laura Valeri), Alex Rieser, Ulrike Almut Sandig (translated by Jari Niesner), Lily Hoang, and Zach Wyner. Cover art by Jonathan Hammer
By Curt Saltzman
The three boys leaned against the chain-link fence above the dry wash. There was Johnny and Tom and another boy who’d wanted to tag along. The day was hot and they felt the heat like a weight pushing down on them.