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miCRo: “No Babies Died in the Making of This” by Jenny Bitner

Cincinnati Review | December 13, 2023 | miCRo

With candid facts and personal recollections, Jenny Bitner interrogates why flash fiction includes the deaths of children.

SarahFawn Montgomery reads from “Playing House,” her essay about doll-play and training for motherhood, from issue 20.2.

In “Loss for Words” Asma Al-Masyabi explores the links between trauma and the loss of language, connection, community, and self.

We are delighted to announce our 2023 literary award nominees.

Tierney Oberhammer reflects on two images that inspired the story “Sunshine Skyway,” published in issue 20.2.

Cincinnati Review | November 29, 2023 | miCRo

“Father would guard the door, saying
Don’t go in there, your mother is busy
She will be out soon”

Cincinnati Review | November 22, 2023 | miCRo

In this holiday tale we ride along with the inhabitants of a toy railroad through scraps of the narrator’s own family history.

Cincinnati Review | November 15, 2023 | miCRo

Two poems by an exiled Iraqi poet that blend the everyday with the horrors of war.

Ginger Ko complicates what it can mean to say “Me too” in an essay about familial abuse.

Winshen Liu’s poem “Lunch Break” interrogates hunger and sustenance.