Author: Amy DeBellis
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The Shortlist: March 7, 2025
Eight (!) fiction stories from Kelly Robson, Amy DeBellis, Katherine Plumhoff, Mark Ifanson, Chris Scott, Nathan Leslie, and Kevin Light-Roth
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Marrow by Amy DeBellis
DeBellis is so good at dropping one sentence that builds an entire story around it. There’s a reason she’s a favourite around these parts. In this case it’s this line: Although it is true that he has not hit her since he learned she was pregnant with his child.
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The Shortlist: January 24, 2025
Five short stories from Emily Hampson, Emily Rinkema, Amy DeBellis, Amorak Huey and Andrea Cavedo.
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Mercy by Amy DeBellis
This story from blog fave DeBellis was nominated for a Pushcart Prize – it’s about how we understand our loved ones and the world around us differently as we age. It’s got a surprise at the end, and Amy’s unique voice carries the story in a way that doesn’t feel like fiction at all.
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The Prank by Amy DeBellis
A group of kids set up to prank a peer, but things go sideways. The reveal in this story made my jaw drop.
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Souvenirs
A woman reminisces about a failed relationship with increasingly distressing mementos.
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Oblivion
About Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, brought on as a sidekick to Long Covid. It’s eye-opening and terrifying: During my first year of being bedbound, I enter a decline that seems like it will never end. I’m in free fall, my baseline sinking lower and lower each month, and I can only watch as it continues, this…
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Teeth
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Tutant Meenage Neetle Teetles
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Beach Tree