Welcome to The Houston Literary Review
September 2008 Fiction Issue
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Deanna Benjamin is a recent graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a native Houstonian who now lives and teaches writing in St. Louis, Missouri. This is her first online publication.
the houston literary review is very excited to present two fiction pieces by Atar Hadari.
The Night Kennedy Got Shot is in the Neo-Narrative style.
The Wedding Ghost is in a traditional modern style, but very touching.
Cllick on the links to read each of these artistic pieces. 
Please take a moment and read James Stanton's Glass.
We hope you enjoy Erin's Rearview Mirror
Erin M. Kinch lives and writes in Fort Worth, TX, where she shares her home with her husband of six years and their rambunctious golden retriever. More of Erin's short fiction can be read in a variety of print and online publications, such as "Every Day Fiction,"
"Perpetual Magazine," "Allegory," "A Thousand Faces," "Sporty Spec:
Games of the Fantastic," and "Electric Spec."
She is a member of Panther City's finest writing group, Writer's Ink. For more information about Erin's fiction, visit her blog at www.erinmkinch.com.
Stefanie Freele’s recent credits include American Literary Review, South Dakota Review, Literary Mama, Etchings, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Westview, Café Irreal, Permafrost, Hobart, and Contrary.
Please take a moment and read Stephanie's DRUNKS HAVE SELF-GRANTED GRAMMATICAL AMNESTY
Stepfanie has upcoming work in Glimmer Train, Talking River, Cezanne's Carrot, Writers Journal and in a speculative fiction anthology titled Futuristic Motherhood.
Stephanie received the 2008 Kathy Fish Fellowship and am the Writer In Residence for SmokeLong Quarterly. Also, she is completing an MFA thesis at the Whidbey Writers Workshop in Washington.
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