The Sandy River Review

Celebrating over 20 years of publication!

Episode
May 14, 2021
By Lucia Haase Phantoms of fogwalk into morningthroughout the forest,stretching – yawning… secreted faunain shadows, creepby fern and brackenyet asleep. Cool winds howl,a kind …Read More »
sundays
May 11, 2021
By Rachel Tanner sunday mornings we wake and you stretch limbs over me protectively,kiss my forehead, breathe my own nameback into my mouth. we’ve been …Read More »
The Shack
May 7, 2021
By William Heath The pickers are long gone,just a few men have jobs.Cotton choppers replaced bycrop-dusting planes sprayingweed-killing poison. Greenmachines resembling giganticgrasshoppers, bloated binsfor …Read More »
[I Am] Unreliable
May 4, 2021
By Alyssa Pickarts The disgusting algae attached tomy mother’s favorite porch windowmakes me wanna gag. The bioluminescent greenlooks like my father‘s fungi foot. “It’s …Read More »
Blue
April 30, 2021
By Anita Kestin This is probably nearing an end I think, as I see the shorter one start to fidget a bit in her …Read More »