Roe River Review - Spring 2026
Roe River Review is a jourrnal of fiction.
Table of Contents
Conkers…………...…………………………………….1
Jay Taylor
A Bird in the Hand…………………………………………...4
DS Levy
Stuck…………………………..…………………………………8
Meghan Davis
Anniversary…………………………………………………...11
Dylan Night
East into the Morning Sun……………………...…………15
Steve Gerson
Contributors………………………………………………….17
Contributors
Meghan Davis graduated from Susquehanna University with a major in Psychology and a minor in Philosophy and Creative Writing.
Steve Gerson’s chapbooks include Once Planed Straight; Viral; And the Land Dreams Darkly; The 13th Floor: Step into Anxiety; What Is Isn’t; There is a Season; Have Not, and Who Am I Today.
DS Levy is a graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, and lives in the Midwest.
Dylan Night is a former medical professional and published author. His work has most recently appeared in Able Muse, Wingless Dreamer, In Parentheses, Lilomul, Neon Origami, and Querencia. He is currently work-shopping his most recent novel, and resides in San Diego, California with his partner and stepchild.
Jay Taylor is an actor, playwright and screenwriter. He studied acting at RADA and has worked in theatre, film, and television for 18 years. His first play, The Acedian Pirates, was produced by Theatre503 in London, in 2016, and is published by Nick Hern Books. He lives in Hackney, London with his girlfriend and their Shiba Inu, Kylo. He is an avid reader, and tries to read a variety of fiction and non-fiction. He enjoys running, cycling, walking, cooking, and of course…writing!
Roe River Review - 2025 Flash Fiction Open
Roe River Review is a journal of fiction.
Table of Contents
2025 Flash Fiction Open
First Place
Spinning Out of Control...……………………………….1
Barry Vitcov
Second Place
Porcupine……………...…………….………………......5
William Watson
Third Place
The Robbery of 1372 Beauregard….….………...……11
Warren Stoddard
Finalists
The Tradition………………………………………...15
Eric Julian Baker
Gilantus-341……………...………….……….……...…19
Greer Dinhr
Ground Zero: Vermont Junior High……………..…..23
Patrick Johnston
The Hawks…………………………….……………..27
Thomas Misuraca
Forest…...…...…………………………….........…….29
Mykyla Ryzhysh
Contributors…………..………………………….…..……...33
Cover Art: Alaina Hammond, Chrysler Building, 2011, acrylic on paper, 8x11 inches
Roe River Review - Winter 2025
Roe River Review is a journal of fiction.
Table of Contents
Stone Face..………………………………………………..1
Josh Megson
The Stalled Time..…….…………………………………..3
Carrie Alice Hiltz
Leslie and Georgette………….…………………………..5
Renée Frackiewicz Gravesen
Easter Eve.…………….…………………………………..6
Julia Rajagopalan
Feeling Deflated…….…………………………………….9
Cindy Kluck-Nygren
Contributors……………………………………………..…...13
Contributors
Renée Frackiewicz Gravesen is a writer and maker whose work layers spiritual reckoning, fantasy, and a love of love. Shaped by BBC dramatizations, old folk songs, and her Guatemalan, German, Polish, and Midwestern-Chicagoan heritage, she crafts poems and hybrid texts exploring interiority, myth, glamour, goblins, and grief. Her lyrical play In Remembrance is currently in development alongside a body of poems.
Carrie Alice Hiltz is a student in the MFA Fiction Writing Program at the University of New Hampshire. She lives in Maine with her husband and children.
Cindy Kluck-Nygren is a Chicago native currently living in Texas who has recently come home to creative writing. Her first piece of speculative fiction appeared in the September 2025 issue of Möbius Blvd. and received an Honorable Mention from ALLEGORY. She also contributed a memoir to a 2024 holiday anthology. Cindy has worked in the corporate, financial, nonprofit, and healthcare sectors. She is an avid fan of live music, travel, small batch baking, and long walks. In that order. And the long walks are only so she can continue small batch baking.
Josh Megson is a fiction writer from Albemarle, North Carolina. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University of Charlotte. His writings are rooted in the rural south, as he is, living with his partner and cat
Julia Rajagopalan is a writer of speculative and literary fiction who lives just outside of Detroit, Michigan, with her husband and their grumpy dog. For a list of her publications, check out her website: www.JuliaRajagopalan.com.
Roe River Review - Autumn 2025
Roe River Review is a journal of fiction.
Table of Contents
Ziggy’s Last Cigarette…...…………………………….1
Kenneth M. Kapp
Warrant……………….………………………………………...5
Erik Peters
Kitchen Lizards and Lounge Lizards……………………7
Patrick Johnston
Misplaced…………………………………………………….....8
Christopher Stolle
To Serve in Retail Hell…………...……………...…………12
Alaina Hammond
Saving More than $500…………..……………...…………14
Niles Reddick
Contributors………………………………………………….16
Contributors
Alaina Hammond is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, and visual artist. Her poems, plays, short stories, philosophical essays, creative nonfiction, paintings, drawings and photographs have been published both online and in print. https://www.instagram.com/alainaheidelberger
Patrick Johnston is a UK-born writer and former professor of psychology and neuroscience. Living nomadically, he writes fiction and poetry that fracture memory, myth, and noir absurdism into experimental collages. His work has appeared in The Louisville Review, Love and Literature, Blood & Honey Review, and The Bookends Review.
Kenneth M. Kapp lives with his wife in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, writing late at night in his man-cave. He enjoys chamber music and mysteries. Please visit www.kmkbooks.com. His stories have appeared in more than ninety publications world-wide.
Erik Peters is a father and avid mediaevalist from Vancouver, Canada. His writing is influenced by late antiquity, his family, and his students. Erik has been featured in Coffin Bell, Zoetic, Takahe, Beyond Literary Words, and Thirty West. You can check out all Erik's work at erikpeters.ca.
Niles Reddick is author of a novel, four short fiction collections, and two novellas. His work has appeared in over five hundred publications including The Saturday Evening Post (which ranked him among the Top Ten Most Popular New Fiction of 2019), Cheap Pop, Flash Fiction Magazine, Citron Review, Midway Journal, Hong Kong Review, and Vestal Review. He is an eight-time Pushcart nominee, a three-time Best of the Net nominee, and a three-time Best Micro nominee.
Christopher Stolle has many roles: writer, uncle, better half, music aficionado, and baseball enthusiast. His writing has been published by Indiana University Press, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Coaches Choice, Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, and Plath Poetry Project, among many others. He has two Pushcart nominations and lives in Richmond, Indiana.
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