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Stories no one hopes are about them
Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award
Lambda Award Finalist
“Bermudez eloquently and powerfully writes of objectification and exploitation. This is a must-read.”
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award
Lambda Award Finalist
“Bermudez eloquently and powerfully writes of objectification and exploitation. This is a must-read.”
— Publishers Weekly, starred review
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fiction
“Killjoy” | New Stories from the South Anthology 2026 Edition (preorder the book here), originally published in The Hopkins Review
“Barracuda” | Story
“Hello from Nowhere” | Virginia Quarterly Review
“The Sixteenth Brother” | The Common
“The Turtle” | StoryQuarterly
“King of Infinite Space” | December Magazine
“The Real India” | The Pushcart Prize XLVIII: Best of the Small Presses 2024 Edition (order the book here), originally published in Virginia Quarterly Review
“The God of Ugly Things” | Philadelphia Stories
“Rabbitfish” | So It Goes: Core of the American Experience, Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library, originally published in SmokeLong Quarterly
“Bottle Girl” | Electric Literature
“Retrospect” | Epiphany
“Picking the Wound” | Moon City Review
“All the Places You Will Never Be Again” | Chicago Quarterly Review
“Ori Dreams of a Tree” | Stories of the Nature of Cities Anthology (order the book here)
“The Third Trip” | Coastal Shelf
“Octopus” | Story
“Obscure Trivia of the Antarctic” | Boulevard
“Mnemophobe” | Chicago Review
“Casualty” | Columbia Journal
“Maslow’s Hierarchy of Post-Pandemic Wish Fulfillment” | McSweeney’s
“Insertion” | The Offing
“Picking the Wound” | Moon City Review
“The Body Electric” | Gertrude Press
“Year of the Snake” | The Masters Review
“Totenhaus” | Black Static
“Eating the Leaves“ | Lunch Ticket
“Sabbatical” | Cheap Pop Literary
“Cain vs. Cain” | Iron Horse Literary Review
nonfiction
“A Woman Isn’t a Muse” | Electric Literature
“Acqua Alta” | Raft Magazine
“Fossil Land” | The Kenyon Review
“Misery & Company” | LitHub, originally published in Creative Nonfiction
“Conservancy” | Litro
“The Voice as Heirloom” | Fiction International
“Rosa” | Every Day Fiction
“Write Like a Filmmaker” | Logline
“Fall” | The Baltimore Review
“Water & Earth” | Bad Bride
“Walk-Off” | Hobart
poetry
“Q3 Earnings” | Copper Nickel
“Party to,” “In a Disaster” | Southwest Review
“Medicine” | LIT Magazine
“Lanternfly” | Southern Humanities Review
“Bad Immigrant” | Ninth Letter
“Logical Preposition” | Boudin
“A Good Review” | New Ohio Review
“Missing” | Mantis (University of Stanford Press)
“Frontier” | Hawai’i Pacific Review
“Promotion” | Eclectica
“Los Angeles,” “Cartography” | The Banyan Review
“Pass[age]” | PLOT Journal
“Ní de Aqui, Ní de Alla” | Arachne Press
“On the Negligible Proximity of Money and Mouths” | Heirlock
“The Breakneck Boys” | Concīs