The Brussels Review: Summer 2025
Summary
Cover: Ximena Maldonado Sánchez, "Ambar", 2025, oil and acrylic on canvas, 40 × 30 cm
Thirteen stories and three essays, with four poets given generous room: Sonnet Mondal, Yelena Moskovich, Christina Brannon and Paul O'Brien. Patrick ten Brink opens the fiction with The Word Thief; Louis Kummerer supplies a founding father's guide to contingency planning; Yannick Marien closes with Mrs. Purefoy.
Nonfiction
Gaye Brown: Some Gifts
Sue Tong: Father in the Photograph
Gina Elia: Show and Tell
Fiction
Patrick ten Brink: The Word Thief
Beatriz Seelaender: Motion Picture Sickness
Louis Kummerer: A Founding Father's Guide to Contingency Planning
Charles Wilkinson: Hayden in March
Danila Botha: Like Freedom or Fear
Molly Collins: Violent Design
Jonathan D. Scott: Please Help Yourself
Crystal McQueen: The Begotten One
Joshua Carlucci: We'll Ride Them Someday
Wilson Neate: His Last Picture in the Ashes of the Fire
Stacey Megally: I Get the Lies
Gabrielle Glaslyn: The Farthest Sea
Yannick Marien: Mrs. Purefoy
Poetry
Sonnet Mondal: Fragments of Life · The Biscuit Factory · The Bridge at Midnight · Grandpa's Veranda
Yelena Moskovich: Little Morning · Beauty · Lack · Girlfriend · Time · Manuscript · A Name
Christina Brannon: Experience More Than Clean · I really can't · pink
Paul O'Brien: Perishing Beauties · Gran Paradiso · Zenith · Beneath the Layers · Face Unseen · Ecce Ovis · From a Bridge