The Brussels Review: Winter 2025

Featured artist: Dr. Benjamin Erlandson, cover: "Ritual, No. 1"

Ten stories, four poets, and four essays — among them Shena Cavallo on the junk dealers of Athens and the flea markets of Pennsylvania, and Dritan Kiçi on the dimensionality of character. The fiction ranges from Mary Burns's The Corsaire's Daughters to Shanti Ariker's Fungal Vengeance in the Bro-Verse.

Nonfiction

Shena Cavallo: Junk People 
Cynthia Graae: A Wedding Promise 
Burcu Seyben: Private Lessons 
Dritan Kiçi: The Dimensionality of the Character

Poetry

C. Desirée Finley (Fin) 
Greg Sendi 
Rip Underwood 
Sarah Dunphy-Lelii

Fiction

Corey Mertes: The Doctrine of Signatures 
Jon Filipek: Here We Go Again 
Laurence Klavan: The Sleepwalker 
Lia Tjokro: The Caretaker of Tears 
Mary Burns: The Corsaire's Daughters 
Kevin Joseph Reigle: Zebulon Burning 
Lydia Renfro: Greetings From 
Shanti Ariker: Fungal Vengeance in the Bro-Verse 
Victor McConnell: Machines Don't Whimper 
Ross McQueen: Voice in the Storm