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Make beleive
Three poems trace addiction, exile, loneliness, and memory through surreal images where writing becomes a ritual of survival.
Collected Works in Contemporary Art and Literature
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The Pain of Hunger
“Hunger leaves an impression on you that you can’t forget. Even when you aren’t still hungry. Even in his 80s, my grandfather wouldn’t waste any type of food. Not only…
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God Loves Guns, Women, and Freedom
A sardonic god refutes an optometrist’s theory of history, unraveling illusions, power, and the mirrors of the human heart with acerbic candor.
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A Question of Belief
A luminous meditation on belief, memory, and loss—tracing a journey from religious certainty to the embrace of uncertainty, and the enduring need for meaning.
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Split Entry
“Amazing how much an elbow can bleed. Blood all around: on my clothes, on the varnished wood stairs… my father continues flailing, lashing, screaming at me, blinded by his tsunami…
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Exhuming Jennifer’s Body
A reflective and emotionally nuanced reclaiming of Jennifer’s Body as a cult queer artifact—lush in mid‑2000s Gothic nostalgia and feminine agency.
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Empty White Christmas
“My brother, I decided, was so awfully angry, brimmed with fuming, outrageous words that he’d sewn and strung together in long, awkward streams that slammed into my heart because he…
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Meditations
A generational meditation on memory, identity, and affirmation through intimate portraits of self, mother, and a fading patriarch.
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The Summer of TBR is Here
The Summer 2025 issue of The Brussels Review offers a captivating blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, showcasing diverse voices and narratives.
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Introducing TBR Dark
What binds these stories together is not genre, but mood: an atmosphere of hesitation, rupture, and epistemological drift… They ask what remains of the human when its constructs—identity, memory, even…