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Short Stories, Novel Excerpts, and Poetry by Alex Kudera

SHORT STORIES

"The Golden Snot," serious-lit, August 19, 2026 (forthcoming)

"Seven Twenty-Five," Loser IV, July 27, 2026

"Scout," Loser II, June 28, 2026

"The Waiter," Loser I, June 2, 2026

"Going to Hell," Russian trans. from Sergey Katukov, East West Literary Forum, Jan. 28, 2026

"A Separate Piece," Citywide Lunch, December 8-12, 2025

"A Day's Worth," Eclectica Magazine, July 2025

"Chinese Sun," Meniscus, Volume 12, Issue 2, pages 139 to 146, November 2024

"Going to Hell," Soyos Books, November 11, 2023

"An Amazing Turn," New Oxford Review, January-February 2023

"On the Plane," in Zeitgeist: Stories Capturing Different Eras in the Vast Expanse of Time, December 2022

"Early Morning Train," Humans of the World, June 2022

"An Old Friend Called," Lighthouse Weekly, March 2022

"A Thanksgiving," Eclectica Magazine, July 2021

"Bombing From Above," Heavy Feather Review, June 2020

"Over Fifty Billion Kafkas Served," Eclectica Magazine, October 2019 "Awash in Barach and Bolano," The Agonist, July 2019

"About Your Status," Monkeybicycle, June 2019 "Free Car," Heavy Feather Review, September 2018 "My Father's Great Recession," Heavy Feather Review, March 2018

"Frade Killed Ellen," Dutch Kills Press, July 2015

"Turquoise Truck," Mendicant Bookworks, September 2015

"The Betrayal of Times of Peace and Prosperity," Gone Dog Press, February 2011

POETRY

"Conversation Slam," Deadbeat Anti Lit Magazine: Volume 1, July 5, 2026 

NOVEL EXCERPTS

A School of the Future

"The Guicciardini Way" (an excerpt from A School of the Future), Be About It Press, August 19, 2026

Spark Park

"Uncle Sam's Decline": An Excerpt from Spark Park, The Airgonaut, September 2022

"Persecuting the Poet": An Excerpt from Spark Park, Malarkey Books, June 2021

"Night Shift": An Excerpt from Spark Park, Revolution John, April 2021

Auggie's Revenge

from Part I, Chapter 3: "Be Patient, Rover" at American, British and Canadian Studies

Part I, Chapters 1-3: Auggie's Revenge Sample at Beating Windward Press

Fight for Your Long Day

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Lucy Zhang @ Heavy Feather Review

Lucy Zhang has joined Jason Teal and Hillary Leftwich at Heavy Feather Review as a Fiction and Nonfiction Editor. Zhang tweets @Dango_Ramen and publishes flash fiction often. Submit your poetry and prose for full consideration!

Bombing From Above

"In my actions, I was opposite this sentient cadre of uber-citizens successfully navigating a fast-paced American city. If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, and so on. No, I was a crazed lunatic, a fringe adjunct who’d flown halfway around the world to scold others in foul weather. Do something! My God! Thank goodness I had the decency to leave that scene. I’m certain that the young woman was alive. I pray that she recovered. Hopefully, there was no permanent paralysis."

~~ from "Bombing From Above" by Alex Kudera

HFR II

Heavy Feather Review is also making public its archive of poetry and fiction from its print magazine.

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Heavy Feather Review, publisher of "My Father's Great Recession" and "Free Car," has new prose from Stina French and Henry Giardina.

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Free Car

Thanks to Heavy Feather Review, "Free Car" is available anywhere short stories are read online!