Publications

Book

The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Patasola Press, June 2011.

“Rae Bryant’s stories yank at you over and over, desperate to give you the clue you never had and to point you, by what’s left out, to a spot on this good earth where the heart might flourish. Getting there is your business, she seems to say, and she doesn’t hold out much hope of your arrival, or of hers. Is it fun? Not so much. Is it necessary? Absolutely.” —Frederick Barthelme

“Rae Bryant’s fiction is smart and sexy and post-feminist and dangerous and akin to doing the tango with a succubus.  Do you feel lucky? Part Hannah Tinti, part Kim Addonizio—with enough intense characters, flashy dreams, and edgy visions to entangle your heart and skull for eons. Bite into these thorny stories, before they sink their teeth into you.” —Richard Peabody, Editor Gargoyle Magazine

More blurbs, interviews and reviews about The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals.

 

Fiction in Print and Online Journals

Coming Soon…

  • “Good Girl,” Story Quarterly
  • “Pop Modern Genesis,” Gargoyle Magazine
  • “The Art of Truncation,” Ampersand Review
  • “Coffined,” Ampersand Review
  • Untitled, En(Un)Gender Me, an anthology from PS Books, a division of Philadelphia Stories_

“Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee,” Big Muddy (Reprint)

“The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, Relatives and Gin,” BLIP Magazine

“[Jeezus] Changed My Oil Today,” Opium Magazine

“Emperatriz de la Orilla del Río,” PANK

“Solipsy Street,” Metazen

“All You Bad Sinners,” decomP
“Postfeminist Zombie Assassins Wear Wonder Woman Underoos,” The Medulla Review

“Featherbedding,” >kill author, Issue 8: The Vladimir Nabokov Issue

  • “Bryant transforms the man and woman into huddled and hungry animals clinging to one another. But the other half of that mixture, that of hope, is what makes this story stand out in any roomful of great stories” (“Sheldon Lee Compton on Rae Bryant,” >kill author);
  • “Short and sweetly erotic without going over the top…” (Jared Randall, Sabotage).

“Stage Play in Five Acts of Her: Matinee,” BLIP Magazine (formerly Mississippi Review)

“Chinchillas in the Air,” Annalemma

“Collecting Calliope,” Weave Magazine , Issue 4

“Paddlehead,” Caper Literary Journal

  • Currently nominated for Best of the Net 2010.

“Buttercrisp,” Pear Noir!, Issue 4

“Monk Man and Moonshine,” Menda City Review

“Stiletto Dance,” Foundling Review

  • Currently nominated for Best of the Net 2010.
“Fifty Years in Halves,” Word Riot
“Fly Fishing in Neoprene Legs,” Foliate Oak Literary Magazine

“Everything’s Better with Pesto,” Staccato

“Intolerable Impositions,” Bartleby Snopes
  • Currently nominated for Dzanc’s Best of the Web 2011 Anthology;
  • An Editor’s Choice for Bartleby Snopes, Issue 4;
  • Second Place in Bartleby Snopes Short Story of the Month competition.

“Street Red,” Writer’s Bloc (Rutgers-Camden)

“I Keep a Vine Woven Basket by the Front Door,” A capella Zoo, Issue 4 
“Sublimity in Turquoise Blue,” Farrago’s Wainscot
  • “Impressive . . . compelling,” Charles Tan at Bibliophile Stalker;
  • “Best of 2009,” Berrien Henderson.

“A Clockpunk Micro,” Thaumatrope

“The Peregrine and the Mermaid,” Southern Fried Weirdness

  • Editor-nominated for Storysouth’s Million Writers Award;
  • “Stellar storytelling . . .” Berrien Henderson, Author of “The Girl in the Green Sequined Dress.”

“A History of Bloody Point, St. Christopher’s Island (1626)” Whidbey Writers’

  • Whidbey Writers’ Short Story Competition Winner, July 2008.

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Poetry

“Capture Escape,” Willows Wept Review

“Pomegranate Kiss,” The Shine Journal

  • The Shine Journal:“Best Websites for Writers” (Writer’s Digest Reader’s Poll) and “TOP TEN” (2007 Preditors & Editors Poll.)

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Articles, Reviews and Creative Nonfiction

Review of What May Have Been by Gary Percesepe and Susan Tepper, Puerto del Sol 

“Rae Bryant Ponders Nabokov’s Signs & Symbols,” Beatrice.com

“My First Rooftop Party,” The Quivering Pen

“Rae Bryant on Elaine Chiew,” Kill Author

“Going Green,” Literary Traveler