By Danica Longair “Cantonese Lessons for a Foreign Daughter-in-Law” originated as a flash piece. Cantonese is spoken a lot in my family, and though an English speaker, I once knew about 50 phrases. My mother-in-law, a native Cantonese speaker, had cancer. It struck me...
By Molly Freedenberg Sometimes, I have a story I want to write and am trying to find the right place to publish it. Other times, the publication comes first, and the magazine’s specific container inspires the story. The process of “Unmasked” was the latter. As soon as...
By Jennifer Robinson I had recently emerged from a terrible chronic pain situation that utterly changed my life. Writing became my way of making sense of this experience. I found solace in the works of other artists—particularly Beethoven—and in the words of good...
By Sherine Elbanhawy I have been subscribed to The Masters Review for years, and I love the work they publish. They were my first choice for “Night Stencils.” All summer, I kept revising the story up until the deadline. I couldn’t believe it when I got short-listed;...
Keywords: Outline: “The Swimming Hole” was at least four years old when I started submitting it. It started as a flash fiction piece centred on a setting I loved, the covered bridge in Wakefield, Quebec. After between 10 and 20 revisions and two or three rounds of...
