Anthologies

Tobacco: A Literary Anthology (Kentucky Writers’ Coalition & Wind Publications), 2004, In/Visible (Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival), 2024

Short Stories

“To Live or to Die, That Is the Question” In/Visible, 2024 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival Writing Awards short fiction finalist. “Alice, You’ve Got to Face It You’ve Been Holding This Back for Years” Exacting Clam, Autumn 2024 Flash fiction. “Control” Maudlin House, July 11, 2024 Flash fiction. “A Marriage in Subway Ads” Cosmorama, June 7, 2024 Experimental short fiction. “The Best We Can at the Time” Bulb Culture Collective, April 2024 Short fiction. “Little Jim” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, January/February 2024 Short fiction. “Blue” Doubleback Review, October 2023 Short fiction. “Goodbye, Nathan, Goodbye” Spaceports & Spidersilk, October 2023 Short fiction. “I go to prepare a place for you” Litro Lab Podcast, July 6, 2023 Flash fiction adapted for audio. “The Things We Keep” Doubleback Review, April 2023 Short fiction. “Meth” Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2023 Flash fiction. “Regression” Passages North, Spring 2023 Short fiction. “I go to prepare a place for you” The Offing, February 2, 2023 Flash fiction. “23,195 New Yorkers and Counting” Litro Lab Podcast, December 22, 2022 Flash fiction adapted for audio. “Shot” Anti-Heroin Chic, October 8, 2022 Flash fiction. “23andMe” Tough, September 19, 2022 Short fiction. “Class” Juked, September 8, 2022 Short fiction. “Violence” Ghost Parachute, September 1, 2022 Flash fiction. “#CoronaLife” McNeese Review, Summer 2022 Experimental short fiction. “Progression” Books Ireland, June 22, 2022 Experimental flash fiction. “Sniper Watch” Santa Monica Review, Spring 2022 Flash fiction. “Welcome, Friend” streetcake, March 2022 Experimental short fiction. “You Wanna Know Why I Did It, Mark, I’ll Tell You” MysteryTribune, March 8, 2022 Short fiction. “The Best We Can at the Time” KGB Bar Lit, December 2021 Short fiction. “How Not to Date Bruce Willis” Whisk(e)y Tit Journal, November 23, 2021 Short fiction. “Goodbye, Nathan, Goodbye” Saturday Evening Post, September 24, 2021 Short fiction. “First Wife, Part I” Malarkey Books Free Samples, September 3, 2021 Novel-in-progress excerpt. “Open House” Barcelona Review, August 2021 Flash fiction. “Rigor Mortis” Micro Podcast, March 15, 2021 Flash fiction adapted for audio. “Ahead of You” North Dakota Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2020 Experimental short fiction. “A Good Leg Is Hard to Find” Necessary Fiction, April 22, 2020 Short fiction. “Awake, O Sleeper” Saturday Evening Post, April 3, 2020 Short fiction. “Rigor Mortis” Juked, February 29, 2020 Flash fiction. “The Life of Houston Anderson” Arkansas Review, December 2019 Short fiction. “Blue” Natural Bridge, Fall 2019 Short fiction. “Apparition” Louisiana Literature, Fall/Winter 2019 Short fiction. “Calvertsville Resurrection” Gravel, December 2018 Short fiction. “Homecoming Sunday” Palo Alto Review, Spring 2006 Short fiction. “The Things We Keep” The Distillery, January 2006 Short fiction. “Because Everything Is Murder” StorySouth, Winter 2005 Short fiction.

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Terena Elizabeth Bell is a fiction writer. Her debut short story collection, Tell Me What You See (Whiskey Tit), was named one of the “best books of the century (so far)” by New York Society Library. Her work has appeared in more than 100 publications, including The Atlantic, Playboy, Salamander, and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. A Sinking Fork, Kentucky native, she lives in New York. Get one story delivered to your inbox every month by subscribing here: patreon.com/terenaelizabethbell.