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Quality Dime

Nomos Review is proud to announce that we are hosting the newest chapter of the beloved Dime Stories, International in beautiful Wine Country Temecula! Dime Stories is the national radio and podcast series that inspired 3-minute fiction on NPR. Bring … read more

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Wine Country Art Gallery Artists and Photographers

Wine Country Art Gallery celebrates artists read more

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Honoring Community Partners

Wine Country Art Gallery, in the heart of beautiful wine country Temecula, is hosting us for Dime Stories International on May 31.

We look forward to joining the artists at Wine Country Art Gallery for a fabulous evening of storytelling, wine and art. read more

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Comforting the Disturbed, Disturbing the Comfortable: A.M. Homes’s May We Be Forgiven

The suburban Dick and Jane characters of A.M. Homes’s oeuvre smoke crack, set their homes ablaze, lust for Barbie dolls, and teach teenage girls perversion. In her new novel, the trend continues with a duplicitous protagonist whose actions take us straight to the divided heart of human consciousness… read more

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Meet the Editor: Q&A with Lisa Sanchez

What makes you interested in a short story? For me, the best short stories are the ones that have some depth or layering, the ones that make you think as much about what’s not on the page as what is.

Do you have a special writing outfit or lucky charm? Definitely a pink chenille robe like Michael Douglas wears in Wonder Boys. And my Boston Terrier Napoleon who sleeps next to me while I write. read more

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What I Learned From Caravaggio

If you had only two days to spend in London, what would you do? For me, the answer is easy. I’d go back to the National Gallery. So last month when I was in London, I hopped on the tube and got off at Trafalgar Square.

I went to see the Botticelli first. Venus was looking lovely as ever. Next I proceeded to the Rembrandt room, then to Vermeer’s Young Woman standing at a Virginal. I oo’d and ah’d at these paintings. read more

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  • Current Issue: Fiction

    By Diana Yang

    In Guangzhou, we didn't see the sun very often but we felt its heat. It hung like a spongy fireball Read More→

    By Karin C. Davidson

    I wrote letters which I sealed in envelopes and at first didn’t send, afraid to acknowledge the Read More→

    By Lisa Sanchez

    My lover likes to say, I'll tell you this for free. He leans in close and takes you in his Read More→

    By Veronica Zerrer

    Charlotte focused on her husband’s medal, the certificate demonstrating the finality of it all. Read More→

    By Madeline Britain

    Bree had been cooking for the family since she boiled her first pot of mac and cheese at age ten. Read More→


      Current Issue: Nonfiction

      By Rasha Elaas

      I first saw the young man's death notice, announced on a flyer plastered outside the mosque. This Read More→

      By Louise Esola

      His bedroom still smelled of sharpened pencil, musk and leather. Boy smells. Lena spent hours Read More→

      By Denise Ferreira da Silva

      Walking towards the cops, the hundred meters between the corner and my house stretched far beyond Read More→

      By Loretta Berlonghi

      We learned the word, “Napalm.” We stared in terror at the destruction it produced. The jungle Read More→

      By Wendy Joseph

      On the open ocean, you seldom need to worry about traffic or rocks. Mostly you sit or stand and Read More→

      By Joanna Gorman

      A veil of darkness fell across my eyes and the room went dim like in a movie theater. The movie was Read More→

      By Helen Sabol Marx

      Whenever my mom drank too much Jim Beam at a party, her strong façade would crack and she would Read More→


      Current Issue: Poetry

      By Kristen Scott

      A Bird and the Dreamer a bird dangles quizzically above the sand and screams perched upon the Read More→

      By Christi Moon

      one stead question led us through a year of wonder Please purchase issue to read full Read More→

      By Loree Hill

      Remembering those who fought, fellow soldiers in my platoon, this war of wars, my war of Read More→

      By Kristen Scott

      The Scream (for Edvard Munch) at 3:00 a.m. the world is a lonely train screeching down Read More→

      By Loree Hill

      The beach is littered with hundreds of corpses dead seaweed strewn haphazardly across the Read More→

      By Christi Moon

      veined ache shakes evening's pall palace craved bubbles rake woo a hot spoon Please Read More→

      By Kristen Scott

      And, the bombs never stop diving dividing moon flickers with phosphorous families rip in Read More→

      By Christi Moon

      panoramic captives dangle seraphic swivel in silver bands of tangled light Please purchase Read More→


    • What is Nomos?

      The Greeks understood nomos as an expression of universal truth reflected in the human condition and rooted in our craving for meaning. Put simply, nomos is language constructing experience. Nothing exists apart from the stories we tell about it. Tell your story. Satisfy your craving.

      Nomos Review: Where Story is Everything.
    • Editor's Column

      Meet the Editor: Q&A with Lisa Sanchez

      By admin

      1. What makes you interested in a short story? How do you decide which stories to publish? For me, the best short stories are the ones that have some depth or layering, the ones that make you think as much about what’s not on the page as what is. This can be difficult to do. It’s really a matter of practice and a willingness to be introspective and to think about the world around you, about history, culture, and the depths of the human soul. A story doesn’t have to be that complex to Read More→

      What I Learned From Caravaggio

      By Lisa Sanchez

      If you had only two days to spend in London, what would you do? For me, the answer is easy. I’d go back to the National Gallery. So last month when I was in London, I hopped on the tube and got off at Trafalgar Square. I went to see the Botticelli first. Venus was looking lovely as ever. Next I proceeded to the Rembrandt room, then to Vermeer’s Young Woman standing at a Virginal. I oo’d and ah’d at these paintings. Vermeer’s work is always sublime, Rembrandt’s true to life, but I Read More→


    • Upcoming Nomos Events

      • May 23, 2013 6:30 pmRead and Respond with Professors and Nomos Review editors, Lisa Sanchez and Martin Japtok
      • May 24, 2013 6:30 pmDIME STORIES, TEMECULA launch party and reading
      • May 26, 2013 1:00 pmWeekend Writing Workshop with Nomos Review editor, Lisa Sanchez, Ph.D.
      • June 2, 2013 1:00 pmWeekend Writing Workshop with Nomos Review Editor, Lisa Sanchez
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    • From the Vault

      On Your Steps: Issue 1 Archives

      By Cynthia Girling

      I remember the weeping willow. I remember the weeping willow and its stubby branches that protected me from the enveloping heat, and the hungry sun. I remember how I would gently rock in a swing suspended from its black branch, while music floated through the sultry air of summer - distant, nearly imperceptible, but giving rhythm to the minutes and seconds of a life that passes too quickly. The intense sunlight devours the garden and obscures the thirsty flowers and begins to tickle my Read More→


    • Online Originals

      Whispers

      By Kyle Katz

      A private plane crashed. A family perished, along with their dog on their way to South Mission Read More→

      To the Last Bite

      By John Gray

      I lost a life-long friend yesterday. For over fifty years I knew him intimately, but not by name. Read More→

      A Pretty Good Life

      By William Melcher

      Some folks can turn the phone book into a good story. Witness, Bill Melcher's bio, or A Pretty Good Read More→

      Six Minute Poem 1 & 2

      By Joshua Potter

      Six Minute Poem 1 - I am. We are. It is. Lost in the distant reaches of a universe not of Read More→

      River Poem

      By Stephen Koontz

      The men march a river down the concourse, uniform in uniform. A man’s son chases Read More→

      Boomerang

      By Stefanie Allison

      Throw it away Everyone tells me It’s ugly and useless You need more!   My Read More→

      Grammatical Love

      By Hurd Sims IV

      I love the way those denim jeans hug your coordinating conjunction, but the curving to the rounds Read More→

      Nothing was Plain (in the Water’s Light)

      By R.T. Castleberry

      As I make my slow way home, cooled by the sentinel breezes of creek and cedar Read More→

      Simplicity

      By Alex Rosengarten

      Why do some people think that more words are better? Read More→

      Ode to Otis the Elevator

      By Alex Rosengarten

      Oh Otis, my metal lotus! Your doors always open slowest for me. What a tease! I see Read More→

    • Quality Dime



      Nomos Review is proud to announce that we are hosting the newest chapter of the beloved Dime Stories, International in beautiful Wine Country Temecula! Dime Stories is the national radio and podcast reading series that inspired 3-minute fiction on NPR.

      Bring your funniest, quirkiest, most riveting 3-minute story or just a listening ear to Wine Country Art Gallery in Temecula for some quality dime with fabulous local writers. The top three stories are recorded and broadcast on Dime Stories website: http://dimestories.org/.

      You can read fiction or creative nonfiction/memoir, even a novel excerpt with a slapdash ending. You don’t have to be a published or professional writer, but you may get to rub elbows with one, and you never know who might be listening.

      When: Friday, May 24 at 6:30 p.m., and once a month thereafter: June 21, July 19, etc...

      Where: Wine Country Art Gallery. 34567 Rancho California Road, Temecula, CA 92591. From I-15, go east on Rancho California until you see the gallery by the Van Roekel Winery windmill on the right.

    • Editor’s Pick

      IN MY HOUSE, THERE ARE BOOKS
      by Wendy Joseph

      In my house, there are books
      Volumes that you open,
      With pages that you turn
      Margins that you write in,
      And sentences you circle,
      To remember

      Pages that you dog-ear,
      Covers that you treasure
      And in the middle, photos
      The part you turn to first

      A binding and a backbone
      If paperback, a ritual
      Crack the spine down the center
      And one to either side
      The better the book to open
      Fully and complete

      In my house, there are books


    • Chain Poem

      Do you like books as much as we do?
      Do you like they way they smell and feel?
      The way they look in your book case?
      The memories they evoke?

      We were so inspired by Wendy Joseph's
      poem, "In my House, There are Books,"
      the we decided to start a series on books.

      Send a poem or essay of 200 words
      or less to editors@nomosreview.com
      and we will consider it for publication
      in our series on books. Your poem or
      essay will appear on the homepage of
      of Nomos Review with a link to your bio.


    • Tagged Authors

      A.M. Homes Alex Rosengarten Charlotte Bronte Christi Moon Chuck Palahniuk Dante Puccetti Dave Eggers David Foster Wallace Denise Ferreira da Silva Denis Johnson Diana Yang Edgar Allen Poe Fyodor Dostoyevsky Helen Sabol Marx Henry James Hurd Sims IV Joanna Gorman John Cheever John Gray Joshua Potter Karin C. Davidson Kayla Roth Kristen Scott Kyle Katz Lisa Sanchez Loree Hill Loretta Berlonghi Louise Esola Madeline Britain Marcel Proust Mira Laurel R.T. Castleberry Rasha Elaas Robert Olen Butler Russell Shor Stefanie Allison Stephen Koontz Susan Melcher Reed Sylvia Plath Traci Foust Veronica Zerrer Virginia Woolf Vladimir Nabokov Wendy Joseph William Faulkner
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