The Shortest Night

Victoria Chang

And when I looked up,the sky had also turned black,and I had aged ahundred more feet down the road.The owl was on thenext tree with mirrors as eyes,in case I wantedto see my future. When Ilooked, I lost another year.

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Victoria Chang’s poetry books include OBIT, Barbie Chang, The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. Her children’s books include Is Mommy?, illustrated by Marla Frazee, and Love, Love, a middle grade novel. She lives in Los Angeles and serves as the program chair of Antioch’s low-residency MFA program.

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Volume 39.1

Tallahassee, Florida

Florida State University

Editor in Chief
Laura Biagi

Assistant Editor
Amanda Hadlock

Poetry Editors
Brett Hanley
Natalie Tombasco
Anthony Borruso

Assistant Poetry Editor
Nicholas Goodly

Contributing Editor 
Diamond Forde

The Southeast Review, established in 1979 as Sundog, is a national literary magazine housed in the English department at Florida State University, edited and managed by graduate students. Our mission is to present emerging writers on the same stage as well-established ones. We publish literary fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, interviews, and art across our biannual print issues and online. With nearly sixty members on our editorial staff who come from throughout the country and around the world, we publish work that is representative of our diverse interests and aesthetics, and we celebrate the eclectic mix this produces.

 

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