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Big Mouth
Alice enters a Nebraska fair’s marble-mouth contest and finds the courage to name what has been silently haunting her.
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The Summer 2025 issue of The Brussels Review offers a captivating blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, showcasing diverse voices and narratives.


What binds these stories together is not genre, but mood: an atmosphere of hesitation, rupture, and epistemological drift… They ask what remains of the human when its constructs—identity, memory, even…

A raw journey through Muay Thai, rage, and fleeting healing in Northern Thailand—where violence becomes both discipline and catharsis.

A tender meditation on memory, wilderness, and estrangement, where childhood longing and ancient language entwine.

When fear stretches itself and awakens our strength / When noise stretches itself, and you start listening / and the beast stretches itself to become human / It is never…

The desert in Ximena Maldonado Sánchez’s paintings is not a place but a pulsing, radioactive body remembering heat, exile, and hallucination.


“I want a portal I can walk through to a place where people aren’t permitted to visit twice: youth. I want my parent’s laughter crackling through my ears half a…