My Friend Jesus by Kamala Puligandla My friend Jesus says he usually goes by Chuey or Chuchi or Leon, which is his last name, but considering that we’ve just officially met, and we’re at school—“a very official place,” he says—he’ll have me call him Jesus. “Thanks,” I say. “Yeah,” he says offhandedly and then stares … Continue reading
How To Be Lucky by Jean Burnet Because they could afford it, they had a large wedding. Dick’s family was all there, shooting looks in her direction. Rita’s was too. In the few short hours before her union, her mother—who made a fuss of everything—tried to teach her something about love. Her friends came, too. … Continue reading
Our fiction editor for January and February, Aaron Counts has written and read with professors, prisoners, dropouts & scholars. He is the co-author of the non-fiction text Reclaiming Black Manhood, and is a social justice speaker and educator. Aaron is an artist-in-residence with the Writers-in-the-Schools program, and the lead artist with King County’s Creative Alternatives Program, which uses … Continue reading
Erin Sroka, Fiction Editor for November/December, is a writer living in Durham, North Carolina. Why work for The James Franco Review: I like the playfulness in the submission process, the conceit that you can take a break from being just another writer, sitting at a desk in sweatpants, damp with anxieties about not making it. Instead, you … Continue reading
The James Franco Review 