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Nick Almeida

Nick Almeida’s stories and essays have appeared in Pleiades, Southeast Review, American Literary Review, and elsewhere. Almeida, a PhD candidate at the University of Houston, holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers, where he edited Bat City Review. His chapbook, Masterplans, was selected by Steve Almond as grand prize winner of the inaugural Masters Review Chapbook Open in fiction, and is available now.

Fiction

Spring 2024

The Keys

By Nick Almeida

The Kenyon Review · “The Keys” by Nick Almeida 1. “Here’s the game,” Veronica said. We were at the Saloon, not even a beer deep, surrounded by wall-mounted bric-a-brac, photos […]