Nick Story's first ever contribution to The Rialto Books Review presents a compelling scene and characters that are intuitive to the reader, despite the work's brevity.
Adam Kodak's story about a pianist wrestling with a promising past, old age, injury, and senescence is a compelling study of terminal ingratitude.
Alexandra Ranieri's novella The Lighthouse continues in The Rialto Books Review vol.023. You can find earlier installments of The Lighthouse in previous volumes of The Rialto Books Review or on our Substack The Ha'Penny Papers.