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Amy DeBellis

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Amy DeBellis's writing has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net, has appeared in the Wigleaf Top 50 Longlist, and can be found in X-R-A-Y, Uncharted, Passages North, Write or Die, Trampset, Pithead Chapel, Fractured, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, and over 50 other literary journals.

She has served as the judge for two literary contests: The Feign Lit Fiction Prize and the Moonlit Getaway Fiction Prize.

Her literary inspirations include Donna Tartt (her favorite novel of all time is The Secret History), Chuck Palahniuk, R.F. Kuang, Mona Awad, Hanya Yanagihara, and Carmen Maria Machado.
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All Our Tomorrows

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Incompleteness

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Penumbra

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“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
Albert Einstein
Methuselah by Amy DeBellis
"The story’s alternating chapters mirror memory itself: fragmented, looping, and quietly devastating. As Tessa obsesses over the fate of an ancient tree in a dying world, her fixation becomes a poignant metaphor for endurance and fragility: of nature," Read more of this review »
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The Height of Land by M.C. Benner Dixon
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“It seemed that it never stopped. That she was constantly doomed to always look to the future, her mind always skipping one step ahead, until it and she reached the inevitable end.”
Amy DeBellis, All Our Tomorrows

“He was covered with ink, but this piece stood out to her. The script that flowed over his forearm said “If I could, I would. Baby, I swear I would.” She looked the words up later, thinking they were song lyrics, but found nothing that matched. Maybe the tattoo artist had meant to do lyrics but had gotten it wrong. Or maybe she was misremembering, or maybe they were pathless, lyrics to nothing.”
Amy DeBellis, All Our Tomorrows

“But we will awaken too early, not to growth but to decay:
A dying chrysalis emerging into an endless dark.”
Amy DeBellis, Incompleteness

“It seemed that it never stopped. That she was constantly doomed to always look to the future, her mind always skipping one step ahead, until it and she reached the inevitable end.”
Amy DeBellis, All Our Tomorrows

“He was covered with ink, but this piece stood out to her. The script that flowed over his forearm said “If I could, I would. Baby, I swear I would.” She looked the words up later, thinking they were song lyrics, but found nothing that matched. Maybe the tattoo artist had meant to do lyrics but had gotten it wrong. Or maybe she was misremembering, or maybe they were pathless, lyrics to nothing.”
Amy DeBellis, All Our Tomorrows

“We all live this way; things fall apart and their corpses rot in front of us as we adapt to a lesser way of living.”
Elle Nash, Deliver Me

“That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.”
Albert Einstein

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