REVIEW: “This Island Towards Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone” by Jennifer Lesh Fleck

Review of Jennifer Lesh Fleck, “This Island Toward Which I Row and Row, Yet Cannot Reach Alone,” Flash Fiction Online 141 (June 2025): 8-12 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman.

I love it when a title is almost an entire story in itself.

I love it even more when the story that goes with the title is not at all what I thought it would be, and yet the title is exactly right for the story.