Henrick Karoliszyn

Henrick Karoliszyn is a writer based in New Orleans. His fiction was selected and anthologized by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, shortlisted twice for the Letter Review Prize, named winner of the 2025 Breakwater Review Fiction Contest, and a finalist for the 2026 Kurt Vonnegut Speculative Fiction Prize while appearing in McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Flash Fiction Magazine, Superlative Literary Journal, Blood+Honey, BULL, The Argyle Literary Magazine and ExPat Press along with forthcoming editions of Modern Flash Fiction, The Threepenny Review, The Swannanoa Review, and FOLIO Literary Journal. I was also most recently chosen as a 2026 Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Author Fellow and a 2026 scholarship recipient for the Adobe Press Short Fiction Workshop with Annell Lopez.

Godless City

Spyder woke to rain chewing the tin roof and the smell of somebody else’s cigarettes. For a second he reached where Teresa used to be, fingers finding only cold sheet and a torn seam he kept promising himself he’d stitch. He lay there and listened until obligation got him upright.
His knees cracked when he swung them off the mattress. Forty-seven and already moving like a hinge in need of oil.
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