River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative has long been a home for writers who treat the factual world with the care and craft of a novelist. Its weekly online companion, Beautiful Things, extends that mandate into the smallest possible frame: a single, luminous moment of nonfiction, no more than 250 words. The constraint is not incidental. It demands that a writer locate the precise detail, the turn of phrase, the small narrative arc that justifies a reader's attention without the scaffolding of a longer essay. The journal's editorial sensibility favors clarity, emotional precision, and a resistance to sentimentality—qualities that have defined River Teeth's print pages for over two decades. The call is explicitly inclusive. Beautiful Things encourages submissions from underrepresented writers, naming BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and disabled writers among those it seeks to publish, and it welcomes incarcerated writers to submit by mail. This is not a diversity statement bolted onto a submission page; it reflects an editorial commitment to the range of American nonfiction. The journal does not accept work created with generative AI, a policy that underscores its investment in the singular, human voice. Writers retain first North American serial rights, and publication is compensated with a one-year subscription to River Teeth—a modest but meaningful gesture of literary citizenship. The reading period runs September 1 through December 1 and January 1 through April 1. Submissions are capped at one beautiful thing at a time, with a $3 fee per entry. Response times typically fall between three and six months. For writers accustomed to the glacial pace of literary journals, that window is neither unusually long nor unusually short; it is the cost of a careful read. The journal's weekly publication schedule means that accepted pieces find a readership quickly, delivered each Monday to subscribers' inboxes—a rhythm that rewards work capable of standing alone, without context or apology.