T Categories Poetry Stephanie Brooks The Night Before My Father Buries His Father I wanted my handfuls / to rain down as far as his.
S Categories Poetry Emily Kingery Scarecrow I stumbled down roads // linked arm-in-arm with / friendless, pining men
D Categories 2021 Contest Winner Poetry Shagufta Mulla Daughter Mined With Mercury I remember playing // with loose beads of mercury.
t Categories Poetry Victoria Stitt the last time I may know you I say the ghosts have gone // quiet, bleached blue.
T Categories Fiction Jared Billings The Year of the Dog Baldonado won the mayoral election of 1968 in a landslide of 521,101 votes to 46,799 votes.
T Categories Fiction George Choundas The Thing About Pansyncrasy—Okay, Fine, Many Things Let us call him Denby.
F Categories Fiction Paul Haney First Mate I thought I’d never see him again, not after he’d left Boston and moved back to London.
F Categories Fiction Keith Lesmeister Fire Drill The one incentive I had for tracking down an apartment any sooner was so my son and daughter could finally see me in a home of my own.
G Categories Fiction Lauren Schenkman Genesis, Revised When the Lord God saw that the man and the woman had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, he made garments of skins for them and clothed them.
S Categories 2021 Contest Winner Fiction Michele Zimmerman Step-Beast When I am eight years old, the beast arrives in a box from overseas.