FLASH FICTION
Chad Haskins
Death Do Us Part
José Enrique Medina
Push
Zuri McWhorter
Bait
Ralph Pennel
Runner Up
Matt Neil Hill
Night Games
Jack Somers
Mary
Angel Filyaw
Wildflower
Linda McMullen
Gretel
Lizzie Groth
Forever
Sugar Lafever
Mother Knows Best
Grace Jenkins
Fear the Light
Memory is a Tricky Thing
This Is How It Ends
Jay Gershwin
Philosopher Sandwich
Aaron Starks
The Selfish Wraith
Charlotte Burnett
How the Story Goes
X. C. Atkins
The World
Michael Blackburn
Gothic
Ashely Adams
We Called It Extinction
Ryan Seagrist
Thumbnails
Maura Yzmore
Family Business
Justin Herrmann
Canal Side
Linda Quinlan
Carol the Cat Killer
SHORT STORY
J. J. Fletcher
Fiendish
Michael Washburn
10.12.85
Ginny Fite
Year of the Vampires
Paul Kardos
The Innocent Sink
Philip Berry
Bad Doula
Chris Erickson
Argo and the Far Side of Mars
Paul Smith
This Man is Dead
Konstantin Rega
All Must Die
Madison McLoughlin
The Beast
Sarah Jennings
Resilience
Joshua Ian
Gingerbread
Stephen Hundley
Buddy
Rod Martinez
Where Is It?
Harrison Hurst
Under Dark Eaves
Andrew Weber
Night Life
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Amanda EL
It Can Wait
Andy Betz
Ask the Right Person to Get the Right Answer
A. C. Bohleber
The Cruelty of Plaid Skirts
Brian Vlasak
Doppelgänger
Sean Hogan
Pale Things
ESSAY / SHORT CRITICISM
Jeremy Sideris
La Terreur to El Terror: The Mexican Drug War’s Place in the History of the Social Expression of Power
POETRY
Donna M. Davis
To Die with Bad Hair
Il Diavolo
Maya Roe
Near Winter’s End
John Casey
Unicorn
Leon Lowder
Politics
Linda Dove
Fear is a Bucket By the Rain Spout
Love Shot (for A)
Greg Schmult
Never-Garden
Pervert
Cough
Taylor Mali
Hidden Keys
Why My Parents Come Back to Life as Bats
Old Foundations
Childless Pantoum
Mercy
John Thomas Wetmore
Babel
Ashley Memory
Orchard #9
Anthony Lawrence
Angel Trumpet
Etymology, A Love Story
Paul Brucker
Ten Minutes and Fourteen Seconds with Edgar Allan Poe
Stephen Ground
Rejoice
Deborah Matusko
Hate’s Richness
Almost
Lies
Robert Crisp
Cold, Dark, and Handsome
Standing Naked in Front of the Train
The Organ Grinder
Offering
Missing
Caleb Scott
Evidences
The Truth
Tama Hazak
A human being isn’t but a handful of soil with spirit inside it
Josh Smith
Say You’ll Haunt Me
Jenny Was a Friend of Mine
J. B. Stone
Before You Pass Judgment on a Production of Swan Lake
When I Die Play the Sounds of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis at My Funeral
The Spirit of Joy
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