SUDHA BALAGOPAL,
"The Prospective, or What I Tell the Man in the Café"
from X-R-A-Y
BRETT BIEBEL, "Midnight Shift"
from SmokeLong Quarterly
MASON BINKLEY, "Born Again"
from Bending Genres
VENITA BLACKBURN, "Smoothies"
from Split Lip
MELISSA BOWERS, "Everything Slippery and Gone"
from Atticus Review
LORI SAMBOL BRODY, "It's Time to Push"
from CRAFT
HANNAH CAJANDIG-TAYLOR, "Vivarium"
from Waxwing
VANESSA CHAN, "Tagged"
from Pidgeonholes
CHLOE N. CLARK, "Supernova"
from No Contact
EMILY COSTA, "We're All Going to Die Here"
from Rejection Letters
KATIE CURNOW, "The Aunts"
from Passages North
DEIRDRE DANKLIN, "Does Your Tattoo Mean Something?"
from Nashville Review
HEATHER DE BELL, "After Hours"
from Contrary
LEONORA DESAR, "Some Meaning—"
from The Cincinnati Review
ANN GELDER, "Things Stay with You"
from failbetter
REBECCA GONSHAK, "Hypnosis"
from The Account
ANITA GOVEAS, "Erosion"
from Lunate
