SARAH PREVATT, "The Arrowhead"
from Necessary Fiction
TIMMY REED, "Birds and Other Things We Placed in Our Hearts"
from Necessary Fiction
CHRIS J. RICE, "The Lid"
from PANK
SARA SEYFARTH, "Anna Maria's Guide to Resurrection"
from Paper Darts
AKI SHILZ, "Heat Wave"
from Cheap Pop Lit
REBEKA SINGER, "Our New Place"
from Dogzplot
CLAUDIA SMITH, "Cane Pole"
from SmokeLong Quarterly
RHOADS STEVENS, "All the Corazons in Spanish Songs"
from Spork
PABLO PIÑERO STILLMAN, "Tracking the War"
from BULL
MAY-LAN TAN, "Strawberries"
from Spork
MIKA TAYLOR, "Brick by Brick"
from Tin House
BETH THOMAS, "Before Dubai, This Ellay"
from Contrary
DEB OLIN UNFERTH, "Dying"
from Gigantic
DEEPAK UNNIKRISHNAN, "Gulf Return"
from Guernica
MARY WHARFF, "Nothing to You"
from NAILED
KIK WILLIAMS, "Stands of Pines"
from Dogzplot
xTx, "Today I Am a Summer Field"
from Camroc Press Review