DOUG O'CONNOR, "Understanding the Family Language"
from Paper Darts
ALI RACHEL PEARL, "The Town of Milkcarton Kids"
from Redivider
JUSTIN REED, "Icarus Is a Black Man"
from Gone Lawn
WILLIAM REICHARD, "New Hampshire Girl, 11, Vanishes"
from The Conium Review
KATHLEEN ROONEY, "Le Retour de Flamme"
from Necessary Fiction
GLENN SHAHEEN, "Historical Society"
from The Collagist
ERIC SHATTUCK, "The Ghosts You Meet in Maricopa"
from The Molotov Cocktail
RICHARD SIKEN, "The Field of Rooms and Halls"
from Gulf Coast
SJ SINDU, "I Like to Imagine Daisy from Mrs. Dalloway as an Indian Woman"
from apt
REBEKA SINGER, "Cracked Open Letter"
from Dogzplot
LAURIE STONE, "Window"
from The Collagist
CATHY ULRICH, "When the Children Return"
from Jellyfish Review
KARA VERNOR, "The Sex Ed Lady"
from Green Mountains Review
RAVI VENKATARAMAN, "The Electrician"
from Literary Orphans
CHELSEA LAINE WELLS, "She Knows"
from Corium Magazine
BESS WINTER, "Machines of Another Era"
from Story