ADDY MAHAFFEY, "Dear Girl, Dear God"
from Crab Fat Magazine
LEE MATALONE, "Loved Things"
from Sundog Lit
BUZZ MAURO, "Nine Goodbyes"
from The New Orleans Review
SHANNON MCLEOD, "Tandem"
from HAD
ROSE MCMACKIN, "Raw Bar"
from MoonPark Review
CHRISTOPHER NOTARNICOLA, "In Ram Corpse"
from Hobart
AMIE SOUZA REILLY, "Whale Fall"
from The Cabinet of Heed
C.C. RUSSELL, "Center and Second"
from MoonPark Review
SADIA QURAESHI SHEPARD, "Monsters"
from The Margins (AAWW)
AMY STUBER, "Tits"
from Pithead Chapel
KAJ TANAKA, "Watch My Contact"
from Hobart
ELIZABETH TURNER, "Horsemouth and Aquariumhead"
from Lost Balloon
EMILY WEBER, "There Aren't Many Predators in the Aquarium"
from The Cincinnati Review
TARA STILLIONS WHITEHEAD, "Seven Bodies I Didn't Leave Behind"
from HAD
JO WITHERS, "The Cognitive Behaviorial Therapist Wants a Divorce But Does Not Want to be the One to Ask"
from X-R-A-Y
STEPHANIE YU, "Come and See"
from Eclectica
HANANAH ZAHEER, "Lovebird"
from Pithead Chapel