2024 Awards Eligible

Issue 89: 1st Quarter 2024

FICTION
“Moths in a Fluttering Heart” by Christine Lucas
“The Living Must Pass” by Tom Howard
“264 Days” by C.C. Graystone
“The Midnight Commuter” by Tammy Komoff

FLASH FICTION
“The Procedure” by P.A. Cornell
“Moonlight and Roses” by Jen Mierisch

POETRY
“Schrödinger’s Box” by John C. Mannone
“A World in Which the English Major Finally Understands Quantum Mechanics” by Bethany F. Brengan
“Book and Sphere” by Sara Backer
“A Golden Flame // The Beheading of a Ram” by Nnadi Samuel
“New Genesis” by David Henson
“The Siren’s Promise” by Kai Holmwood
“The one with glowing eyes” by Holly Payne-Strange
“Circular in Wonderland” by Laura Gunnells Miller
“Netting Scents” by Sultana Raza

Issue 90: 2nd Quarter 2024

FICTION
“The Frost Giants of Maine” by Jeff Reynolds
“Daring” by Victoria Zelving
“Shoes for Little Sap” by Evan A Davis
“Flash of Brilliance” by Mark Murata

FLASH FICTION
“Backstage” by Mario Milosevic
“Thirty Heartbeats” by Roxana Arama

POETRY
“Going Native” by F. J. Bergmann
“Noctalgic” by Ann K. Schwader
“But this could never be like Kansas” by M.C. Childs
“Red Destiny” by Randall Andrews“
“Martian Museum” by Yuliia Vereta
“The Folklore of Glass” by Suzanne Willis
“A Cartoon Universe” by Todd Sullivan
“Swan” by Joshua Jones Lofflin

Issue 91: 3rd Quarter 2024

FICTION
“Miyajima” by Paul Carlson
“A Bier of Bloody Roses” by Kit Harding
“The Lure of the Land” by Alexis Kaegi
“Small Step” by Larry Hodges
“A Vine Entwines Them” by Geoff Gander
“Rare Earth War” by C.R. Hodges

FLASH FICTION
“Interview #5” by Stacie Turner

POETRY
“evolution” by Mark A. Fisher
“Popular Metamorphosis” by Kenton K. Yee
“Starlight” by Jay Caselberg
“It Didn’t Fall in a Day” by Larina Warnock
“Pearls in Galactic Oysters” by John C. Mannone
“If There Are Horses Now” by Faith Allington
“An Exposure of Evolution” by Ann Thornfield-Long
“My Bone Whisperer” by Robert Frazier
“On Mars” by Kathleen S. Burgess

Issue 92: 4th Quarter 2024

FICTION
“The Right Words” by Akis Linardos
“The Dancer’s Body at Rest” by Katherine Quevedo
“Become the Part” by Jeff Ronan
“PerJurAI” by Sonny Zae
“As Foretold” by T.L. Beeding
“There Goes the Neighbourhood” by Tim Major

SPECIAL HOLIDAY STORY
“Navigating the White Elephant Exchange at the Secure Drop Site on NE 44th and Mackenzie” by R.E. Dukalsky

FLASH FICTION
“The Critique Boutique” by Robert J. Hansen

POETRY
“Marriage: The golem” by Gemma Cooper-Novack
“Porphyria’s Lover” by Anna Cates
“Mare Tranquillitatis” by Josh Pearce
“Trying Not to Turn” by Lesley Hart Gunn
“Forbidden Fruit” by Fija Callaghan
“It Happened Just Walking” by Holly Hunt
“You Rumpelstiltskin Youby Francesca Leader
“Gretel Returns to the Gingerbread House” by Gretchen Tessmer
“Naamah” by Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios

 

 

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