COVER ART BY MONICA MCFAWN

NEUTRINO SHORT-SHORT PRIZE

Rebecca Swanberg: Leave Me

Sherell Barbee: You are Zero

Robyn Carter: The Game

WAASNODE SHORT FICTION PRIZE

Roland Jackson: Martial Artists

Ananda Lima: Ghost Story

SHORT-SHORTS

Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum: The Secrets of Hanlin Academy / A God of Our Own / Roof Walker

K.C. Mead-Brewer: Winter Trees / Why She Learned to Play Guitar / Bone Deep

Emilie Menzel: It Happened on a Tuesday

Jayne S. Wilson: Other Childhood Rebellions

Amina Gautier: Tears on Tap

Tucker Leighty-Phillips: Tick’s Hair House / Catfish Wishing Well / Midge woke to discover she’d become a lightning bug

Lyndsie Manusos: Generations of Leaves / A Relatively High Concentration of Salt / Cardinals

Erin Renee Noehre: At Onyx Coffee / A World I Once Wanted to Create

FICTION

K-Ming Chang: Sichuanese women / Genealogy / Mongolian spot

Alyssa Quinn: Life History of a Plastic Bag

Josh Riedel: Lunatics

Marisa Crane: Harmony

Casey Wiley: Five Percent of Sound

Janelle M. Williams: Counter Migration

Leah Newsom: Break Point 

Helen McClory: Shuffle: A Kuleshov Hanafuda

Will Ejzak: The Fetus Chest

Meagan Cass: New Love 

Vanessa Saunders: In High Plains’ Cola Hotel… / The Woman Gets Home Breathless… / In the Banquet Room of the Cola Hotel…

Emma Eun-joo Choi: The Beautiful Girl from Sanshin

POETRY

Dorothy Chan: Psychic Crush of the Week

Fiona Chamness: Daughters 

Hussain Ahmed: Assemblage of Stones for a New Colony

Margaret Wack: After We Open the Gates of the City 

Ronda Piszk Broatch: How We Ride Into the Afterlife

Lauren Loftis: Concerning Ghosts

Patrycja Humienik: cargo 

Paula Harris: The Lovely Harry and I are wedding guests… / The Lovely Harry and I go diving… / The Lovely Harry and I go on an adventure… / The Lovely Harry and I sit in a school playground… / The Lovely Harry and I run the London Marathon…

Chelsea B. DesAutels: Burial

Leah Poole Osowski: The Week After Your Return

Carolyn Orosz: Preoccupation 

Emma DePanise: Meditation in Half-Steps

William Youngblood: Suburban House Fire, with Wildebeests 

Erika Nestor: Motel Jesus 

Alexa Doran: Because Wikipedia Defines “Cave” as Natural Void

Jake Bailey: Portrait of a Storm

Lucy Wainger: Freeze Frame

Sarah Carson: The New York Times Reports Anxiety Has Been on the Rise Since the Advent of the 24-Hour News Cycle

Charlie Clark: Devil Knows You Throw a Gun into a River / Devil Lives in What You Can't Have Back

Matt Mitchell: the etymology of rust / the etymology of skylight  

Jeff Whitney: In Your Unheroic Dream 

Colleen Michaels: Whereby I am the Broken Wooden Hem Guide  

Kailey Tedesco: false mother / the mother of wrath / poltergeist

NONFICTION/HYBRID

Maggie Nye: On Horror, the Abject, and Eric Lin

Robert Stofel: The Secret Lives of Cows

Fulla Abdul-Jabbar: Nostalgia for the Light  

Amanda Yanowski: Anatomy of Teeth 

Dayna Patterson: Our Lady of Autumn / Our Lady of the Birds

Jay Aquinas Thompson: Excerpt from The Resurrection Appearances: Notes from a Grief Year

Alex Checkovich: Eyes Cream

Elizabeth Brinsfield: Wilderness

Jenee Skinner: Enlightenment