Cover Art by Joseph Self
WAASNODE FICTION PRIZE
Nancy Nguyen: Breach
Colton Huelle: The Rub
Annie Vitalsey: The Abduction
NEUTRINO SHORT-SHORT PRIZE
May-lee Chai 翟梅莉: Things That Cannot be Compared: Exile and Diaspora
Noémi Scheiring-Oláh: If I Were My Sister
J. Wheeler: Karmic Chalk
SHORT-SHORTS
Steve Gergley: Summer Work / An Unpleasant Rain / New Pants
Guion Pratt: The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
Daniel Joseph: but those people should have been taking pictures
Ciara Alfaro: A Good Spot
Tara Isabel Zambrano: Cake
Michael Don: Dads in Shorts
Will Musgrove: Knocks at the Door
Sharon Wahl: Breakfast
Jenny Hu: Girlhood
[sarah] Cavar: in a dream | m | asks if i believe in mercy
Brigid Swanick: I Dreamed You Were a Giant Crab and Feared You Might Consume Me
J. L. Bermúdez: Mausoleo
Samuel Jensen: Oppenheimer’s Mother
Erika Walsh: Prayer in Which Everything Happens
Allison Field Bell: Horse Girl / Teacup Rose
Mirri Glasson-Darling: The Hole
Kami Enzie: The Whole of the World / from River of Love
Lauren E. Osborn: Sacred / Immaculate Conceptions / What We Wish For
Sarah Gorham: The sliding doors of the fog
Joel Hans: Sapling by Shingle by Soot
Julia Melfi: Something about champagne
FICTION
Michael Lenart: Coconut Peach Fuzz
Kieran Mundy: The Getaway
Areej Quraishi: The Fisherman and His Ningyo
Leigh Shadko: Newcomers
Nafisa A. Iqbal: The Vegetarian
Jason Baltazar: Captain Carnivore’s Phantasmagorical Hydrochloric Fork
Marc Merrill Gumbin: Signs of Life
Jean-Luc Bouchard: Turn Your Back to the Sun
POETRY
Letitia Jiju: Self-Portrait with Entangled Photon I
Alejandro Lucero: What holds the light
Hannah Silverstein: Negative Psychology 2
Megan Denton: My Pet Bulldozer
d.S. randoL: nude honest / enough!!!!
David Greenspan: Glitch, Michigan
John Miguel Shakespear: i, Naturalist
Kenton K. Yee: Calling Home / Sunflower Tea
Chiagoziem Jideofor: mythmaking
Cameron Dean Gibson: Every Day is a Good Day to Floss
Lauren Hilger: Cat daddy
Tyler Michael Jacobs: Still Life
Gill Smith: excerpts from 388 #4 / #5
Matthew Tuckner: Jack Rabbit
Lara Egger: The Tao of Instinct
grace (ge) gilbert: poem 2 / poem 3 / poem # 4 5
Carolene Kurien: Abhi Na Jao Chhod Kar
Temperance Aghamohammadi: The Medium
Jasmine Khaliq: Ammi Tends to the Garden, Alone / False Spring
Patricia Mona Eng: room
Timothy Michalik: Now I Am Sitting
Gustav Parker Hibbett: Saturn
Eros Livieratos: Driving
Joan Kwon Glass: Going Home
Maria Zoccola: evening service
NONFICTION/HYBRID
Nancy Huggett: Almanac of Sorrows
Mike Nagel: Greetings from the City of Excellence!
Piper Gourley: Come Out as Gold
Acie Clark: Milk Glass
Mathew Weitman: Concerning the Language of Dreams
Lena Crown: Help But Wonder
Sara Mae: -issimos
Jordan Walker: First Born
Lewis Millholland: Grids