[1st Place] I’m pulling plump radishes by each sprouted head when my sister births my nephew, ivory crusted with blood. My swollen red bellies aborted from the soil leave…
[2nd Place] “Pigs experience hope, which we know because if raised in decent conditions they anticipate that pleasurable things will happen to them.” -Barbara J. King, NPR.org Header…
[3rd Place] Sugar pine, Jeffrey pine, mottled bark with scent of vanilla and butterscotch, candy my grandfather ate. Monarchs will only eat milkweed, little blues only buckwheat or lupine.…
[Shortlist] “NASA is giving silent Mars rover one last opportunity to respond before declaring it dead after 15 years.” – @APHealthScience You were never built to last, they…
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[Shortlist] The house is tucked in. Lights off, doors locked, curtains sealed, shoes subdued. I’m in bed reading Coetzee who, as my sister says, always leaves you suicidal. Hazel’s…
[Shortlist] Dad says, The Jets are the underdog. He & my three brothers form a defensive line in front of the black & white television set. I am nine,…
& one god damned taco will cost fourteen dollars & sometimes it’ll be worth it but tonight it will not so you’ll drink your hunger instead & at…
