Volume 13, Issue 4

-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest

Judged by C. Dale Young

Winners

1st Place: The Baby, by Margie Sarsfield

2nd Place: Convertible, by Sarah Neilson

3rd Place: Desert Wash Walking, by Bill Pruitt

Ephemera

Riley Hynes (slideshow), by Riley Hynes

Jean Wolf (slideshow), by Jean Wolf

Fiction

Older Again, by Genevieve Abravanel

/ when i was 16 i was afraid that i had enlisted in the army and i just couldn’t remember /, by Annie Blake

The Palace of Wings, by Dan. A Cardoza

The Divers at Donner Pool Free Swim, by Patrick Nevins

Nonfiction

Coronach, by Lucinda Kempe

Solstice*, by Lucinda Kempe

Fawn, by Lucinda Kempe

Poetry

from Exquisite Damage: A Midwest Gothic, by Kristy Bowen

Dormido [Asleep], by Joanna B. Johnson

Learning to Sleep the Siesta, by Joanna B. Johnson

The Destroyer Brings in Donuts to the Office to Make Himself Feel Better, by Martin Ott

Robot Ignores Asimov’s Third Law and Runs into Toddler in Mall, by Martin Ott