Volume 17, Issue 4
-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest
Judged by Jennifer Tseng
Winners
1st place: A Story You Know, by Allison Field Bell
2nd place: The Most Historic State, by Alex Brostoff
3rd place: Of Feast and Family and Famine or Eulogy for my Grandfather, Redacted, by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Honorable Mention: Denial Dances on a Moonless Street in the Arms of Blame, by Karan Kapoor
Fiction
The Wedding Photo, by Megan Cantana
The Broken Clock, by Claire Polders and Lynn Mundell
A Dog Story Doggedly Told, by Philip Raisor
When Cicadas Stop Chirping, by Huina Zheng
Nonfiction
Body Count, by Michael Rogner
morphemic segment as synovial joint, by Liam Strong
An Unnecessary Woman, by Suzanne Verrall
Poetry
Leisure Time, by Charles Byrne
From Ashes, by Carolina Cabada
Bachelard and the Artist Interrupt Each Other, by Charlotte Friedman
Talking Soutine, by Charlotte Friedman
I sift crumbs in sheets, by Robyn Groth
KÜCHENIDYLLE, OR—A STRIP OF FISH IS JOY, by Robyn Groth
Power Lines, by Tresha Faye Haefner
Back in Iowa, Looking Out the Window at Rebekah’s Parents’ House, by John Hansen
Creek Hiking, by Andrew Hanson
Riddle, by Andrew Hanson
This poem is a door, by Peter Grandbois
Coal mining as loss-chasing, by Trevor Moffa
Coin Shortage, by Trevor Moffa
Pageant of Glass, by Peter O’Donovan
full landscape with no exit, by Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
The Story That Needs You, by Ivy Raff
My mother spins the compost, by Esther Sadoff
Retirement Plans, by Noel Sloboda
Lily, by Matthew Isaac Sobin
The Girl Who Felt Colors, by Skaidrite Stelzer
Externality, by James T. Stemmle
Holy Matrimony, by Nam Hoang Tran
The Heroine in Bronze, by Nam Hoang Tran
24, by Molly Walsh
aubade, by Lillo Way