Volume 18, Issue 4

-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest

Judged by Jose Hernandez Diaz

Winners

1st Place: Assumption, by Marian Urquilla

2nd Place: Road Runner, by Barbara Westwood Diehl

3rd Place: How a Story Unfolds, by Jackson Mills Smith

Honorable Mention: House in the Desert, by Allison Field Bell

Ephemera

JC Alfier (a slideshow)

Interview with Mona Susan Power about A Council of Dolls (Mariner, 2023), winner of the Minnesota Book Award in Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, by Mona Susan Power and Paige Riehl

Fiction

Astronomer, by Lucile Barker

Straighten Up, by Lisa Lebduska

The Midway, by Katie Dickson

The Old Shillelagh, by Parker Wilson

Nonfiction

Big Bug Picture, by Jace Brittain

Good Mourning, America, by Marie Lambert 

Numbered, by Kim Wright

Poetry

Earth from Apollo 17, by Oreste Belletto

Des Moines City Council, Summer 2020, by Jenkin Benson

Career Advice, by Noah Berlatsky

Theft is Property, by Noah Berlatsky

Heat from the Stove, by Kaylaun Bonni

Crossed-Letter: Devil, by Kendra Boyd

Night Chant from Planet Earth, by Jess Cook

Softly We Sit, by Sadie C.

Things I Say to My Dead Ancestors Before Falling Asleep, by Dante Di Stefano

Summer Annual, by Isabella Piedad Escamilla

The Kind of Morning, by Lydia Falls

Psychogeography, by mk Francisco 

Quantum Mechanics, by Diane Glancy

cancer poem #1, by Ed Go

cancer poem #2, by Ed Go

Where Things Gather, by Sophie Grimes

When Out Hunting, by Summer Hardinge

The Train, by Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey

to turn back to the world, by Mukethe Kawinzi

OF MICE AND LIGHT POLLUTION, by Stefanie Lee

Dear Reader, by Alex Niemi

Field Notes: Worcester County, August, by Carolyn Oliver

Field Notes: Worcester County, July (II), by Carolyn Oliver

Mottephobia Hollywood, by Hanna Pachman

Interference Patterns, by Donald Pepka

I Miss the Feeling of Pulling My Own Teeth, by Zeke Shomler 

The Skin is Soft, it Yields, by Zeke Shomler

Holding Pattern, by Kelly Terwilliger

Sleepskin, by Kelly Terwilliger

After the Abortion, by William Waters