Volume 19, Issue 4
-1000 Below: Flash Prose and Poetry Contest
Judged by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh
Winners
1st Place: Grooves, by Jay McKenzie
2nd Place: Beak, by Meggie Royer
3rd Place: How to Avoid or Survive a Crocodile Attack, by Koss
Honorable Mention: Mushroom Hunting: A Villanelle for the End of the World, by Emma Kaiser
Ephemera
Fiction
Tunnel Woman, by Aimee Parkison
Facts about Shapeshifters, by Kathryn Reese and Sumitra Singam
Fay Cooks, by Angela Townsend
Climbing Trees with Dinosaurs, by Tara Van De Mark
Last Migration, by Dana Wall
Nonfiction
Berlin in March, by Azure Brandi
Finding Ground, by Laura Childs Gill
The Sum of Us: An Elegy, by Sharon Goldberg
Hey Diddle Diddle, by Jacqueline Kolosov
Berkshire Manor, by Mary Lynn Reed
Poetry
Florida, by Ani Bachan
The Multitudes, by Julie Benesh
Invisible Weaver, by Denise Bergman
Subatomic, by Sara Burge
Scorpions are Bad for Your Health, by Peter Burzyński
Balancing Act, by Crystal Cox
Kaleidoscope, by Crystal Cox
Sagebrush, by Crystal Cox
Field Poems from Mars on Earth, by Duana Fullwiley
Holes, by Kimberly Gibson-Tran
Holes in the Pines as Passage, by Kimberly Gibson-Tran
A Crow’s-Eye View, by Ken Holland
Mouse, After Traveling, by Jen Karetnick
Rhizome Bombs, by Jen Karetnick
Moon Dogs, by Ashleigh Kennedy
Wild Kingdom, by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer
Forces, by Sam Liming
Unincorporated, by Sam Monroe Olson
Ranger, by Sam Monroe Olson
Landlord, by Shane Murphy
Two Foxes, by Zach Powers
Suddenly, by Purbasha Roy
Ryan tells me a taillight is out, by Kashawn Taylor
The Thing about Re-Entry, by Kashawn Taylor
I Was Raised by an Octopus, by jms xuange
Untouching, by jms xuange
Night Passions, by Kenton K. Yee
The Raft of Sixty-Six Sticks, by Kenton K. Yee
Slipway, by Allison Zhang
Thank you Shahé for making me cry, by Aida Zilelian