Jumaana Abdu 2025 Fiction Contest Winner Luqmān waited until Hābil was dead before he took stock of their camp. There was an eagle at the mouth of the cave with a brown snake under its claw. It...
Lydia Kim Every few days, a hair pokes up from the glossy surface of the hairline pimple she popped. It had crusted over like a manhole cover, then healed and left a slight, smooth curve. She pulls...
Jaime Gill September Well, this was a bloody stupid idea. About two months ago, you said, half-joking I think, that I should hire a therapist. “Don’t be absurd,” I said. “I’m...
Megan Eralie-Henriques Look closely at my hands. Notice how I’ve shredded the skin around my jagged nails. Look closer. See my fingernails picking at wounds, scarcely able to scab over. Bleeding,...
Erik Moyer I am born. I’m not thrilled about it. Two weeks overdue and another twenty hours of crimson labor later, I am at last evicted from the womb, a whopping ten-pounder. My mother is whisked...
J. L. Bermúdez Always at the same time, the green van with yellow letters. A man, tall and dark, hair parted like a curtain. A cigarette in his hand. I can’t recall if he is handsome, or just...
Emma Zimmerman My border collie greets the world each morning like an alien coming down to earth. What is that white stuff on the ground? What of these four-wheeled animals, grunting to life? Joni...
Brooklin Pigg My mom started dating a man named Elliot when my friend Elliot died. If I asked her for the timeline, I’m sure she would remind me that she was seeing her Elliot a few weeks or even...
LaTanya McQueen As the boy he was, a child who loved and was loved, and if only they’d seen him as this and not whatever it was they saw instead to warrant what they believed, maybe then they would...
Esther Ra 2025 Spring Contest Nonfiction Winner On the first day of Property class, we each filled out a survey describing our most valuable piece of property. Some write, My law degree. Others, My...
