A Brief Excerpt from “The Spa”

Jenny Xie I learn about Dustin’s death through Facebook. I am at work, taking a lunch of grilled chicken and broccolini at my desk, a diet prescribed by my pregnant Trisha, who now insists that I...

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A Brief Excerpt from “Gloria”

Gail Griffin 1. Some memories seem to rise on their own from nowhere, faces slowly appearing in deep water. This is how Gloria came back. One day in my middle age, I remembered that I had had a...

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2015 Pushcart Nominations

Fiction Nominees Christian Winn, “The Landline” “The Landline” is a short story about a mother and son told through a series of quick moments from the narrator’s life. The reader is...

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2016 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest

Judge: Jericho Brown DEADLINE: April 9th! PRIZE: $500 and publication in Phoebe 45.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $10 SUBMISSION SIZE: 3 to 5 poems per submission, totaling no more than 10 pages....

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2016 Fiction Contest

Judge: Joshua Ferris DEADLINE: April 9th! PRIZE: $500 and publication in Phoebe 45.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $10 SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words. Joshua Ferris is...

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2016 Nonfiction Contest

Judge: Harrison Scott Key DEADLINE: April 9th! PRIZE: $500 and publication in Phoebe 45.2 (online issue) ENTRY FEE: $10 SUBMISSION SIZE: 1 piece per submission, up to 5,000 words. Harrison...

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It Would Be Life—

Joshua Ferris After a long silence—during which we pulled our troops from Vietnam, the dreary events of September 11th precipitated the collapse of Iran, and the Quixotic landed safely upon the red...

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the bad reading snow or, we could get together and swing only

Lyn Lifshin you don’t seem to care about what i’m giving next thing i’m doing a strip tease we’re in the snow together but your icy cock, what are we doing here jesus i can’t even look in...

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Issue 44.2 – Spring 2015

2015 Contest Winners Greg Grummer Poetry Award Winner Konstantin Kulakov, “Keats by Glenmont Metro” Judge Brian Teare’s Comments i admire this poem for the ways it inhabits space....

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Returning

Harry Newman   Denver, NY for that first year she told me she could only paint with black broad strokes more like sketching she saw only in outline an empty world of edges white showing through...

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