Katie Willingham 1. BBC News, March 5th: Scientists publish the most detailed brain scans ever taken. Images of the first sixty-eight subjects take up about two terabytes of computer memory, enough...
Christian A. Winn Yesterday the boy I pretend is David phoned. “Hi, Mom,” he said. “Happy birthday.” It was not my birthday, and I told him so, as I always do. “I miss you...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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