Year: 2017

Shasta Grant Julie and I spent the summer of 1989 in her basement watching soap operas while her mother was

Danielle LaVaque-Manty The garden was already there when Fern moved in, small but splendid, perhaps even too perfectly cultivated by

Samantha Edmonds     This is what she remembers: • pain • disbelief • that she’d read somewhere it only

W. Todd Kaneko When I return home from the war that summer, they’re looking for the Diamond. I know this

Adriane Hanson Christian looks into Jenny’s eyes, green like creeping vines. No one can hold his gaze like she can.

Ashley Moore At first, they’ll stick to my lip gloss: clouds and clouds of them. Bike paths will become impossible.

Allison Pinkerton When Ashby’s older brother came to live with her again after being kicked out of the army, we