Initiation by Chidi Onyia BWR 48.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up I stand on a huge red mud ridge that snakes from the base of the ancient hills, the remnants of a mudslide that occurred in antiquity when great tectonic forces pushed the ground upwards. Later when the people...
This Is My Testimony by JinJin Xu BWR 48.1 Chapbook tes·ti·mo·ny: 1. a spoken or written statement that something is true how might a testimony dwell in silence Click here to read “This Is My Testimony” by JinJin Xu JinJin Xu is a writer &...
The House on Ilanda Street by Yvette Ndlovu BWR 48.2 Fiction Contest Winner The house disappears on a Sunday morning in April. Mama, the neighborhood gossip, is the first to notice. She wakes up with the sunrise to pin her laundry up on the clothesline. Our backyard...
The Pig Was Skinned by Tamara Panici BWR 48.2 Poetry Contest Winner There was a man on my brother’s bed. The man was in our bedroom. I did not recognize the man. The man was wearing colored robes. My sister slept next to me. She slept like a doll. She slept next to me...
Dusk by Mia Nakaji Monnier BWR 48.2 Nonfiction Contest Winner I watch the sky to see if I can pinpoint the moment when one thing turns into another. The sun sets out of view. The sky turns blue again, deepening like shades of indigo-dyed fabric, soaked progressively...
Sunday School by Jamila Osman BWR 48.2 Flash Contest Winner A semi colon is the distance between two closely related independent clauses ; d = st ; A semicolon can be replaced by a conjunction and a comma. Click here to read “Sunday School” by...