The House on Ilanda Streetby Yvette NdlovuBWR 48.2 Fiction Contest WinnerThe 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 is a...

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...

Duskby Mia Nakaji MonnierBWR 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 Schoolby Jamila OsmanBWR 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 Jamila Osman   An...

Dream with Many Mounds of Grassby Hua XiBWR 48.2 Poetry Contest Runner-Up In my childhood, a housemade entirely of grass. That was where the people learned to go on. I have a memory of my aunt in the doorway, arms full of grass. Filling a water jug full of...

How It Tastesby Star SuBWR 48.2 Fiction Contest Runner-UpAll my life Mama wanted to make me brave. As a baby, I would cry murder if she dipped my toes in water or left me naked longer than a second. She didn’t bathe me for the first two months of my life—probably the...

Love and Affectionby Endria RichardsonBWR 48.2 Nonfiction Contest Runner-UpI want a tattoo of Joan Armatrading, an outline of her face as it is on the cover of Joan Armatrading, the self-titled album she released in 1976. Her face is embraced by dark shadow, the...

Hereby Georgie Fehringer This is Hello Again, we never claimed any of this was true                                                                                   or even that it was the point or the intended outcome.                                               ...