40th Anniversary Feature: A SUGGESTION FOR DEPARTING
BY AMBER VOGEL The passengers gather. The conductor smokes The last of his cigarette, leans from the door, And flicks the end away. Your steps Quicken. You are clutching your ticket And your magazine. You stop. You wheel Round, panicked by yet another Vagrant...
9th Annual Contest Results!
BWR is pleased to announce the winners of our 9th Annual Contest in Prose, Poetry, and Nonfiction. Each winner will receive $1000.00 prize and publication in issue 40.2 of BWR (forthcoming this spring). Mari Christmas was selected as the fiction winner for her story,...
40th Anniversary Feature: THE HORSE ON THE POND
by JIM HILGARTNER BWR Genre Editor, Fiction, 1996-1997 Cutting cordwood on the ridge Where the wind sweeps snow From fallen leaves and bracken, I paused, and stood holding the saw. Blue mountains shone Distant in the blue air. And at my feet an old plow horse,...