Dream with Many Mounds of Grass by Hua Xi BWR 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 Tastes by Star Su BWR 48.2 Fiction Contest Runner-Up All 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...
Love and Affection by Endria Richardson BWR 48.2 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up I 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...
Walang Himala by Kiley McLaughlin BWR 47.2 Flash Contest runner-up In Agoo, La Union, Luzon, Philippines, Judiel Nieva was the seventh- born, a son who became or who was, all along, a daughter. It was ruled that Judiel had a statue of the Birhen run through with thin...
Alas Poor Fhoul by Gyasi Hall BWR 47.2 Nonfiction Contest runner-up I. BEFORE Two summers ago, Otterbein University, my undergrad, gave me five hundred dollars to travel to Alabama to visit the Richard Hail Research Center for African American Studies. Toni Morrison,...
