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,...
Third by Katherine Yeejin Hur BWR 47.2 Nonfiction Contest winner I. Allegro ma non tanto I have always seen things in threes. 27 is my number, and though I don’t know if it is lucky, I know that it is mine. Three to the power of three. I am in my third year of college...
