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48.1 Feature: This Is My Testimony, Chapbook by JinJin Xu
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 & filmmaker from...
48.2 Feature: “The House on Ilanda Street” by Fiction Contest winner Yvette Ndlovu
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...
48.2 Feature: “The Pig Was Skinned” by Poetry Contest winner Tamara Panici
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...
48.2 Feature: “Dusk” by Nonfiction Contest winner Mia Nakaji Monnier
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...
48.2 Feature: “Sunday School” by Flash Contest Winner Jamila Osman
Sunday Schoolby Jamila OsmanBWR 48.2 Flash Contest WinnerA 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...
48.2 Feature: “Dream with Many Mounds of Grass” by Poetry Contest runner-up Hua Xi
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...
48.2 Feature: “How It Tastes” by Fiction Contest runner-up Star Su
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...
48.2 Feature: “Love and Affection” by Nonfiction Contest runner-up Endria Richardson
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...
48.1 Sneak Peek: “Here” by Georgie Fehringer
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. ...
47.2 Feature: “Walang Himala” by Flash Contest runner-up Kiley McLaughlin
Walang Himalaby Kiley McLaughlinBWR 47.2 Flash Contest runner-upIn 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...