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49.2 Feature: “Ars Poetica :: Worm Music” by Poetry Contest Runner-Up David Ehmcke
Ars Poetica :: Worm Musicby David EhmckeBWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Runner-UpIt was a worm in the mind. It felt like a worm in the mind. It was a germ of music in the mind made muddy with puddles of grief. It germinated, made a music out of muddy me,...
48.2 Feature: ANTI, Chapbook by Jade Yeung
ANTIby Jade YeungBWR 48.2 Chapbook Read ANTI here In which mom asks me what I need I attempt again A series of six Cantonese tone charts that graph the pitch and time of six tones....
48.2 Feature: “Initiation” by Flash Contest runner-up Chidi Onyia
Initiationby Chidi OnyiaBWR 48.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up I stand on a huge red mud ridge that snakes from the base of the ancient hills, the remnants of a mudslide that occurred in antiquity when great tectonic forces pushed the ground upwards. Later when the people...
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...