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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...
47.2 Feature: “Alas Poor Fhoul” by Nonfiction Contest runner-up Gyasi Hall
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,...
47.2 Feature: “Third” by Nonfiction Contest winner Katherine Yeejin Hur
Thirdby Katherine Yeejin HurBWR 47.2 Nonfiction Contest winnerI. 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...