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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...
47.2 Feature: “Vanitus Vanitatum” by Poetry Contest runner-up torrin a. greathouse
Vanitas Vanitatum by torrin a. greathouse BWR 47.2 Poetry Contest runner-up “The politics of cum are also its aesthetics” —Bradley Trumpfheller I was called a pansy before I was ever called a faggot. Flower-child. Wilted wrist. The Bradford Pear [pyrus...
47.2 Feature: “flashback” by Poetry Contest winner Jody Chan
flashbackby Jody ChanBWR 47.2 Poetry Contest winnerhome. clouded recollections, neighbours silent as a blown fuse. houses in a blank-eyed row. I’m always six when I lie here, inhaling dust from a time I can’t remember. dad smoking downstairs, the scent of rice sharp...
47.2 Feature: “The Visit” by Fiction Contest runner up Jennifer Cie
The Visitby Jennifer CieBWR 47.2 Fiction Contest ruuner-upSoft snores and the glare of headlights from across the margin buoyed the sound of waves sloshing along the plastic walls of the canisters in the trunk. We left Brooklyn at four-thirty in the afternoon. Hand...
47.2 Feature: “Community” by Fiction Contest winner Rachel Julia Engler
Community by Rachel Julia Engler BWR 47.2 Fiction Contest winner When I first moved there, I got involved with a group of trepanners. If you felt any stress, any sadness, you’d get to drilling. Let some air in, and out. It was a bloody business. Eventually, I drifted...
47.2 Feature: “Such Great Height and Consequence” by Kelsey Norris
Such Great Height and Consequenceby Kelsey Norrisfrom BWR 47.2To be clear, the statue came down for its own protection. Not because the lawmakers and politicians and folks at city hall finally grew themselves a conscience. Not because they wanted a new chapter...