50.2 Feature: “Forks of Buffalo” by 2023 Fiction Contest Winner, Ron MacLean Ron MacLean is the author of the story collections We Might as Well Light Something On Fire and Why the Long Face? and the novels Blue Winnetka Skies and Headlong, winner of the...
Annual Report; or, The Achievements of the Junior Colleague by Corey Van Landingham BWR 49.2 Poetry Contest Winner I restored the Capitol and the theatre of Pompey, both works at great expense without inscribing my own name on either. [….] I am pontifex maximus,...
from River of Love by Kami Enzie BWR 49.2 Flash Contest Runner-Up Like a morgue of oranges inside the lower crisper laid. Loose rinds bruised, and if not torn, still their battered segments will again never repaired be, not really. Waxy bodies deep welled yet near...
Occipital by Engram Wilkinson BWR 49.2 Flash Contest Winner He sat, experiencing the familiar itch in his brain along the edge of a lobe whose name he could never remember. A body is a simple disappointment. He used it to look at his co-workers, who looked at each...
Mother Road by Lauren Hohle BWR 49.2 Fiction Contest Runner-Up Before she was my mother, my mother performed in a hallelujah band on an Alaskan cruise ship. She sang “Shine, Jesus Shine” and shook a tambourine and strummed a pock-marked Sears catalog guitar for three...
