We love how writers interpret and are inspired by this theme and prompt each year! It helps us see our own world through a new lens, and these stories always resonate! Here are the 40 longlisted titles for your review! We’ll be back next week with our shortlist, which will be read and judged by Jemimah Wei!
- Rubik’s Cube and the Taste of Guilt
- Collective Memory
- Borrowed Time
- In the Temple of the Ugly Women
- Engagement
- The Bookstore at Memory’s End
- House of the Minotaur
- The Other Sister
- aiteal
- This Did Not Matter
- Seven
- All The Fake Smiles
- The Conquest Bride
- Collateral Damage
- To Float
- Odd Biography
- Rock Dove
- Blood
- Rewilding
- Blood Feathers
- Dead Davids
- Waiting for Soup
- Shattered
- Overage
- Vertebrae
- Feathers
- The Last Eden
- Snip, Snip, Snip
- Hypongogia
- The Map with No Roads
- Selection
- Apoptosis
- Photorealistic Hello Kitty
- Moving In
- Consort
- Forget-Me-Nots in the Bell Tower
- Milagro
- Worlds Apart
- String Theory
- Problems of Inheritance Law in Fig Country, Chapter 117