We’re excited to honor these stories by including them on our shortlist for this contest. Congrats to the writers who have made it this far in the contest! Your piece has been handed over to our Guest Judge, Maurice Carlos Ruffin!
- Dead Things I Gave Birth To
- A Short Love Story
- Humoresque
- The Anti-Anti Natalists
- Envelopes
- Call Me Daddy
- My brother dead in the Heaven Department
- Snow
- No Promises
- Thursday
- In the Path of Totality
- Reel
- White Trash
- The Hunt
- Maybe It Comes Like This
- The Indigo Dyer
- One Minute Thirty-Five Seconds
- The Uranium Bird
- Brittle Stars
- The Touch Forecast
- Good Neighbors
- Heartbeat
- Sugar Highs & Lows
- Sixty, Fifty-Nine, Fifty-Eight
- Pulse
- Gizzard
- Blood-Related
- Lines Left
- Bramble
- My Woman
- Adrift