Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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April 7, 2023

Pareidolia

By Kira Homsher

2022 Short Fiction Contest Runner-up The sky is injured, sliced with red. The power lines whisper rain. Evening clouds form wispy m’s overhead, like a child’s drawing of birds. There […]

April 6, 2023

Doe

By Alexandra Munck

2022 Short Fiction Contest Runner-up This has happened to me five or six times: I pull up the garage door and find a doe. She is hanging upside down, her […]

April 4, 2023

Siphonophore

By M. W. Brooke

2022 Short Fiction Contest Winner Molly wanted to go to Galveston for her birthday. I balked when she told me, mystified by the thought of celebrating her sweet sixteen in […]