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

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August 31, 2019

I’m Not Interested

By Emily Spencer

Gold Circles Third phalanges Bernini’s Baroque Canopy in St. Peter’s Gold Circles The aftermath of sun On the eye Lid shut To an exposed window Her blue eye always opens […]

August 31, 2019

On Closed Systems

By Jillian Weise

I write to figure out closed systems since the doc says I’m becoming one and I can’t find Colleen online tonight. Can’t tell where I end and I machine tonight. […]

August 31, 2019

Gawker Slowdown

By Roy White

A gawker slowdown is what it all comes down to, each of us longing for eyewitness evidence that the form slumped in the crumpled car is not wearing our clothes. […]