Zary Fekete

"My wife is fearless and, even though her Hungarian isn’t perfect, she will talk with anyone. I think it was this willingness which won her over to our neighbor who had initially seemed standoffish and confused as to why this American couple and their cat were in Hungary."

Natalia Batiz-Blanco

"It’s so loud. / There are no stop signs to cross the street so you run. / Thank you to the driver in the Mitsubishi who let us cross. / Almost there."

Rebecca Thrush

"It’s funny to think we wanted / to be bright enough to sparkle / on stage, in a sea of Irish / twins, all of us vying for stardom / and wallflower glory"

Anastasia Jill

"One place in particular - Marie Byrd Land - caught her attention, and not because of its namesake. It had been discovered and given a misnomer in honor of a man’s wife, but at the heart, it was uncharted, virgin terrain still unmarked by subjugation or greedy men.."

William Falo

"He was probably a porch pirate. A loser. Alone. I stopped the truck. Was I so different? I was stuck in neutral. Broken."