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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."

Mariah Thompson

"I don’t remember. / Travis or Kevin picked up a rock and there it was, dark / and poised for the striking. Fascination spilled / into pooled horror. I ran."

Joanna Acevedo

"Suddenly, having a baby doesn’t seem so impossible. She has a baby now. She could just hold onto this one, and everything would be alright."

Maia McPherson

"She is hungry / her son is hungry her husband / is hungry so they sit at the table / and blink at each other / over quick-boiled pasta / and jar sauce."

Travis Hoyles

"We'd drive all day in dad's Dodge Shadow, / dodging shadows that the road spat forth at dusk;"

Travis Stephens

"In our forever mix tape Melissa / shouts, Rhiannon croons and / even Bonnie growls a bit, the / velvet of their voices bourbon / straight."

Erika Gallion

"Hyrule didn’t necessarily feel safe to me as a child. It was dangerous and sometimes scary. But it did feel like home, in the way that home sometimes felt like a puzzle to complete."

Terry Wijesuriya

"She grumbled to herself but went anyway. The cool water felt good in the heat of the afternoon, and she put on a frock. She couldn’t reach around to tie the ribbons in a nice bow so she left them dangling until her mother would notice and scold her."

Naomi Dean

"The pantheon of life guards keeps tabs, / Banana Boat haze drifting down to mingle / with band-aids & chlorine, mildew & promise."