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Roy Bentley

"if you're wondering, I come down on the side of loving him/bastard that he could be"

Lizette Roman-Johnston

"The early evening glow surrounds my silhouette like a halo, and the flash of denim and pink grows smaller and smaller as I leave them in the dust and they watch me use my big, long legs to pump my way into the sunset."

Judith Skillman

"Days and nights, moon and sun/storm and drought—all these happen/to the body as well"

Katie Humphries

"She paddled backwards some more, making space, hoping the gator would not notice, but its mossy, knobby skull and snout were now fully above the water. They looked at each other once more."

Stephen Newton

"I looked down into the black void beneath the bridge, and for a giddy moment, I felt weightless, like when a car goes too fast over a hill. My mother put me down, pulled my knitted cap snug over my ears, and asked, 'Can you find your way home?'"

Lance Dornan

"I’d never considered myself a sailor before that night, when I slipped out from river into sea."

Lance Dornan

"The meat on my plate is rare and bloody. My fork works its way into my thigh."

Sandra Kolankiewicz

"I understand about your silence/now, how you craved quiet when your empire collapsed"

Sandra Kolankiewicz

"You are grateful for my note, you say, and the/photograph of my mother the year you met her"

Karine Leno Ancellin

"Demeter was clearing the weed when Persephone/erred beyond the horizon."