COVER
Moustache | Annie Terrazzo
FICTION
Just About | OLIVIA CIACCI
Small Fiery Bloom | ROSS MCMEEKIN
I Am Not Who I Am | EURYDICE
GERTRUDE STEIN AWARD IN FICTION
1ST PLACE | A Song Died, ANDREW MCLINDEN
2ND PLACE | Insecticide, RACHEL HERMANS GOLDMAN
3RD PLACE | Song of the Amputee’s Mother | SHANEE STEPAKOFF
REGENDERED
A Diverse Flora of Native and Introduced Species, Beautifully Adapted to Their Microenvironment | DON HUCKS
Bomb Squad | JASON OLSEN
Her Husband Leaves Her | STEPHEN DIXON
Korean Bathhouse | JULIA KOLCHINSKY DASBACH
The Nonsense Singers of the Red Forest | RICK MOODY
from Something Wrong with Him: A Hybrid Memoir | CRIS MAZZA
The Yellow Wallpaper (1899) | CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN
POETRY
Eating Children on a Fall Day | AMYE ARCHER
Earthboy | NOAH BURTON
Alligator Ecology | AARON APPS
The God of Knickknacks | ROCHELLE SHAPIRO
His Flaming Sister | LINDSAY VAUGHAN
Scene Likely Needed (Frankenstein Machine) | MATTHEW HARRISON
Undertow | MEG TUITE
FIN DE SIÈCLE
The Talking Cure | VIPRA GHIMIRE
On Alois Riegl and Miley Cyrus’s Intervention: A Prospective, Postmodern Critique | RANDY LEONARD
Ernst Gombrich: Art Historican in Debate and Dialogue with Scientists | RICHARD PERKINS
Oskar Kokoschka and the Search for the True Self(ie) | DANIELLE DAY
Sixty Thousand Truths | J. R. WILLIAMS
The Password to Postmodernism Is Denmark | PETER J. GOODMAN
To Arthur Schnitzler | EMILY TURNER
What Photography Did | BARRY PALMER
NONFICTION
A Supposedly Relaxing Thing That Gives Me a Really Serious Case of the Heebie-Jeebies | BRETT SLEZAK
Along the Path to Citizenship | MAYA KANWAL
Angel | WILLIAM HILLYARD
Average Ordinary Trainwreck | RUTH BERGER
For the Greater Good | VIPRA GHIMIRE
Fractals | RICHARD O’CONNELL
I Live in a Town | CHELSEY CLAMMER
Blue | HANNAH HEIMBACH
Marginalia | ANNA MARIE JOHNSON
Famous Writers Groups | JACQUELINE DOYLE
Virginia Woolf, Illinois | TATIANA RYCKMAN
We Are Woman | AMELIA NEIRENBERG
An Open Letter to a Suicidal Friend, a Bulimic Friend, A Long Lost Aunt and Stephanie, My New LinkedIn Connection | RAE BRYANT
GALLERY
Annie Terrazzo
Kim Buck
Zina Nedelcheva
Rania Moudaress
We are pleased to announce our nominations for this year’s Pushcart Prize Series in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and translation. This was a very difficult decision, narrowing our nominees, as we have been honored to publish outstanding works by outstanding writers throughout every issue. Congratulations to our nominees and best wishes to them and all the Pushcart Prize nominees from our colleague journals. It has been a fantastic year in literature both print and online.