The Fiction Issue
The Rugby Witch
By Benjamin Nugent
"What was the point of a sport if it didn't terrify you?"
March
By Samar Fitzgerald
"The cold pricks and envelops his skin. It has both a granular and infinite quality he could not have imagined."
The Relapse
By Leslie Jamison
"From her first meeting, Claudia sensed she would relapse and that it would be with Jack."
The Literary Upstart Winner:
PENNY
By Debora Kuan
"People who hump the bedpost should not throw stones."
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Literary Upstart Finalist:
Pet Hospital
By Snowden Wright
"We could have made an invisible man with all those amputations."
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Literary Upstart Finalist:
Men Kill Things
By Sam J. Miller
"His silence deepens; his five-year-old brain stretching to accommodate a new kind of suffering."
