deluge | drought issue

FICTION

Becoming a Member by Michael Czyzniejewski

*The Good Neighbor by Bob Johnson

Land Locked by Kristin Berkey-Abbott

Equinox by Mary Cantrell

*Blizzard—Grover, Missouri, Christmas 1893 by Joseph M. Schuster

FLASH

The Very Hungry Pregnant Woman by Laura Morris

*Surviving by Angela Joynes

Low Pressure Area by Beth Sherman

Childhood by Gary Fincke

*Alejandro by Zoé Mahfouz

To the Empty Robin’s Nest by Benjamin Woodard

CREATIVE NONFICTION

To the Woman with Money to Give Away by Brandy E. Wyant

*Once Upon a Time. Fuck You. The End. by Sue Eisenfeld

Music Lessons After He’s Gone by Patricia Canright Smith

*Divining Rods by Maria McLeod

Living in the Between by Bryana Fern

POETRY

new grass days by Lucinda Trew

White ibises are wading waterbirds, but by Jen Karetnick

*Villanelle For a Child Shaped Like a Necklace Shaped Like a Star by Julia DaSilva

I See a Beating Heart by Eric Odynocki

Pearl Street Bridge by Jason Gray

*Encapsulated by Özge Lena

Ark by Shira Haus

Aubade with Pandemic and Dementia by Juliana Gray

Work of the Thief by Hilary King

door by Maureen Thorson

PORTFOLIO

Photographs by Brian Bouldrey

Lake Michigan Lapping, an essay by South 85 Artist-in-Residence, Brian Bouldrey

Artist Statement

*Long list for the Editor’s Choice Award

TBA: Finalists for Editor’s Choice Award & Editor’s Choice Award