Nonfiction

Issue 1
How Air Moves

by Leslie Roberts.
“Underneath is a body cast, my new ectoskeleton, my nautilus, crawled into, where I live now.”

Iambic Pentameter and the Meter of War

by Diane Cameron.
“In the 1940’s, a young Marine returns from China to a small Pennsylvania town. One year later finds the body of the mother-in-law sprawled on the kitchen floor and the body of the wife in the living room, both perforated with bullets.”

Issue 38 2020 Prize winners
Conduit

by River Adams.
“This is a temple for them, I thought. This is where the gods will be merciful or not. And I speak for the gods.”

Issue 2
Snapshots of Bellevue

by Sandra Opdycke.
“When sick New Yorkers failed to find a place in private institutions like New York Hospital, they turned to public hospitals like Bellevue.”

Issue 1
Snapshots of Bellevue

by Dewitt Stetten, Jr.
“On the east side of First Avenue, between 26th and 31st Streets in Manhattan, stood the ancient brick pile that was Bellevue Hospital.”

Issue 38 2020 Prize winners
Refugere

by Nina Adel.
“Any place a place of refuge. Any place, as long as it’s not the place you’ve left. Live anywhere, but always leave the back door open.”

Issue 9
Quarantine  

by Matthew Davis.
“I knew plague existed in Mongolia, but I had always thought it stayed in smaller towns further west.”