Issue 48

FOREWORD

Issue 48 Foreword by Lauralee Leonard

FICTION

The Veil Thins by Fiona Ennis (Winner)
Bushmeat by Chinaecherem Obor (Honorable Mention)
Gurung’s Women by Nandini Bhattacharya
The Way to Serenity by Ronald Niezen
Arakawa Town by Yuya Hattori
Soot by Michael Welch
Signs by Marcia Walker
Respirator by TW Dalton
Cartilage by Sabrina D. Wang

NONFICTION

Every Day Anew by Pia Jee-Hae Baur (Winner)
Caged by Liesel Hamilton (Honorable Mention)
Next of Kin by Carlos Rafael Gómez
Popcorn Day by Veronica Cano
Tanghulu by Diane Zinna

POETRY

Cleaver by Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador (Winner)
Hard to Face the Day by Cedric Rudolph (Honorable Mention)
Homage to My Radiated Hip by Laura E. Garrard
On the Way to Losing a Mother Tongue by Karen Zheng
Jellyfish and Grit by Maya Klauber
Super Blue Moon by Laurie Sansom
The Closet by Michael Montlack
Poker Face by Christopher Stewart
s/p CVA, with Left Hemiparesis by Timothy Kelly
Stage IV by Won Lee
Vigil by Brett Warren
How Do We Forgive by Kelly Grace Thomas
Don’t Cry by Bridget Bell
Diagnosis First to Last by Cecil Morris
Alopecia by Wendy Wisner
Miscarriage by Becky Nicole James
On My Way to West 4th Street by Xinyue Huang
When Your Back Ache Returns by Joseph Radke
Table for Two by Judith Fox
Appendectomy by Alexandra Ozols
Eli Tidies Up by Rob Macaisa Colgate

EXTRA

Book Review: Intervals by Marianne Booker, reviewed by Peter Bricklebank