The Coroner’s Version Third Place in the Letter Review Prize for Short Stories New Fiction by Annie Dawid April 14, 2023 The Coroner’s Version “A 10-year-old boy accidentally shot himself and died from his injuries Tuesday in Willits, WY” The New York Times Daily Gun Report In my thirty seven years as coroner of Willits … Read more
Try-Hard Second Place in the Letter Review Prize for Short Stories New Fiction by Francesca Newton April 14, 2023 If you have to blame someone for what happened outside the gallery, blame my father. The slug. He sat life out, let reruns of American sitcoms fill the hole where his mind was meant to be. … Read more
Ghazal: Nature Poetry by Shilpa Dikshit Thapliyal January 15, 2023 Field of poppies, brimming saucers, wildflowers of nature.The night, a bedspread, thin, unfeeling, dark hours of nature. Foraging lichen and twigs, studious sunbirds weaving nests,their trill in lonely lanes, morning showers of nature. No roots or forefathers to hold hands on new lands.Stories cascade on … Read more