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Fiction

Stone and Paper and Vinyl and Skin: First Place Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction Winner

When Libby’s last check from the bike shop came around, their rent was already two weeks past due.

By Chad Willenborg

Fiction

Camille: Second Place Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction Winner

They honeymooned in a one-star Mississippi motel: a three-story dingy cube beside an asphalt lot

By Mary McMyne

Poetry

Down the Shore

I’d say we drowned the voice of  The deep Atlantic in Katy Perry. 

By Peter Galen Massey

Poetry

Rose of Jericho

It was a long way to here  Blind miles where   Only the highway moved 

By Lauren Fleck-Steff

Poetry

What’s Wrong With This Photo?

It’s not the slant of the pitched ball,  the average dust on the bases,  the haphazard smile of the shortstop

By Marjorie Maddox

Poetry

Doves

Before snowdrops before the crocuses tipsided in a rainstorm

By Jeanne Obbard

Poetry

Ode to My Therapist’s Floral Rug

Beneath the florescent thrum of conversation beneath every sole, heel, and rounded boot beneath pivotal hearts

By Nicole Zuckerman

Poetry

Citrus Aurantium Dulcis

I will love you before breakfast in the dark orange by orange

By Nicole Zuckerman