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XLIV Pushcart Prize & 2019 Best Small Fictions Nominations

Congratulations to our XLIV Pushcart
and 2019 Best Small Fictions nominations!

Pushcart

“Only the Gentle, Only the Strong” by Samuel J Fox
“Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell
“Don’t Feed the Yao Guai!” by Colee Wong
“Queynte” by John Repp
“Tasha Yar At Her Best” by Shanti Weiland
“Instructions for Those Who Have Learned Not to Cry” by Alex Vigue

BSF

“Bad Trip” by Meg Tuite
“‘Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1927’ by Ansel Adams” by Eric Dean Wilson
“Good Guess” by Kristine Langley Mahler
“Variables” by Nora Bonner
“On Your Way to and Mostly After a Car Wreck” by Marvin Shackelford

2018 Best of the Net Nominations

Congratulations to our nominations for this year’s
Best of the Net!

“Lineage” by Jay Douglas

“Only the Gentle, Only the Strong” by Samuel J Fox

“Neo” by Tyrek Greene

“Peter Discovers Wrinkles in His Shadow” by Shahé Mankerian

“(of use)” by Megan Merchant

“Fernweh” by Tamzin Mitchell

“Two Eggs” by Rebecca Schumejda

“Rapture of the Deep” by CJ Spataro

“The Immigrant, 1909” by Kenneth Wolman

“Don’t Feed the Yao Guai!” by Colee Wong

For information on the Best of the Net anthology, visit Sundress Publications.

Issue #26 – The Lyric Essay

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That which at first appears to be a lyric essay may be something else, just as the converse may also be true. And that which at first appears real, under scrutiny, demonstrates a deficit of reality. So writers use language to shore up cordons around the insufficiently-real object or phrase or event precisely so that she may vivisect it into a desired product, torture it into manageability.