April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

The Bar at the End of the World by Brandon Williams

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Earvin works the Flyers gas station all day, from an hour after sunup all the way through the evening.

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Sal Wants to Sleep by Serena Johe

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Sal feels time the way other people feel a shower spray’s gradually escalating heat.

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Peach by Thomas Gresham (Fiction Winner)

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Go back, way back, to when you were small and unhardened.

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

On Learning That Ho Chi Minh Once Worked as a Baker at the Parker House Hotel in Boston by Robbie Gamble (Poetry Winner)

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Nothing more iconic

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

Stories of Men and Women by M.K. Narváez (Nonfiction Winner)

April 15, 2018

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Spring 2018

When I was seven years old the maid told me about a man who kidnapped a young girl.

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

Cadenza by Naira Kuzmich

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

There was once a composer. Or a critic. She did not remember exactly.

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

Cut & Run by Laura M. Gibson

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

Essie tonged the jars into her mother’s old pressure cooker, seated the lid and set the timer. Through the kitchen window above the sink, she eyed the empty side yard.

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

Insomnia by Hannah Rahimi

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

Here is what I dreamt when I finally got to sleep in the early morning: Someone had taken all the eggs from my fridge and devilled them.

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

Anna Calls to Me From the Kitchen by David Sugarman

January 15, 2018

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Winter 2018

The trees on my street were not well.

October 15, 2017

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Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Richard by David J. Wingrave

October 15, 2017

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Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

The boy sits on his parents’ bed. His mother sits on the floor. Outside, a few soapsud clouds drift against the blue. 

October 15, 2017

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Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

October 15, 2017

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Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Laughing and Turning Away by Patrick Holloway

The first time I had a gun pointed at me I was 14 and I ran home crying, and my brother laughed at me, calling me burra, saying I’d better get used to it. I didn’t know if he meant getting used to seeing guns or getting used to being stupid.

October 15, 2017

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Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Homecoming by Zachary Lunn

October 15, 2017

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Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Josh lit a Marlboro Light and hung his arm out the passenger window of his father’s Ford Taurus.

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Windfall by Edward Hamlin

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

Nothing has prepared them for the Colorado wind, which is no ordinary wind but a sudden, pugilistic wind as violent as any Atlantic gale.

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

October 15, 2017

Carve Magazine

Fall 2017, Raymond Carver Contest

The Anatomy of Todd Melkin by Catherine Malcynsky

After seeing an episode of Law & Order in which a mother murdered her infant child by forcing it to swallow a kitchen sponge, forty-one-year-old Todd Melkin was even more convinced that he had a tumor in his brain.

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

A Survivor Story by Dan Hernandez

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

When Colin left the House for the first time after his last treatment cycle, he said he was “going to grab some air.”

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

Measures of Time by Andrea Eberly

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

Paul sat on the toilet and held his hand out the window, cigarette hanging from his fingers. Der Spiegel lay on his hairy thighs opened to an article about the European Union’s newest member states. And then he heard it.

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

The Difficult Kind by Stephanie Austin

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

So, it snowed. Just a little.

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

A Girl Called Penny by Jacqueline Guidry

July 15, 2017

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Summer 2017

A Girl Called Penny by Jacqueline Guidry

By the end of my first month of piano, Miss Harry pretty much pronounced me void of rhythm and close to tone deaf but tried to be tactful in laying out my faults, not wanting to offend my mother.

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Children's Home by William Klein

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Ben’s taking four residents to walk on the loose-dirt path behind the Children’s Home when they spot it: a grey parrot in a skeletal tree, the ribbon of a yellow balloon tied to its feet.

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Gifts by Joanna Pearson

April 15, 2017

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Spring 2017

Lynn Drucker was the sort of woman who had made me reluctant to attend the group in the first place, and now she wanted to be my best friend.