The Race for the 37th: A Closer Look
Deborah Peden: What’s a nice girl like her doing in a race like this?
Bad Poetry - Honorable Mention
Bad Poetry - honorable mention 1A Republican Nursery Rhyme by Cheryl Clark
Poetry - Honorable Mention
Poetry - honorable mention 1Another Weekend in Peki Ghana by Kate Hartman
Fiction — 1st Place
Fiction — 1st PlaceInto The Great Behind by Kennedy KileanNo more arguing about it. He’s oldest and more experienced and owns the place, cleaned it up and stocked it with booze, signed the lease, the licenses. Name of the place stays, as is. So be it, says his younger brother Max, pinching silver cufflinks before massaging his gelled temples. Max is dapper, crisp, simmering through a rum-flavored hangover and squinting out a pair of eyes so webbed in red it’s as if some powerful worry burst the front of his brain, drizzled blood over his vision. And unlike his meatier big brother, Max doesn’t mind losing an argument, even with family. So Max shakes his head, plucks a book of matches, embossed with the name he can’t stand, understand, from a freshly swabbed ashtray and steps out to the noonday shine.
