Editors’ Picks

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Summer 2026

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     FICTION

       SHORT STORIES

• The Night Aunt Gretchen Died — Daniel Tarker
• Every Manifestation of my Being — Alex R. Encomienda
• How Binny Rempson Lost His Pants — Sharyn Kolberg
• My Redacted Life — Ron Micci
• Breads of the World — Elizabeth Cohen

       FLASH FICTION & MICRO FICTION

• Red Balloon — John Brantingham
• Together — John Sheirer

       NOVELETTES

• The Sound of Hammering in the Evening — Mario Lowther
• The Maiden Who Wasn’t Afraid of Corpses — Dana Trick
• An Incident Has Occurred at the OneLife Center off Sunset and 73rd — Bevy Daniel
• Gina — Anne Georg

     NONFICTION

• The Lifetime of Trauma — Buddy Matt Coughlin

     PLAYS

• Oscar’s Last Line — Mark Knight

     POETRY

• Through Window Cracks — Grace Lee
• The Hollow Crown: The Invention of Zero^† — Gil Ludere
• Unfinished Exit — Claudia Wysocky
• Golden — J. Clifford Milligan
• A dragon was born in a stream — Karen Lee
• The Wind — Seungmin Kim
• Riffing on a Telecaster Guitar — Aubrey Moncrieffe
• Winter Rain — William Teets
• Crust Punks^† — G.M.H. Thompson
• Why I liked rehab — J. Clifford Milligan
• Portrait of a Thoroughbred — Janice Boland
• The Wife — Nick Romeo
• untitled — Oksana Lizunova
• Dada Days Are Here Again — PW Covington
• Construction — John Grey
• Don’t read this one, Mom — Katharine Schulz

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