Read our Flash Contest Winning Story
by Olivia Fantini
“It is too soon to test. We wait. The bleeding will stop or it won’t, and then we will know.” From “Implantation Bleeding”
chosen by contest judge, Rachel Lyon
New Poems in the Nest by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran
“no two things ever really touch– / except on maps. Huron and Michigan look a little like a pair of lungs.” from“ Lover's Leap” By Molly Moran
“And we were the laugh track to our sick version of America’s Funniest Home Videos—rewinding/replaying Mom’s punchline.” from “In the Oven” By Jenny Maaketo
New Poems in the Nest by Madeleine Mori
“I sign no lease in Brooklyn, / do not accept the life you envision for me without you.” From “Remain”
“When fresh retina is braided into / burnt fibers, do the living see through the dead,"
From “Rotoscope”
New Poems in the Nest
“who gathered these and why / pursue a form that would be razed / by noon." from “Sand Mermaid” By Maya Bernstein
“The sky looks uninspired / when I plead with it. / I want to see the planets / my father showed me."
from “Inland” By Michael Juliani
New Poems in the Nest by Kuhu Joshi
“Unlike Ganga and Yamuna, you seemed to have / no role. In you, my grandmothers drowned / who they could be.”
From Letter to Saraswati
“What I wanted to know was, / are you lonely? Do you have enough / family?”
From Spell to Call on My Future Family
