Flash Flood Winner—Bizzy Coy
Bizzy Coy The Un-alivers There was a deep and narrow gorge in upstate New York where all the millennials came to kill themselves. It started with one man who smashed [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Nicholas Claro
Nicholas Claro Housekeeping On the phone she said her hotel might be better. “I can’t do the house,” she said. “It’s too intimate and familiar. I left a key at [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Audrey Coldwell
Audrey Coldwell Egg There was a full-grown woman in my omelette today. I hadn’t been expecting her. Hadn’t wanted any more protein for breakfast than a cooked yolk or two—if [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Amanda Gaines
Amanda Gaines To Flame Your sister has killed you six times. Before she resorted to unnecessary violence, she handled you gently. Placed you on her water-ringed windowsill on fourteen separate [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Tara Isabel Zambrano
Tara Isabel Zambrano Slumdog Wives Let’s face it—we’re not all that beautiful, we have bad postures due to heavy lifting at the construction sites, sleeping at odd angles in [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Tolu Ogunlesi
Tolu Ogunlesi Harbinger There are icicles that form on the surface of oceans, translucent teeth putting roots down in the submerged mouth of God. There is ice—forbidding, jagged, sentient—that can [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Willow Campbell
Willow Campbell Jack Jack is a nice name and a good one for him, but nobody called him that until he was dead. He told his family about it in [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Miriam McEwen
Miriam McEwen Aunt Lou See, but you have this thing about not going to restaurant bathrooms with obnoxious able-bodied people who aren’t even attempting to assist you in some way. [...]
Flash Flood Winner—Michael Hammerle
Michael Hammerle Angel Numbers There’s a pattern I repeat. I'm looking for little moments of perfection, like synchronicities on digital clocks, to pray to. These are the moments it's easiest [...]
Flash Flood Winner–Silas Jones
Silas Jones Good Choices Two years ago, Connie McHale’s older sister Alexis got t-boned driving home drunk from a graduation party and even though she didn’t die and I’m [...]