December 02, 2017
Announcing the winner of the 2018 G.B. Crump Prize in Experimental Fiction:
Thomas Lakin, for his story "Other People."
Lakin will receive $1,000.00 and his story will appear in the January 2019 issue of Pleiades (39.1).
The other four finalists are:
"The Summer of Men and Mama" by Sarah Cody
"The Baton of Fame and Infamy" by Benjamin Tedoff
"The Character Profile of Rita-Mae Watkins" by Kenneth Fleming
"MP ...
November 29, 2017
Hunter Choate's story "The Amazing Uros" (Pleiades 36.1) was named a "Special Mention" in the Pushcart Prize 2017. Congratulations, Hunter! An excerpt is included below. To read the whole issue, click here.
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The Amazing Uros
by Hunter Choate
The Amazing Uros’s costume is a kaleidoscope against the gray sky. At the edge of the ten-story rooftop, he stands on one hand, balanced atop a teetering stack of ...
November 27, 2017
Maggie Smith
Parachute
Because a lie is not a lie if the teller
believes it, the way beautiful things
reassure us of the world’s wholeness,
of our wholeness, is not quite a lie.
Beautiful things believe their own
narrative, the narrative that makes them
beautiful. I almost believed it
until the new mother strapped
her infant to her chest, ...
November 20, 2017
Kristin Robertson
Meet the Owl with Eyes Like the Night Sky
–with a title from I Fucking Love Science
We all knew the boy who plucked out his glass eye
on the bus to distract the match-lighting boys,
the bigger boys, from setting his only jacket on fire.
We played Marco Polo with him in the ...
