Image: “Alone at Midnight” by Jillian Dawson

Fiction

“Barber,” Alexander Shalom Joseph

“Fragile,” Eve West Bessier

“Picture Day at Motherland Disposal Center,” F.M. Scott

“Which One,” Ivy Goodman

“Water Cycle,” Kristin Chemis

“Don’t Move” and “Margeaux is my roommate.,” Dale Trumbore

“The Rains of Caledonia,” Kody Ford

“Lydia’s Kitchen,” “Lydia’s Basement,” and “Lydia’s Bedroom,” Gina Margolies

“How to Be Alone in Chaos: 10 Easy Steps,” Leah Blevins, Jessi Cornell, Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Steve Dennis, Laurence Foshee, and Mary Abbruzzese

Nonfiction

“My Husbands, from Ages Seven to Twenty-Seven,” Michelle Cristiani

“Mostly Normal,” Alexis Kelleher

“Strike Three,” D. Dina Friedman