Amanda Newell
Because I Am Lonely and You Will Not Know My Pain

Amanda Newell - Because I Am Lonely and You Will Not Know My Pain

Contest - 3rd Place
Amanda Newell is the author of the poetry chapbook, Fractured Light (Broadkill Press). Her poetry has appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Gargoyle, North American Review, RHINO Poetry, Scoundrel… Read more »
Christopher X Ryan
Day Shapes

Christopher X Ryan - Day Shapes

Contest - 2nd Place
Christopher X Ryan lives in Helsinki, Finland, where he works as a writer and book editor. Born in Massachusetts, he has an MFA from Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in… Read more »
Leslie Carlin
Occasionally Good

Leslie Carlin - Occasionally Good

Contest - 1st Place
Leslie Carlin is an anthropologist by day and a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction by night. Born, grown, and educated in the United States, she has spent most of her career in England and… Read more »

Because I Am Lonely and You Will Not Know My Pain - 3rd Place

Amanda Newell

I am pausing you at six seconds, just after you turn from the hood of the old blue Mercury to look back at the camera, at me, though I am not there (not yet), not the one recording how the wind, as you adjust the ignition coil, will whip across your lips the loose strands of your hair, or how, beneath your fingers, the Ironhorse will fire again, so loudly that everything— even the camera—will shake with the force of three thousand horses.
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