Fiction Winners Fiction Winners “Patrus” by Cameron Deslaurier May 6, 2023 Per the Delta-Deviance Articles, Article I, Section 4, citizens of Atollis must report all sightings of unregistered Deltas to the DATA within 24... “Rodeo Heat” by Gabrielle Esposito May 6, 2023 You’re sitting on hot metal stands wondering how you got here. Not the physical here of Dry Cactus Rodeo Arena or Benson, Arizona, but your path in... “Haunted Ghosts” by Katya Lyashenko June 18, 2022 Second place winner for The Jennie Hackman Memorial Award for Short Fiction (2022) The thing about living long enough to see the aftermath... “Moon-Stain and Crawdad Eater” by Charlie M. Case June 8, 2022 CW: Death, Domestic abuse This is what is most important: the ache in scraped knees. The crawdads scuttling among river rocks. The groan of pipes in... “Knell Inevitable” by Charlie M. Case June 8, 2022 CW: Illness, Death It came to me on the sixth night of my sickness, when the suffering had ceased to be new. I had been lulled into those familiar... “The Ostrava Line” by Liam Kelsey June 4, 2022 Contest winner for The Long River Review Graduate Award (2022) “What would you like to know about yourself?” This was what my neighbor asked me when I... Constance By Jeremiah Dennehy (2017) July 9, 2017 The Jennie Hackman Memorial Prize for Fiction, Third Place (2017) I don’t take the school bus, I don’t drive, and because mom doesn’t get home from... Erythrophobia By Jameson Croteau (2017) July 8, 2017 From out in the outfield dirt, the crack of the bat was the only indicator a ball was rising up before dive bombing, back through the crepuscular sky... Crumbling Walls By Kristina Reardon (2017) July 6, 2017 Long River Graduate Writing Award, Winner (2017) “Petra, she say there be bones,” my grandmother told me, pointing beyond me to the old castle on top... 123456