NONFICTION
City/Subway/Gospel
“...you see that kind of look a lot in New York subway cars, if you look closely under sunglasses and behind worn paperback books.”
Sonya azencott
Biology Textbook for Fathers and Daughters
“If I missed three passes in a row while we practiced volleyball in the backyard, he’d let the ball roll into the weeds at the bottom of the hill and hug me until I got tears all over his shirt.”
emma estridge
My Grandfather: An Encyclopedia
“Five minutes later the two of you were lying back to back in a bathtub on the second floor because bullets can’t get through porcelain.””
zoe reay-ellers
Forty Prompts for Thanksgiving Dinner
“Write about when she tried to escape. About when she gave up, she started to peel off the wallpaper. At first by a little, then by a lot.”
kaydance rice
Point Guard
“‘I have to be a role model,’ she said. I looked up at the basketball sitting in a case in her room.”
morgan spencer
The Unreality of Great Wolf Lodge
“I’d have the normal dreams—muddled recreations of my classes that day—and not the alternative. The alternative being, usually, something to do with zombies.”