Lara is over at my apartment. I made her linguine with homemade pesto and fried zucchini blossoms because I know she likes them. We ate lunch in the kitchen then moved into the living room which is also my bedroom. It’s big so everything fits. I showed her the window frame I’d painted a creamy […]
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by Haley Kennedy
This story was selected as the winner of the 2021 MAYDAY Fiction Prize Margo might be lost. She balances her iPhone on two free fingers, inspecting the street map. Under one arm she holds a repurposed Staples box filled with knickknacks she should have left at her desk. Under the other is a lacey […]
Garçon
by A. Shaikh
This poem was selected as the winner of the 2021 MAYDAY Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. A. SHAIKH (he/she/they) is a queer immigrant poet raised in the tangerine summers of Texas. They are the 2021 winner of THE BOILER PRIZE, an inaugural fellow of the Strange Tools Writer’s Workshop, and an Aquarius […]
