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Drew Attana, Libby Bernardin, Joshua Bernstein, Joan E. Bauer, Linda Blaskey, Willa Carroll, Anne Champion, Sheldon Lee Compton, Darren C. Demaree, Michael Diebert, Rod Dixon, Tamas Dobozy, Barbara Eckroad, Craig Evensen, Catherine Faurot, Henry Goldkamp, Matthew Graham, Jeremy Griffin, George Guida, Michelle Hartman, Nicole Henares, Elizabeth Herron, Gloria Keeley, David Koehn, Katheryn Krotzer Laborde, James Lineberger, Antonio Lopez, S. B. Merrow, Jess Mize, Matthew Raymond, Ann Shaffer, Erin Slaughter, Richard Spilman, Kristina Wessel (cover artist), Sarah Wetzel, Alison Wittenberg
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Heavenly Creatures Contest Winner: “Fathom” by Claire Bateman
Of drowning in the sky there can be no end. Even the sky drowns in place, plummeting, shocked to be vertical, and only as it gaspingly approaches the ground does it start to perceive its own transparent nature— all along, it had assumed its labor was occlusive, its...
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