Checks and Balances Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
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Editor’s Note

We had so many incredible pieces submitted for our Checks and Balances challenge. This shortlist celebrates those that made our readers stop in their tracks, and we want to shout out these writers for their work. We’ll announce our finalists next week and publish their work at the end of March. Stay tuned!

Fiction:

Birding” by Seán Flynn

Before Leaving Home, Remember” by Shea West

Poetry:

Hate” by Dominic W. Holt

body count” by Hero Jason Uchebenu

Laundered and Sorted Out” by Linda Perlman Fields

Nonfiction:

Queen Bee” by Heidi Grogan

Rebecca Paredes

Rebecca Paredes is the Editor-in-Chief of Glossy Planet. She is a writer from Lake Elsinore, California, where the IHOP is located next to the graveyard, and an alumna of PEN America’s Emerging Voices Workshop LA. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Epiphany Magazine, Barren Magazine, Hunger Mountain Review, and other publications. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Texas Tech University and is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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