History Repeating Shortlist

by Rebecca Paredes
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Editor’s Note

Our History Repeating challenge asked for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction about cycles of destruction, recurring conflict, and what happens when those cycles break. We’re so pleased to bring you our shortlist, which recognizes the pieces that excited and moved us. Keep your eyes peeled next week for our finalists!

Underground Railroad Overground” by Scott Michael Black

A Black Mother Goes to the Hospital to Give Birth” by Juanita Cox

Army Sendoff” by Dario Cvencek

War Fatigue” by Martin Settle

Inheritance Pattern” by Veronica Tucker 

Fearsome Daughter” by Alise Versella

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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 is currently working on a novel inspired by her hometown.

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