Return to the Coondog Castle — Ashleigh Bryant Phillips — Parhelion Literary Magazine (Fiction, encountered in 2025)

Clementine, Carmelita, Dog — David Means — Granta (Fiction, encountered in 2025)

Arcadia — Emma Cline — Granta (Fiction, encountered in 2025)

An Impossibly Small Ball of Matter — Matthew Dix — Soft Union (Poem, encountered in 2025)

Blowing Bubbles, Soft and Fine — Nathan Dragon — Soft Union (Non-fiction, encountered in 2025)

The Depressed Cockroach — Rebecca Grace Cyr — Soft Union (Fiction, encountered in 2025)

My Stalagmite — Sasha Brown — Twin Pies Literary (Fiction, encountered in 2025)