Whalefall — Kimberly Potthast — Wigleaf (encountered in 2025)

Breath — Bruce Johnson — Wigleaf (encountered in 2025)

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

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

Arcadia — Emma Cline — Granta (encountered in 2025)

An Impossibly Small Ball of Matter —Matthew Dix — The End / reprinted in Soft Union (encountered in 2025)

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

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

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