Winter 2024

Dedicated to Nicholas Johnson and Maureen Holm, co-founders of BigCityLit

HERE by Nicholas Johnson

Poetry

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15 Reasons to Go Skinny Dipping

by Lenny DellaRocca

Entering the Field of Darkness

by Martin Willitts Jr

Gowanus

by Gerald Wagoner

Killers by Design

by Jim Tilley

Let’s play a Bayesian game

by Jen Stein

Not This Time

by Julene Waffle

Sonic Babka

by Marc Alan Di Martino

The Price of Narrow Shoes

by Melinda Thomsen

Three Months

by CL Bledsoe

TWO POEMS

by Geer Austin

VACATION

by Elizabeth Morse

Fiction

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My First Deer

by Robert Pope

No Shame

by Toby Tucker Hecht

Nora’s Caravan

by Maxim Matusevich

Second Place

by Charlie Fish

The Newborn

by Mohammadreza Fayaz

Nonfiction

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On the Road with Ray

by Alan Swyer

Women on the Ice

by Alice Lowe

Reviews

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Now in Contest, by Richard Levine

Review by Rhina P. Espaillat