This page features links to the works of writers who placed second and third in the monthly Oblongata Contests!
Oblongata Contest #1
POETRY
"...like baboon brain/banging on the bark of nascent consciousness..."
"...lying across the stilled aorta..."
FLASH FICTION
Straight-forward prose with excellent tone and layered meaning!
Check
out Sarah's very first publication---a roiling liquid piece of flash!
Oblongata Contest #2
POETRY
"...Pacing pupils burn/with
battery acid blinks..."
FLASH FICTION
"Night Train"---a visceral, detailed story with a mysterious theme.
FICTION
This story has unforgettable lines: "Each tear was like a small person climbing down the front of her flushed cheeks."
Oblongata Contest #3
POETRY
"The Classic Age"—"Dead in the brain,/alive in the crotch..."