Best of the Net 2016 nominations

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Lunch Ticket is honored and proud to nominate the following two pieces in Fiction, two in Creative Nonfiction, and six Poems from our Winter/Spring 2016 and Summer/Fall 2016 issues for Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net 2016. Do read these wonderful pieces!

1.HONOR’S JUSTICE by SABRINA FEDEL
ISSUE: WINTER/SPRING 2016

2.RUIN by LENA KHALAF TUFFAHA
ISSUE: WINTER/SPRING 2016

3.DOWN BY THE RIVER TO PRAY by LOIS RUSKAI MELINA
ISSUE: SUMMER/FALL 2016

4.FANTASMA by ROBERT ESNARD
ISSUE: SUMMER/FALL 2016

5.FATIMA, THE BILOQUIST: A TRANSFORMATION STORY by NAFISSA THOMPSON-SPIRES
ISSUE: SUMMER/FALL 2016

6.THE HALF-BUTTONED EFFECT by SAEIDE MIRZAEI
ISSUE: SUMMER/FALL 2016

7.THE SOUND by STEVE MUESKE
ISSUE: SUMMER/FALL 2016

8.THE CAREGIVER by CAROLINE JOHNSON
ISSUE: WINTER/SPRING 2016

9.BEYOND THIS PLACE by CLINT SMITH
ISSUE: WINTER/SPRING 2016

10.THRASH IN EIGHTHS by JILL KHOURY
ISSUE: WINTER/SPRING 2016

Word from the Editor

Our stories can be difficult, sometimes impossible, to tell. In her essay “Alone in Company,” Chelsea Bayouth reflects on the role of an artist at the end of 2018: “For me, it is to fear that every word or image is a window into public, political, and social tumult. It means you have to be more vulnerable than you or anyone in times previous has ever been.” If we continue to write, to paint, to dance, to show up for ourselves and our art every day, we might find that our work transcends ambiguity and discomfort to reveal a greater insight into ourselves, and if we are lucky, into the world.