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Best of the Net 2016 nominations

September 29, 2016/in Blog / Arielle Silver

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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

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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Lilac and The Housefly: A Tale of Tortured Romanticism

October 24, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Nikki Mae Howard
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Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Alternate lives 

April 17, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Ayesha Raees
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Two Poems

April 10, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Jax NTP
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English Translation

March 27, 2026/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Carrie Chappell
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

Editing issue 28, I felt something similar to the way I feel near water: I dove into my own private world. The world above the surface kept roaring, of course. The notifications, deadlines, the constant noise was always there. But inside the work, inside these poems and stories and artwork, there was a quiet that felt entirely mine. A place where I could breathe differently.

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