First Proof

I was seventeen and working / in the fields that summer. / A seed corn job, not bad pay, / detasselling and rogueing mostly.

Let’s just make an example.

Winner of BOMB’s 2021 Fiction Contest, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh

Excerpts from the collection.

Congrats to Edward Salem, the winner of this year’s Fiction Contest!

A new short story.

Jenzo Duque’s story “Village Pets” tracks Pablo Escobar’s escaped hippos as they encroach upon a village and its people.

An annotation of Fefe Dobson’s “Stupid Little Love Song” excerpted from the essay collection Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother.