First Proof

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.

A mother on getting acquainted with her postpartum libido.

i will erect the new paradise / i will build and decorate it / LIKE a garden in an outgoing/incoming vessel / with ornamented walls / with a basin in the floor

The last attempt on the life of Andrew Haswell Green took place on Park Avenue in 1903. News of his murder filled the front page of the New York Times: “‘Father of Greater New York’ Shot in Front of His Home.”

A series of erasure poems.

Excerpted from the memoir, Negative Space