- Pierced: A mass shooting survivor takes redemptive action during the day while nurturing his guilt at night (X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine).
- Overnight: A college student, home from studying abroad, finds America so changed that he feels like a foreigner (Montana Mounthful, page 29).
- Waves: A man dying of cancer discovers that being seen is the only way to stop the clock, however briefly (Scribble Lit).