Diane Cook has made her selections! We are proud to present the final ten stories and essays that will be included in the special tenth edition of our annual anthology. Thank you so much to all of our submitters, without whom we could not produce such an excellent book every year. Congratulations to the thirty writers whose work was selected for our shortlist, and especially to these final ten, whose words will fill TMR’s Volume X!

The Bird Rattle by Chelsy Diaz Amaya

Atlas, Bayonet, (War) Correspondence: An Abecedarian by Tanya Bellehumeur-Allatt

Limbs by Megan Callahan

Do Not Duplicate by John Darcy

Resurrection by Hilary Dean

Comfort Animals by Travis Eisenbise

Persimmon by Elissa C. Huang

All That Is or Ever Was or Ever Will Be by Eliana Ramage

A String of Lapis Beads by Greg Schutz

Sugar by Francis Walsh