Josh Goller

The Molotov Cocktail Josh Goller

Explosive writing from the second year of quarterly contests at the The Molotov Cocktail lit zine. This anthology features 50 pieces: 40 bite-sized works of flash fiction under the themes of Monsters, Phenomena, Felons, and Icons, and 10 dark and offbeat poems.



In Colin Rowe's "The Testimony of the Accused," a harvester follows the malevolent advice of a black toad in the mouth of a milk snake. Shane Page's "House Spiders" takes the reader on a magical-realist stroll through a neighborhood of anthropomorphic arachnids. The undead scam the family of the recently departed in Jan Kaneen's "The London Umbrella Company." And F. E. Clark's "The Solstice Shade" will help you see Georgia O'Keeffe in a whole new light. Meanwhile, Amanda Chiado earned a Pushcart Prize nomination for her Shadow Award-winning poem "The Devil's Taken His Dress Off." And that's just the tip of the literary iceberg.

All told, Prize Winners Anthology Vol. 2 features work by Colin Rowe, Cassandra A. Clarke, Manuel Royal, Aeryn Rudel, Shawn Campbell, MB Vigil, Colton Adrian, Rhett Davis, Chris Milam, Sherry Morris, Shane Page, Robin Jeffrey, R. A. Roth, G. G. Silverman, Jan Kaneen, Leanne Radojkovich, Premee Mohamed, Seth Augenstein, James R. Gapinski, Henry Whittier-Ferguson, Melissa Monks, Emily Livingstone, Joshua Patterson, Rich Larson, Warren Buchanan, Charles Scott, Allison Spector, Amanda Chiado, Christopher P. Mooney, B. T. Schweitzer, Sara Ryan, Frances Klein, Elizabeth Vignali, Hannah Craig, John Gosslee, Forrest DePoy, F. E. Clark, Fiona Smith, Fred Senese, Christopher Stanley, Gabriel Thibodeau, Robyn Ryle, and Shane Gannaway.