Editors' Prize Winner | July 25, 2017

Winner of the 2016 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize for Essay

Hot swarf hit me in the eye, the pain insane, furious, awe-inspiring. The pain was so intense it seemed to take on shape, flare red: shards of fire illuminating my cornea. Inhuman pain.

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