Awards Eligibility 2018

I have a pair of short stories published in 2018 that are awards eligible!

"The Imitation Sea." Published in Shimmer, April 2018 (short story, science fiction) 
"You find the dead Angel at five a.m. in the slurry of broken bottles and rotting fish on the Lake Erie shore. It almost looks human in the morning light, a ten-year-old, maybe eleven, boyish, face bloated, limp and blue and doughy..."

"Necessary Threads." Published in Fell Beasts and Fair, March 2018 (short story, fantasy)
 "The straw man is crumpled on the bank. He wears human clothes, plaid, denim, bright orange cotton, but he doesn't smell like skin..."