Discover the Surprising Contenders Shaping Hippocampus Magazine’s 2025 Best of the Net Nominees!
Our Best of the Net Noms
We selected one piece from our flash submissions and one piece from our essay submissions:
“When We Used to Glow” by Tom McAllister
Flash editor Wendy Fontaine had this to say about Tom’s piece:
Our readers loved this story for its delicate balance of wistfulness, wonder, and worry. It hits the right note of nostalgia without drifting into sentimentality, with the central image of the lightning bug woven throughout.
We’re incredibly proud of this piece and its continued success. This essay was also selected for the 2025’s The Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Susan Orlean. We previously nominated it for last year’s Pushcart Prize.
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