2025 Myths & Fables Prize SECOND PLACE WINNER: “God is Narcoleptic Too,” By Cheyenne Mann
A huge congratulations to Cheyenne Mann whose poem “God is Narcoleptic Too,” was selected by Jennifer Chang as the SECOND PLACE winner of the 2025 Myths & Fables Prize competition.
Cheyenne Mann’s God Is Narcoleptic Too imagines a universe tended by a God who is tired, attentive, and imperfect in the ways we recognize in ourselves. The poem moves between epochal catastrophes and a single summer-camp memory, blurring the scale of creation until cosmic time and teenage time share the same breath.
What emerges is a vision of divinity marked not by power but by persistence — a God who keeps trying to stay awake for us, and a speaker who recognizes her in the mirror of her own fatigue. The result is tender, strange, and quietly vast.
Experience her poem below.
God is Narcoleptic Too,
Cheyenne Mann
Cheyenne Mann is a surrealist fiction writer from Iowa. Their work is forthcoming in Chestnut Review and Gulf Coast. Cheyenne currently lives in Providence, RI, where they are an MFA candidate in fiction at Brown University. You can find them on instagram @cheyennewrites or on twitter @NotCheyenneMann.
