Winners of the Winter '07 50-50
Short Fiction
Writing Contest:
1st Place ($165 USD):
'There was no reason for him to notice the new radio. Amid the clutter
of his life it was just another possession, one more thing. Yet he
paused in his cramped basement office to stare at the sleek black
gadgetized rectangle.
Honorable Mentions:
Color of Echoes -
by D. Byron Patterson
'Morning. Half-naked. Night-beaten. Drug-drenched. Two lovers sit.
Fatally facing each other. Woman magnetized and full-frontal. Man
half-cocked and quiet. They smoke. They talk.'
"At
least I have a life,” Bitch says, and I tell her, “A hundred percent
of all life ends in ash or mud and maggots.”
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Fiction Short Story(s)
'I drag the red wheelbarrow
up the hill, the handle too big, its tires banging into my heels and
ankles; atop the hill, another me appears, to watch as I'm jolted
on the ride down, to yell, "Hold on," to rush down when the wagon
topples over and I am thrown away.'
'The moon
is not out tonight. That's a good thing. I peek through
my door, cracked slightly open, before moving out into the night. Some nights are so black here I cannot see my hand held out at arm's
length - seems like I'm disappeared. Not there.'
-Joshua
Foster
'I ain’t never
seen a dead man before, and I ain’t seen one since, and—honest truth
told—it don’t bother me none to ever see one again because that weekend
ruined me for good.'
