Short Fiction Story(s)
Contest Winner Edition
Evan Guilford-Blake - First Prize
“Inside is a small mound of gray-brown-blackness, its contour interrupted by tiny protrusions. She takes a deep breath, then touches one. Bone. But there is no sensation in the contact; it's as insignificant, as asymbolic, as the residue of last night's chicken…”
Joe Kilgore - Second Prize
“He turned and faced the mirror. The image he saw in the
glass didn’t reflect the one he saw in his head. The mirror revealed a sunken chest, thin pale arms and veins that stood out
like a relief map on the back of his hands and wrists, a manhood that hung limp and low and led to shapeless thighs, bony knees and
meatless, almost non-existent calves…” Read more
Annika Finne - Honorable Mention
“Aisle three is canned foods. There is enough to weather any sort of disaster, for a time. It is plausible, she thinks, that a catastrophe could happen today, the world is so heavy with rain, a big soggy balloon waiting to be split open…”
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