Feb 7, 2022 | 2021 4th Quarter Winners
The Worst Kind of Girl Susan Rukeyser “They found another body,” Seth called from the motel’s lone breakfast table, across from my front desk. “Out past the dry lakebed. This one was on fire.” His overgrown, salt-and-pepper hair was wild from the night before. Too...
Feb 7, 2022 | 2021 4th Quarter Winners
Crows Cape Gretchen Welch As she lay in bed, Claire listened to the rain. It hit the concrete on almost all sides, sounding all around her domed bedroom. Her morning interrupted by a cacophony of octave pitches. The echoes of the drops filled the cool space, pinging...
Feb 7, 2022 | 2021 4th Quarter Winners
Baby Goldman Pamela Gwyn Kripke PART ONE 1968 As a child, my mother fell asleep listening to the adults at the end of the hall. It was the 1940s, when relatives visited each other in the evenings and sat up and talked. They spoke about the baby, sometimes, the baby...
Nov 2, 2021 | 2021 winners
The Hidden Spirit Of The Forest Amelia Herridge Ishak The silence brought on the night. That fresh, crispy stillness that comes as the last of the day’s light slips away beyond the horizon. Time was frozen, the world taking a collective breath, before darkness...
Nov 2, 2021 | 2021 winners
Huge Ships Peter Hankins Again he had the powerful sense of being in the presence of death. Not feeling haunted or terrified: something calmer, as if he were walking in a graveyard. He knew it was no good lying in the dark waiting for his mind to move on (he’d tried...
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