nonfiction
(to read any of the stories below, click the story's title.)
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First Place Winner: By Kevin S. PendletonThe Boxing Match“ ‘And in this corner, ladies and gentlemen, we have the undefeated champion with a record of several hundred billion wins and counting. Wearing black trunks and weighing in at black-hole density, everyone say hello to Grief.’ ” |
Honorable Mention: By Carly SvamvourThis Place, This Time,
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By Joanne DeMaioCamminando“And then it happened, one of those moments when time slows, the second hand barely clicking along. Its effect is strange, stretching out an intense fear so that every sense can register it, can take a look at it under some ethereal microscope.” |
By Shawna LemayCalm Things“If we hold these things at the centre of our heart, if we look closely and attentively enough, as carefully as the painter did, then there is a visitation, the calm eloquent message. We stand in the darkness of a door frame and suddenly remember to dip a toe into the other side, into the brightness.” |
By Gregory F. TagueBody, Blood, and Adoption“11 September 2001. . . . By now, each day has become a triangular circuit, an invisible electrical synapse spiritually connecting us as mother-daughter-father while we move about in separate places. The course of each day would pull at us, savagely wanting to tear.” |
