• each day demands we create our whole world over,
  disguising the constant horror in a coat
  of many-colored fictions; we mask our past
  in the green of Eden, pretend future’s shining fruit
  can sprout from the navel of this present waste
  – from Sylvia Plath’s Tale of a Tub

• The night is near,
  A nitric shape that leaps her, time and acid;
  I tell her this: before the suncock cast
  Her bone to fire,
  Let her inhale her dead, through seed and solid
  Draw in their seas,
  So cross her hand with their grave gipsy eyes,
  And close her fist.
  – from Dylan Thomas’ A Grief Ago

• Writing instruction manuals for appliances that didn’t exist.

• Ten thousand dollars worth of cheese.

• DON’T FEED THE GRASS.

• Level with God and you’re in tune with the Universe
  Talk with yourself and you’ll hear what you wanna know
  Gotta rise above because below it’s only gettin worse
  Life in time will take you where you wanna go
  – Aerosmith

Best of the Best:

A Virgin’s Milk by Steve Ramey
Final Scores by Gef Jones

Best Flash:

A Virgin’s Milk by Steve Ramey
Final Scores by Gef Jones

Best Narrative Voice:

Riding the Lightning by Terry Pearce
Marcella by Mark DeMoss

Best Characterization:

Where to Mister? by Kate Alexander-Kirk
Final Scores by Gef Jones

Best Setting Development:

The Come-Arounds by plink+
Lurking by klutterfly

Best Dialogue:

A Virgin’s Milk by Steve Ramey
Work Ethic by Steve Ramey
Sphincter Logic by RomanWilderness

Best Title:

A Virgin’s Milk by Steve Ramey
DO NOT FEED THE GRASS!! by klutterfly
The Come-Arounds by plink+
Marcella by Mark DeMoss

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