Anton Chekhov Award for Very Short Fiction 2019 – Third Place We always planned to take my Barbie, the one with the match-burned hair, and toss her into the silo. We bent her arms, shrimp-pink and puckered from the hiss-press-melt…
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Anton Chekhov Award for Very Short Fiction 2019 – Second Prize More Than Sex by Carmen Thompson Good hurt. Wake up in well danced bones hurt. Wake up in last night’s clothes hurt. Wake up in your clothes. I wear…
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Anton Chekhov Award for Very Short Fiction 2019 – First Prize Urineworts Bruce Meyer When we were living in the mining community, a place that is now a ghost town with nothing left to show for everyone’s hard work except…
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Results from Judge, Angela Readman Winner: “Urineworts” by Bruce Meyer 2nd Place: “More Than Sex” by Carmen Marcus 3rd Place: “Something Like Drowning” by Gaynor Jones Judge’s Report by Angela Readman The winning stories all stood out for not wasting…
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