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[FONT="] FIRST PLACE[/FONT]
[FONT="] Gregg Cusick of Durham, North Carolina:[/FONT]
[FONT="] "Gutted"[/FONT]
[FONT="] SECOND PLACE[/FONT]
[FONT="] Kate Zahnleiter of Queensland, Australia: [/FONT]
[FONT="] "The Cloud Creature"
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[FONT="] THIRD PLACE[/FONT]
[FONT="] John Medeiros of Minneapolis, Minnesota:[/FONT]
[FONT="] "Losing Dylan"[/FONT]
[FONT="] HONORABLE MENTIONS[/FONT]
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[FONT="] FIRST PLACE[/FONT]
[FONT="] Gregg Cusick of Durham, North Carolina:[/FONT]
[FONT="] "Gutted"[/FONT]
[FONT="] SECOND PLACE[/FONT]
[FONT="] Kate Zahnleiter of Queensland, Australia: [/FONT]
[FONT="] "The Cloud Creature"
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[FONT="] THIRD PLACE[/FONT]
[FONT="] John Medeiros of Minneapolis, Minnesota:[/FONT]
[FONT="] "Losing Dylan"[/FONT]
[FONT="] HONORABLE MENTIONS[/FONT]
[FONT="](listed in no particular order)[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jane Connors of [/FONT][FONT="]St Peters, Australia, for "Too Much Red My Favourite Colour"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Caroline Roberts of [/FONT][FONT="]Knoxville, Tennessee, for "A Sweater's True Story"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Douglas Bruton of [/FONT][FONT="]West Linton, Scotland, for "Harriet and Sparks and Mayflies"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Pushkal Juneja of [/FONT][FONT="]Noida , India, for "The Wall"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Amy Hillgren Peterson of [/FONT][FONT="]Fostoria, Iowa, for "Namesake"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Pranav S. Joshi of [/FONT][FONT="]Singapore, for "Permanent Distance"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Matt Schnarr of [/FONT][FONT="]Fallbrook, California, for "The Infinite Lines of Thornton Brown"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Annemarie Neary of [/FONT][FONT="]London, England, for "A Little Hell"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Dwight Holing of [/FONT][FONT="]Orinda, California, for "Salt"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Julie Wu of [/FONT][FONT="]Belmont, Massachusetts, for "Daughter Lost"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Laurie Ann Cedilnik of [/FONT][FONT="]Houston, Texas, for "EWR"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Brianna Strange of [/FONT][FONT="]Brooklyn, NY, for "To Be: A Verb Unsurpassable in Accounts of Existential Crises"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Natalia Sarkissian of [/FONT][FONT="]Milan, Italy, for "SOUP"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jewelene Barrile of [/FONT][FONT="]Brunswick. Australia, for "Hope"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mark Daniel Hicar of [/FONT][FONT="]Nashville, Tennessee, for "Getting Used to It"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kate Amatruda of [/FONT][FONT="]Novato, California, for "Suburbia"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Angie FarrowofPalmerston, North New Zealand, for "Acceleration"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Anna El-Eini of [/FONT][FONT="]Washington D.C., for "OF A BROKEN-HEARTED RIVER"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Paul D. Marks of [/FONT][FONT="]Santa Clarita, California, for "ENDLESS VACATION"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Mark Howell of Key West, Florida, for "Some Strange Thing"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kimila Bowling of [/FONT][FONT="]Bloomfield, Missouri, for "Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kendal Hay of [/FONT][FONT="]Shreveport, Louisiana, for "Mayflies in Spring"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Sarah Reed Callender of [/FONT][FONT="]Seattle, Washington, for "Between The Sun and the Oranges"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Marie Hermet of [/FONT][FONT="]Sevres, France, for "Catch A Tiger by the Toe"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Louise Hawes of [/FONT][FONT="]Pittsboro, North Carolina, for "Ancient History"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Laura Lewis of [/FONT][FONT="]Dunedin, New Zealand, for "Reading Turkish Coffee"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ndanyuzwe Gaston of [/FONT][FONT="]Brussels Belgium, for "Poor Man's Freedom"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Chanel V. Rossi of Aurora, Ohio, for "Hold On to Nothing"[/FONT]
[FONT="]L. Edwin Greer of New York, New York, for "Ebb Tide"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Michael Pearce of Oakland, California, for "Dragon Arm"[/FONT]
[FONT="]C.D. Cashman of Concord, Massachusetts, for "Dear Professor Anglehart"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jon Simonds of The United States, for [/FONT][FONT="]"Two Gallants"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Joann W. Dunn of Marietta, Georgia, for "A Row of Lime Trees"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Jan B. Parker of Fuquay Varina, North Carolina, for "Mayme"[/FONT]
[FONT="]M.D. Mallicoat of Gerrardstown, West Virginia, for "Piano Boys"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Elayne Roman of West Caldwell, New Jersey, for "Small Change"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Kaye Park Hinckley of Dothan, Alabama, for "Moon Dance"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Justine Siener of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, for "Ivrogne"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Barbara Ann Sapp of Paris, France, for "Malaga Sweet, Malaga Dry"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Lones Seiber of Morristown, Tennessee, for "Fields Where Glory Does Not Stay"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Danielle Rae Bryant of [/FONT][FONT="]Middletown, Maryland, for "Good Girl"
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[FONT="]Adam Stanley of Rome, Georgia, for "Hope Chest"
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[FONT="]Alex Carrick of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for "The Size of the Skip"[/FONT]
[FONT="]M. Esther Sherman of [/FONT][FONT="]Crestline, California, for "Me, Myself, Still Un-cool"[/FONT]
Congrats to the winners, though. I can't believe you didn't win, Manuel!