VERY SHORT FICTION

July 2015 Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

David James Poissant for "Tornado"

2nd-place winner:

Adam O'Fallon Price for "Our Celebrity"

3rd-place winner:

Mary Kuryla for "Not in Nottingham"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Krista Asselstine for "Double On The Rocks"
Jack Austin for "I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying"
Sam Axelrod for "This Is the Way It Goes and Goes and Goes"
Alex Bernstein for "Clarity"
Sarah French for "Volunteer"
Shoshana Razel Gordon Guedalia for "Wrestling"
Emory Harkins for "Notes On Gulf"
Nevin Harralson for "The Second Death I Watched"
Elizabeth Henry for "Possum Moves North"
Nathan Hogan for "The Fainting Couch"
Susan Ingram for "Three Little Things"
Natalie Lund for "This Gift of Rocks"
Horatio Potter for "Ashes"
Zen Ren for "Book of Our Dirt"
Rafael Richardson-Carillo for "I Could See Them Burning"
Emily Saso for "Apocrypha"
Anna Schott for "North Fork of the Yuba River"
David Semonchik for "The Bee Story"
William Shih for "Outings"
Elizabeth Solms for "Small Hot Rooms"
James W. Tucker for "The Missing Band"
Michelle Wright for "[wərdz]"

Honorable Mentions

Olufunke Grace Bankole for "The Spirit of Entitlement"
Elspeth Benton for "The Important Stuff"
E. P. Bloch for "Like It Was"
João Cerqueira for "A House in Europe"
Holly Collingwood for "Double Yellow"
Isobel Cunningham for "Over the River"
Cristóbal de Losada for "Madam Wire"
John Estes for "To Constancy and Worthy Purpose"
Libby Flores for "Arlene"
Sohab Fracis for "Hood"
Antonia Fraser Fujinaga for "Another Way Back"
Elizabeth Gargano for "Memorabilia"
Peter Garner for "Breathing Tube"
Ann Harleman for "Diary Entry for 27 June 1915"
Kelly Harwood for "The Tobacco Connection"
Clarissa Hinojosa for "My Mom and God"
Nadia Hlebowitsh for "Mother Tongue"
Vanessa Kirk for "Flood Houses"
Jennifer Knox for "Tectonic Shifts"
Eric Kolenski for "Hacky Sack"
Tara Masih for "In a Sulfate Mist"
Bruce McAllister for "Beautiful Day"
Daryl McGrath for "No Idle Threat"
Michelle Meyers for "Beach Boys"
Setsuko Nagatoshi for "Like a Dream"
Hannah Rogers for "American Strangers"
Marilyn Salinger for "Oh Son"
Kim Siegelson for "Souvenir/September 1975"
Margie Skelly for "Standing in the Dark with my Family"
Diana Stadlmueller for "It Doesn’t Really Happen Until It Does"
Gabriel Tallent for "In the Wind"
Lee Thomas for "Windbound"
Anne Weisgerber for "F. Scott, Remember Me"
Sacha V. Wright for "After the Flood"
Dana Yeo for "A Cup of Sound"