Maggie Parr is a finalist in the 2009 Literary Awards Program. Below is an excerpt from her entry, Faith. ———– Chapter 1 Another bum, another whore, another night in the rotten city of Angels. She sneezed into the foul air. The sound bounced...
The skin of my fingertips is tender from the long climb the day before, stripped down to the thinnest of layers; pink and newborn. I touch the cool morning rock. An ocean breeze blows in past the knuckled headland, curling down the inlet and up the brushy slope to the...
Adam Sturtevant is the third place winner in the 2009 SFWP Literary Awards program. We’re excerpting a story from his winning collection, Ease Chest Tuck Hid Debt Art. Our new existence took on a life of its own after that first week. Matthew called and said he...
Adam Sturtevant is the third place winner in the 2009 SFWP Literary Awards program. We’re excerpting a story from his winning collection, Ease Chest Tuck Hid Debt Art. The Most Important Thing in the World When I first asked my wife, Shelly, to be a bitch, it...
Nicole Reid is the second place winner in the 2009 Literary Awards Program. Below is the first section of her entry, This One Last Thing. Phenomenology of a Braid Enid I’m her girl, the second. The baby. Or third, if you count my brother who is dead. We live in...
Nicole Reid is the second place winner in the 2009 Literary Awards Program. This week, we’ll be excerpting from the prologue and the first section of her entry, This One Last Thing. PROLOGUE Francie This was my boy. These are my girls. He, that man, is my...
