FAMILY MATTERS

SEPTEMBER 2015

Top-25 Winners and Finalists​

1st-place winner:

S.P. MacIntyre for "Pinch"

2nd-place winner:

Christopher Bundy for "80,000,000"

3rd-place winner:

D.C. Lambert for "That Your Reality Is the Only Reality"

And the finalists, listed in alphabetical order:

Laura Birdsall for "2008"
Gary Dop for "Hambone"
E.B. Fitzsimons for "Rita Defender, Where Did You Go?"
Lisa Freedman for "Caught. Rain. Wings."
Walter Howerton for "Why I Haven’t Been at Work Lately"
Evan Kuhlman for "Ghost Trains"
Jessica Lilien for "The Pre-Teen’s Guide to Living Your Best First Life"
Thea Lim for "If You Start Breathing"
Aimee Liu for "Proof"
Tracy Marx for "Everything I Have Is Yours"
Lori Ostlund for "Are You Happy?"
Jill Poskanzer for "Snow Angels"
Julia Prendergast for "Bad Hat"
Edwin Rozic for "The Information Is Not Lost"
Patrick Ryan for "You Need Not Be Present to Win"
Pamela Ryder for "Interment for Yard & Garden: A Practical Guide"
Benjamin Soileau for "Detours"
Cady Vishniac for "Your Amesbury Month"
Mark Williams for "One Something Happy Family"
Mika Yamamoto for "The Things I Didn’t Know"
Chloe Zoellner for "Cereal"
Janna Zonder for "Who Kills the Bugs for the Dalai Lama?"

Honorable Mentions

Nancy Abeshaus for "Good Housekeeping"
Emily Baines for "The Royal We"
Ellie Berner for "Replacement Child"
Maria Black for "Toothwort"
Emily Blacker for "In Case of Just Such an Emergency"
Andrew Boden for "The Parts of Ourselves Without Names"
Marcia Bradley for "Cut into Three Parts"
Elise Brandenburg for "The Native Hue of Resolution"
Theodore Cohen for "Unforgiven"
Karlyn Coleman for "Orange Crush"
Kathy Conde for "One Clear Note"
Carrie Cook for "All the Things We Don’t Talk About"
Maddie Crum for "DeWitt, Texas"
John Davis for "64 Days to Find My Father"
Harjinder Dhillon for "A Simple Recipe for Daal"
George Fahey for "A Mortal’s Requiem"
Alex Filipowicz for "Scorched Earth"
Antonia Fraser Fujinaga for "Life Is Short, My Friend"
Janelle Garcia for "I Am the Best I Have Ever Been"
Colin Ginks for "The Angry Hat"
Ariel Goldenthal for "The Wendy"
Alexandra Grabbe for "The Pilgrimage"
Emory Harkins for "Nevada Tells Me"
Noy Holland for "Lake Effect"
Kevin Hopper for "Three Subconscious Days in January"
Sam Imperiale for "The Backside of Unemployment"
Joan Kaplan for "The Face in the Moon"
Meghan Kenny for "The Far News the Wind Has Brought"
Babette Levin for "Ted on His Own"
Elizabeth Love for "Thanksgiving"
LaTanya McQueen for "We Are All Already Gone"
Amanda McTigue for "The Helpfulness of Those Who Cannot Help"
Stephen Moran for "The Babby"
Isabella Moschen for "The Anchor"
Melanie Nead for "What Happened to Paul"
Ben Orlando for "Motel"
Michael Phillips for "The Pivot"
B.S.V. Prasad for "If There Be a Heaven on Earth"
Eric Schlich for "Night Thieves"
Abby Sewell for "Electricity"
Evelyn Sharenov for "Cleaning Up"
Jeff Shearer for "Tiny People"
Timothy Smith for "A Little Faith"
Avan Stallard for ‘Bastard’s Mercy"
Gerri Stanfield for "Altars"
John Vanzant Stevens for "Life with the Vales"
Julie Stewart for "9/12"
Phyllis Stewart-Ruffin for "Three Calls in April that Changed Everything"
Maryna Sullivan for "The Psychosis of Survival"
Anamyn Turowski for "How to Care for a Geranium"
Katy Van Sant for "Pop-Pop"
Madeline Vanden Branden for "Unavoidable Delays"
Siamak Vossoughi for "The History Room"
Kathryne Young for "Betrayal"
Nouri Zarrugh for "The Madmen"