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Three-Minute Fiction: The Round 11 Winner Is ...()
June 9, 2013 After sifting through thousands of submissions for our short-story contest, we have found a winner. This round, guest judge Karen Russell asked you to write a story in which a character finds something he or she has no intention of returning.
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Three-Minute Fiction: 'Reborn'()
June 9, 2013 At the Reborn Convention at the Creektown Holiday Inn, the women mill and mingle, fawn over mohair follicles, blue-blotched underpainting, voice-boxes uploaded with found sound. Distant crying. Summer afternoon nap meltdowns.
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Three-Minute Fiction: Beyond The Fence()
June 8, 2013 The love of his life had been married for five years before he met her, and dead for five days before he'd found out. Clandestine lovers weren't notified in the event of a tragedy.
Three-Minute Fiction Reading: 'Beyond The Fence'()
June 8, 2013 NPR's Bob Mondello reads an excerpt of one of the best submissions for Round 11 of our short story contest. He reads Beyond the Fence by Matthew Campbell of Salem, Mass.
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Three-Minute Fiction: The Pomelo()
June 8, 2013 The man was so beautiful. He appeared to be stepping out of the ad on the side of the bus, his hair illuminated in sun. Amelia saw the little slip of paper burst from his pocket when he pulled out his keys. It flipped in the air once, twice before it caught against the cement stairs right in front of her.
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Three-Minute Fiction: Picked Clean()
June 7, 2013 She found her brother's finger in the grass by the shed. The grass glistened with the morning dew, but the finger did not.
