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on the Short Story Challenge 2008

HEAT 6   [ ALL  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14 ]

GENRE - Suspense

SUBJECT - A Voicemail Message

The awards are listed below!  Congratulations to all of the writers for rising to the challenge and good luck to the Finalists moving on to the 2nd Round of the competition!

 

	''Purgatory'' by Janna Elphinstone - A mother seeks closure to her daughter's disappearance.  (Heat Winner Finalist)
	''Four Days in Winter'' by Carl Gough - Paul's empty existence is focused solely through the binocular lenses at the beautiful woman across the street. Until one day when a message from a stranger stirs him back to life, with devastating results.   (1st Runner-Up Finalist)
	''The Last Message'' by David Perez - An unsuccessful forty-one-year old awakes from another drunken stupor, only to find a bizarre voicemail message he left for himself the previous night and a dead woman in his bathroom.  (2nd Runner-Up )
	''Fucking Ernest Hemingway'' by Billy Maddox - All chat and no sex makes Jack's wife a real bitch.  (3rd Runner-Up )
	''Jack.'' by Frank Calabro - When pleasure is just a phone call away, a predator finds new ways to stalk its prey.  One thing his 19th century counterpart never had to deal with was the likes of the modern day victim.  (4th Runner-Up )