1st Place **FINALIST** 'Communications Breakdown' by Jacob Mendelsohn   SYNOPSIS - A text-messaging obsessed Manhattanite undergoes a procedure to have internet-capabilities implanted in her brain. The results are not as expected. (Heat 16)

2nd Place  'NTRPY' by Melissa Tomjanovich   SYNOPSIS - Three old friends attend a funeral and a bar. (Heat 16)

3rd Place  'When Tragedies Were Beautiful' by Dre Carlan-Cojocar   SYNOPSIS - When Dorothy does the unpredictable and texts her crush - a world of worry and anxiety plagues our heroine, the way only adolescence could provide. (Heat 16)

4th Place  'UR WSH=MY CMD' by Troy Smith   SYNOPSIS - What if you got the opportunity to have anything you could dream of—if only you could fit that dream into 160 characters or less? Barry Black quickly finds out that having your own personal genie isn't all it's cracked up to be in the digital age. (Heat 16)

5th Place  'The Drink I Needed' by Joseph Baleto   SYNOPSIS -  (Heat 16)