1st Place **FINALIST** 'Where No One Belongs' by Adam Zang   SYNOPSIS - A teenage Japanese American girl and a white doctor struggle to adapt to life at a Japanese internment camp in Topaz, Utah. Sewing up old and new wounds is not easy in this unforgiving desert…  (Heat 19)

2nd Place  'The Ride of the King' by Bruno Zalubil   SYNOPSIS - A peasant girl is swept up in a moment of Medieval history when the tide of war washes unexpectedly over her region. Though her sartorial contribution to an historic escape failed to free her from the constraints of her life, her distinctive style is still part of the annual tradition of The Ride of the King, held every May in Vlcnov, Czech Republic.  (Heat 19)

3rd Place  'The Drinking Ladle' by Leighna Harrison   SYNOPSIS -  (Heat 19)

4th Place  'Panacea' by Anneke Schwob   SYNOPSIS - In the bloody wake of The Battle of Somme, Eileen finds among her patients a painful reminder of the past, her present, and the future as it might have been.  (Heat 19)

5th Place  'Needlework' by Jonathan Pinnock   SYNOPSIS - Emily Inskip has fallen on hard times since the death of her husband, a major in the British Army, and scrapes a living as a seamstress for the army during the Peninsular War. She encounters a brutal Captain who tries to force his attentions on her, but events conspire to provide her with the opportunity for revenge. (Heat 19)