1st Place **FINALIST** 'Whiff of Infidelity' by Paige Varney   SYNOPSIS - Upon returning home from a trip, a woman notices that her husband, who is physically unable to do laundry, smells like a detergent she does not use. She spends her first night back, while he sleeps, trying to determine who the mystery laundress is.  (Heat 29)

2nd Place **FINALIST** 'Edna and Harold Fitzgerald' by Lea Calderon-Guthe   SYNOPSIS - Edna and Harold Fitzgerald are a married couple in their eighties: Edna is slightly senile and Harold is slightly deaf with a mild obsession for model trains. Edna buys Harold a new red steam engine for his birthday one year, but six months later realizes it has broken up the previously perfect harmony of their marriage, and so takes revenge. (Heat 29)

3rd Place  'Fresh Cherples' by brian lance   SYNOPSIS - A strange and untold love affair perseveres against severe adversity to create many generations of new trees. (Heat 29)

4th Place  'Of Tea, Dye, and Vogue' by Christopher Casey   SYNOPSIS - Samuel Kensington finds annoyance and amour in a trendy café.  (Heat 29)

5th Place  'Nursing It' by Jessica Maloney   SYNOPSIS - A chronically heartbroken nurse encounters an ex-boyfriend at the bedside of one of her patients. Consumed with jealousy, the nurse struggles mightily in her efforts to sabotage the bedridden rival and recover a missed opportunity at love. (Heat 29)