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Top 5 Stories

The top 5 stories are listed below!  Congratulations to everyone that rose to the challenge this year, there were so many great stories and narrowing down the top 5 was incredibly difficult. Good luck to the 5 writers below that will be participating against 120 other writers in the 2nd Round kicking off tonight at 11:59PM ET!

#1 'Head over Heels' by Geoff Hahn SYNOPSIS - The Hall of Mirrors designer of a circus tries to impress a lost girl.

#2 'Lilly's Promise' by Melissa Potocki SYNOPSIS - A 25 year romance ends in a battle lost to cancer. In order for Lilly to continue on alone, the voice of Mack tells a story of a simple carpenter and circus acrobat, reminding Lilly of the amazing strength she has.

#3 'If I Had A Hammer' by Sandy George SYNOPSIS - A carpenter, a cop and a clairvoyant prove that fate and love work hand in hand with no rhyme, reason or timeline.

#4 'The Roving Canopy' by Michael Magaha SYNOPSIS - An unmoving circus hidden in the vastness of the great American wasteland is what an old carpenter stumbles upon late in his travels and seventy years after the fall of society he finds a lost treasure. Our carpenter finds a beating heart within this circus, the Roving Canopy.

#5 'Zeus' by Kristen D. Cunningham SYNOPSIS - Finn now prefers dust over glitter and his wife Katherine wonders what happened to man she married.
 

Group Participants

Heat	Last Name	First Name	City	State / Province	Country
2	ALUSHI	AILDA	Astoria	NY	US
2	Barclay	Nadine	Bethesda	MD	US
2	Brown	Salvatore	Taishan	Taipei Hsien	TW
2	Brydges	Patricia	Pickering	ON	CA
2	Cunningham	Kristen	Brooklyn	NY	US
2	Dunham	Victoria	Austin	TX	US
2	Dykman	Korey	Puyallup	WA	US
2	Gelber	Ethan	Brooklyn	NY	US
2	George	Sandy	West Bloomfield	MI	US
2	Hahn	Geoff	Atlanta	GA	US
2	Head	Ruston	tampa	FL	US
2	Kinzer	Muddy	Sammamish	WA	US
2	Magaha	Michael	Pasadena	MD	US
2	May	Annabelle	Montreal	QC	CA
2	McShane	James	Dublin		IE
2	Meybohm	Wilfried	Lake City	SC	US
2	Nagel	William	CHICAGO	IL	US
2	Nial	Maree	Logan city	QLD	AU
2	Otto	Barbara	Oceanside	CA	US
2	Pedersen	Julie	Chicago	IL	US
2	Potocki	Melissa	Stevens Point	WI	US
2	Robinson	Teri	New York	NY	US
2	Schifano	Marc	Peoria	AZ	US
2	Steen	Sharon	Arlington	VA	US
2	Triola	Antoinette	Bedford	NH	US