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If your story is listed in the top 5 below, congratulations, you are among the 125 writers moving on to the 2nd Round kicking off at 11:59PM EDT this Thursday, April 11th!   Congratulations to everyone that submitted a story, narrowing down a top 5 in each heat was incredibly difficult and everyone should be proud for rising to the challenge and creating a story outside your comfort zone from scratch in 8 days.  We hope the challenge was inspiring and hope to see you in our next challenge!

#1 'Screwed' by Elizabeth Spencer SYNOPSIS - You take a girl well on her way to being a bad woman and give her a chance to be an honest woman and eight years later this is what you get: a middle class home, two great kids, and a wife so busy banging your kingdom's magic wielding, dragon slaying savior that she's forgotten all of it.

#2 'Manipulation' by Michelle Jordan SYNOPSIS - Orson is a talented but depressed Object Manipulator determined to win back his fiery ex-wife after a lonely year without her. In a world where time travel and manipulation is an expensive and well-regulated business, Orson finds himself with an unexpected opportunity to change his past and his present for the better, or at least get a decent piece of toast.

#3 'The Bridgemaker's Wife' by Chris Bridges SYNOPSIS - Aladriel has an impossible task before him: he must build all the paths from Fairyland to the world of men before the Earth finishes cooling. It is an overwhelming task that might cost him his life, so it's a particularly bad time for his wife to leave him.

#4 'The Old Place' by Robert Guizio SYNOPSIS - Martin believes his only chance to bring back his lost family is to rebuild their old house, brick by brick. But when his loved ones actually return, Martin must change or be doomed to repeat his past mistakes.

#5 'Divorcing Reality' by Jeanette Issa SYNOPSIS - A construction worker tries to dissuade his wife from continuing to love him in order to break a magical covenant that binds their marriage so that he can finally be with his mistress in another realm.

#Honorable Mention 'Degrees of Seperation' by Elizabeth SYNOPSIS - As seemingly the last man and woman on a fantasy world, the couple struggle with the necessary emotional bonding needed to continue the human race. With their 'duty' of constructing a new world underway with Anne's pregnancy they struggle to divorce the past in order to successfully move towards a future.

#Honorable Mention 'Divide or Squander' by Claire Stone SYNOPSIS - Miranda's parents bitter and public divorce showdown took everything away from her, except her self-belief.

#Honorable Mention 'White Ink' by Cassandra Sims Knight SYNOPSIS - Seeking to escape her parents’ painful divorce, Miranda finds a book that is a portal to another world and gets trapped in its pages.

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