Robert Giron
2021 Short Story Contest Winner
My Pompeii by Leah Eichler “Is Betty Simkovits your maiden name? Do you know a Bayla Simkovits? Her brother was Dovid.” The text came in...
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Robert Giron
- Nov 29, 2021
2020 Short Story Contest Winner
Jackson Heights by Vikram Ramakrishnan The man hated the cold. That he forgot his beanie at the woman’s apartment annoyed him. After they...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 19, 2021
2019 Short Story Contest Winner
Efimera by A. J. Rodriguez Tío Albert’s hand on my shoulder wakes me from the haze of the nap I’d fallen into. My ass is parked on a...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 18, 2021
2018 Short Story Contest Winner
The Resistence by Joan G. Gurfield France. February, 1943 The train lurched to a start. Vivvie grabbed onto the seat and then settled...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 17, 2021
2017 Short Story Contest Winner
More Cousin's Club Than Country by Rochelle Distelheim Jerusalem My friend lost her hair many years before I lost my country. In both...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 16, 2021
2016 Short Story Contest Winner
Pidgin by Elaine C. Ray Our youngest daughter, 10-year-old Desiree, comes into the bedroom, urinal in hand. "Good morning, Daddy" she...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 15, 2021
2015 Short Story Contest Winner
The Constellation of Scorpio by Julyan Peard The Constellation of Scorpio by Julyan Peard. I. Frances Serena Huxtable San Esteban...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 14, 2021
2014 Short Story Contest Winner
Linkage by Steven J. Cahill Harlan never knew what his brother had under the hood. Always something new. Hotter plugs. Bigger carburetor...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 13, 2021
2013 Short Story Contest Winner
All the Obvious Reasons by Lynn Stegner What you heard were the hooves of the three horses with the mule at the end clattering through...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 12, 2021
2012 Short Story Contest Winner
Void by Karenmary Penn Iris returned from work to discover her husband Cropper, still dressed in his brown uniform, sitting in the...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 11, 2021
2011 Short Story Contest Winner
The Music She Will Never Hear by Kristin FitzPatrick On the way to the mine, the historian lets Jace control the radio, if there are any...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 10, 2021
2010 Short Story Contest Winner
Fat Tails by Daniel Degnan One by one I grab the salmon as they wriggle, spit, hiss – some with fins ripped off from their struggle in...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 9, 2021
2009 Short Story Contest Winner
I-95 Southbound by Perry Glasser The day starts bad, then gets worse. Who should be surprised? Not yet 7:00 AM, too far from home, Geist...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 8, 2021
2008 Short Story Contest Winner
Water by Tin Johnston She was a good sleeper, a dependable sleeper, but that night Charlotte woke up with her heart whumping, like a...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 7, 2021
2007 Short Story Contest Winner
Better Times by Mark Wisniewski There were at least thirty hornets in my medicine chest, which my landlord insisted I keep closed until...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 6, 2021
2006 Short Story Contest Winner
Harvest Cycle by Marie Holmes Cassie found her announcement one day on the medical students’ board. It was the first flier of hundreds...
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Robert Giron
- Jan 5, 2021
2005 Short Story Contest Winner
On the Verge by Tim Mullaney “Do they really drink blood?” Ethan’s lip curls as he asks the question, as if to indicate he already...
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- Jan 4, 2021
2004 Short Story Contest Winner
Legacy by Iqbal Pittalwala Thirteen years after he became a widower, the father decided, at age sixty-eight, to remarry. The wedding in...
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