Congratulations to the writers of these 39 speculative stories! We’ll be back shortly with our shortlist! We can’t wait to see what Judge Tara Campbell chooses from the upcoming shortlist!
- Field with Dogs (in the Afterlife)
- Like Prey
- Naming the Cat
- A Thousand Dianes
- Short Story: A Confessional
- Marked
- All and Sundry
- Of Souls & Forests
- Crow
- Sweetie Come Brush Me
- Satan Is in a Highchair and All My Friends Are in the Wings
- Stones that Speak the Language of Trees
- Rosa
- There Is No Litigation In Fairy-Land
- A Lamb, Rising
- It Ends in Sand
- Supporting Facts
- The Boys on VIP Table 3
- Sarah K’s Green Escape
- Franklin Luggage Warehouse
- Fireworks at Dusk
- Exiled Flamingos
- Or the Highway
- Everything Inside Must One Day Be Outside, Too; Or The Dump
- Our man passes through
- A Sunset Like This
- if you go down to the woods today
- You Can Tell by Looking at Her
- Horizons
- Night Is Young
- The Marvelous Daisy-Sue, Every Sunday After Church
- The otherworlds
- The Ox and the Magpies
- Gravity on Ghosts
- The Yard
- Céline and the Sea Creatures
- A Man Will Come
- Universal
- Color of Love