Award Winners

Winner: “Blue Rose Buddha” • Marge Simon • The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)

2nd Place: “Closure” • Greer Woodward • Illumen Autumn 2011

3rd Place: “Snowflake galaxies” • G.O. Clark • microcosms October 9, 2011

Table of Contents

• “Adrift in the spacecraft”—Michael Arnzen, microcosms
• The albedo of angels”—Robert Borski, microcosms
• Alien Life—Pat Tompkins, Spaceports & Spidersilk, March 2011
• All folk have legends of her—David Kopaska-Merkel, Scifaikuest, May 2011
• “amidst the black churning …”—Jim Kacian, Roadrunner
• “anorexic girl”—John W. Sexton, Notes From The Gean, Vol. 3, No. 2, Sept. 2011
• Before Science Stepped In—Rod Usher, Eye to the Telescope, August 2011
• Blue Rose Buddha—Marge Simon, The Mad Hattery (Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2011)
• California Vamp—James S. Dorr, Vampires: A Retrospective (Sam’s Dot, 2011)
• Closure—Greer Woodward, Illumen, Autumn 2011
• “coal-dark tombstone”—George Swede, Roadrunner
• Containers—F.J. Bergmann, The Binnacle 2011
• Elemental—Cheryl Stiles, Goblin Fruit
• “Endlessly bitching when birds”—Aurelio Rico Lopez III, microcosms
• Eulogy—Alexandra Seidel, inkscrawl, Issue 2, Sept. 2011
• “first kiss”—Albert Schlaht, Scifaikuest
• Graffiti—Sonya Taaffe, Stone Telling 5, Sept. 2011
• “Graveside spell spoken”—Marsheila Rockwell, Halloween Haiku (Popcorn Press,
  2011)
• “Hallow’s Eve”—Greg Schwartz, Tales of the Talisman, Vol. 7, issue 2
• ‘Grey-eyed’—Emily Jiang, Goblin Fruit, Spring 2011
• Harvest—S. Brackett Robertson, Goblin Fruit, Fall 2011
• The Lives of The Stars—Meg Smith, Astropoetica
• “lunar base 5”—semi (Terrie Leigh Relf), Scifaikuest, Feb. 2011
• Macrocosmic Propagation —J.E. Stanley, Star*Line 34.4
• The Magic Walnut—Sofía Rhei (Lawrence Schimel tr.), Mythic Delirium 25
• Matinee Motel—Hollywood: Two Humans—dan smith, Sein und Werden 4-9-11
• “the more space”—Ann K. Schwader, Eye to the Telescope, Issue 1
• Necropsy—John R. Platt, Space & Time, Issue 115, Fall 2011
• “nearly Mars:—LeRoy Gorman, Scifaikuest
• “new colony”—Randy Brooks, Scifaikuest
• “night sky”—Dietmar Tauchner, Heron’s Nest, Vol. XIII, No. 4
• “particles decaying …”—Melissa Allen, Roadrunner
• “the perfect evening”—Julie Bloss Kelsey, Scifaikuest
• Protocol—F. J. Bergmann, Space & Time, Issue 115, Fall 2011
• Robespierre Had The Greenest Eyes—dan smith, Paper Crow, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2011
• The Robot Scientist’s Daughter [Polonium-210]—Jeannine Hall Gailey, The Journal, Spring/Summer 2011
• Rules for Playing Hide-and-Seek in a Cornfield—Jamie Wasserman, Niteblade,
  March 2011
• S E T I—LeRoy Gorman, Scifaikuest, Feb. 2011 online
• Snowflake galaxies—G. O. Clark, microcosms
• Song of the Machines—Anna Sykora, Star*Line 34.2
• Star Ghazal—Holly Jensen, The Ghazal Page: Astronomy Challenge
• Surreal Wish List—Bruce Boston, inkscrawl, Issue 1, June 2011
• Taking the Auspices—Sonya Taaffe, inkscrawl, Issue 2, Sept. 2011
• 10 things to know about staplers—Carolyn Clink, Star*Line 34.1, Jan.–Mar. 2011
• TiME to Go—Elizabeth Barrette, The Wordsmith’s Forge, 15 May 2011
• “The unborn gods stir …”—Kristine Ong Muslim, microcosms
• Unland, Unlife—Mike & Anita Allen, inkscrawl, Issue 1, June 2011
• Vanity—Juan Perez, Star*Line 34.1
• Voyages of the H.M.S. Whitechapel—Robert Borski, The Pedestal Magazine 64
• “wedding night”—Victor Piñeiro, Scifaikuest
• What Ray Told Me—Jenny Rossi, Strange Horizons 2 May 2011
• The World’s Scriptures—Gene Doty, Lynx XXVI, 3, October 2011