Award Winners

Winner: "Fireflies" by Geoffrey A. Landis

2nd Place: "the leaf whisperer" by Elizabeth Barrette

3rd Place: "Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff" by Jane Yolen

Table of Contents

• Dark Flow • Francis W. Alexander • Abyss & Apex 28, 2008.
• "the will-o-the-wisp..." • Francis W. Alexander • Scifaikuest, August 2008, online.
• Return of the Zombie Teen Angst • Mike Allen • Asimov's Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2008.
• "time machine rust" • Megan Arkenberg • Scifaikuest, Aug 2008, print.
• The Ghoul • Megan Arkenberg • Scifaikuest, Nov 2008, print.
• the leaf whisperer • Elizabeth Barrette • Doorways Magazine 5, 2008.
• "stars against the night ..." • Bruce Boston • SARM, 2008.
• Three Things • Lisa M. Bradley • Talebones, Winter 2008.
• Godmother • Anna Marie Catoir • Goblin Fruit, Spring 2008.
• "I felt your presence" • Margaret Chula • Ribbons, Winter 2008.
• Special ears • Toi Dericotte • Prairie Schooner, Fall 2008.
• Evolution • Peg Duthie • SciFi Fan 2, April 2008.
• "time lapse" • Margarita Engle • Scifaikuest, August 2008, online.
• Songs were washing up • Francesca Forrest • Cabinet des Fées: Scheherazade's Bequest 6, Sept. 2008.
• Mistress (1) • Todd Fredson • Blackbird 7.2, Fall 2008.
• "shot of whiskey" • Joshua Gage • SpaceWesterns.com, 2008.
• "stars invisible" • Joshua Gage • Mindflights, November 2008.
• The Tongue-Cut Sparrow's Song for the Woodsman's Wife • Jeannine Hall Gailey • Poemeleon, Summer 2008.
• The Lure of an Older Woman • Toni J. Gardner • Amaze: The Cinquain Journal, 6.2, 2008.
• "quantum mechanics" • James Gianforti • Star*Line 31.4, July/Aug 2008.
• "trying to imitate" • Sanford Goldstein • Simply Haiku, Winter 2008.
• Study/Violet • Leonard Gonatarek • Prick of the Spindle, Vol 2.3, Sept. 2008.
• "full moon" • John Grey • Scifaikuest, November 2008, print.
• "sailor's ear" • M. Kei • "The Sailor's Ear," Bolts of Silk 2/1/08.
• "the dead rise" • M. Kei • Slow Motion: The Log of a Chesapeake Bay Skipjack, 2008.
• "moonless world" • Patricia Kelly • SciFi Fan 2, April 2008.
• "just as I" • Mariko Kitakubo (translated by Amelia Fielden) • Cicada Forest (Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008).
• "lest we stray" • Mariko Kitakubo (translated by Amelia Fielden) • Cicada Forest (Kadokawa Gakugei Shupan Ltd, 2008).
• "in spite of your absence ..." • Deborah P Kolodji • SARM, 2008.
• Fireflies • Geoffrey A. Landis • Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2008.
• "thin alpine air" • paul m • Acorn, Fall 2008.
• "winter plum branches" • paul m • Mariposa 19, Autumn/Winter 2008.
• Werepenguin • Joanne Merriam • Strange Horizons, March 10, 2008.
• "on the footpath" • Linda Papanicolaou • Ribbons, Autumn 2008.
• "falling stars" • Claudia Coutu Radmore • Eucalypt 5, 2008.
• There, where the universe begins • Terrie Leigh Relf • Astropoetica 6.2, Spring 2008.
• "one foot on Mars" • Karen A. Romanko • Scifaikuest, Feb 2008, print.
• "in the mouth" • Ann K. Schwader • Scifaikuest, November 2008, print.
• Sunset, Monument Valley, Utah • J.E. Stanley • Scifaikuest, November 2008, print.
• "dark moon" • Maria Steyn • Simply Haiku, Spring 2008.
• "from outer space" • George Swede • Ribbons, Winter 2008.
• "strange voices" • Dietmar Tauchner • Frogpond 21.1, 2008.
• Refugee • Paul Kareem Tayyer • Pearl 39, Fall/Winter 2008.
• "closer to the moongate" • Linda Jeannette Ward • Hummingbird, September 2008.
• "wet sand" • Michael Dylan Welch • Scifaikuest, August 2008, online.
• In the Beginning or the End • N.C. Whitehead • Scifaikuest, May 2008, print.
• 2062 • Stephen M. Wilson • Star*Line, March/April 2008.
• The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight • Charles Wright • Fiddlehead, Summer 2008.
• Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff • Jane Yolen • Asimov's Science Fiction, Oct/Nov 2008.
• "we all met ..." • Lee Clarke Zumpe • Scifaikuest, May 2008 print.