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Armstrong by Bill Bailey |
Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus |
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Gabe Morales |
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Face
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With a blowtorch, an S-shaped piece of sheet metal, and a jug of whiskey, his latest project—a two-story Tyrannosaurus Rex commissioned by the Nashville Zoo for their dinosaur exhibit—quickly became so large that he tore the roof off the garage in order to weld the two-hundred pound head onto the rest of the body, and he would spend days at a time in that garage, armed only with a thermos of tomato soup and his whiskey, filing down small chunks of metal into perfect sized Tyrannosaurus teeth, every so often dropping one misshapen fragment into a discarded pile that sat there, ashamed, characters of an unknown alphabet. Forgotten blueprints were scattered on a small desk: blueprints for football players, airplanes, presidents, revolutionaries and dinosaurs, all nestled between a radio used in the summer to broadcast Atlanta Braves games and a dozen half eaten ham sandwiches. He stopped working in his garage when his son was born, but returned shortly after with plans for a revamped spine that would support more weight, and by this time the Nashville Zoo had long canceled their order for “One Tyrannosaurus Rex”, but he worked on, trying to get the proportion of the arms just right, and many mornings as early as four a.m. his garage would be lit up with the throbbing of heated steel and the neon orange glow of the blowtorch, and its hissing—the pained roar of a wounded Tyrannosaurus—would drown out Dragnet on the television in his house where his wife spent most of her time drinking and trying her hardest to forget all about the goddamn dinosaur. | |
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Chang
Wei's Mistake by Mary Charles |
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Zas
Tannhauser by Jeff Clarke |
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The
Secret Life of Sandi Beech by Victoria Cole |
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The
Only Way by Kevin Colpean |
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The
Collection by Jim Elliot |
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The
Last Strip by Crystal Evans |
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Sunday
Morning by Jesiah L. Foltz |
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Kitten
Blue by Wes Heid |
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The
Hurricane by Jennifer Jordon |
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A
Wake for Change by Amie Keller |
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The
Dinner Party by Megan Liscomb |
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Spinning
Like a Button on the Outhouse Door by Jack Mawhinney |
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Bad
Weather by Emily Miller |
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The
Seagull by Brendan Mitchell |
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Lessons
to Hold Onto by Adam Morales |
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Sic
Semper Tyrannosaurus by Gabe Morales |
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See-Saw by Lisa Morford |
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Mr.
Rockwell’s Clock by John Ray First Place Winner, Fiction |
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Thurston's
Haze by Kelsey Rothenay |
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Coyote
Shivers by Fallon Rusing |
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Inhaling
Thrills by Alexandra Ryan |
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Famous
Last Words by Matt Schnarr |
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Learning
to Inhale Solids by Brittney Steele Second Place Winner, Fiction |
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Moonlight/Magnolias by Nolan Turner Editor’s Choice, Fiction |
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How
to Become a Supervillian by Philip Wright |
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A
Peon’s Holiday by Ingebritt Ziegler |