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Thank you to everyone who read the finalists in this year’s contest. We love sharing these pieces with you! It's wonderful to see voters...

Thank you for joining us for the contest! Each year, we give out a small cash prize to the writer of the audience’s favorite piece. To...

Listen to this piece on our podcast Nine Sunsets “This doesn’t look like a picture. And it doesn’t look like a God. It is a sunset, and...

Listen to this piece on our podcast Future Genealogists To my descendants that wish to know me. The answer is No. The journals will...

Listen to this piece on our podcast The Cost We had been married three months when I turned to my husband and told him we should have a...

Listen to this piece on our podcast Antelife Death smells the freshest at two in the afternoon, just after the embalming, when you can...

Listen to this piece on our podcast Creature from the Back Lagoon The clatter of roller coasters, the screams of the crowd, the patter of...

Listen to this piece on our podcast Earthworm Lore In the lore of the nightcrawler and red wriggler, it’s said that, when Jesus knelt and...

Listen to this piece on our podcast A Young Mother’s Sacrament It is all I can do to just sit And rock, Holding the baby, Feeling the...

Listen to this piece on our podcast The Pear Tree Pity there was no ceremony for the lobe of lung they took the teeth all pulled, the...