Andy Edge

Judges’ Choice Award

In Care Of

Ember & Vine Fiction Anthology

A story about what’s left when the person you love is gone. The anger you carry for them, the hope they never saw answered, and how far you’ll go to answer it for them anyway.

Mr. Vickery

Fun in the Dark #3, Small Town Weirdness

The president of a small subdivision’s homeowners association has dealt with problem neighbors before. The new man at 4412 Willow Bend won’t stop hanging wind chimes, and the neighbors have stopped asking how it will be handled and started asking when.

Ezra

Ossuary No. 13

A story about the dead who don’t stay where we leave them. Two brothers in a holler, the cousin the mine took from them, and what loneliness turns into when it’s had three years in the dark to grow.