AUDIO

• First Place: "Clothes lines"
  "The prophetic slip of paper peaks through the folds. He remembers being pissed that Hunan House forgot it the last time he got takeout, but it must have fallen out of the bag."

• Second Place: "Slippage"
  '"I want to tell you something," she said. "I love you, Eli, but you are slippaging."'

• Third Place: "Surfacing"
  "He was writhing in her grasp, trying to slip his way out of his fuzzy backpack to return to the window and gaze out at opportunity and speed and desertion."

• The Judges: Collin Kelley
  Atlanta novelist, poet and playwright.

• The Judges: Laurah Nortton
  Lecturer of English at Georgia State University, and runs a literary journal, SUB-LIT

• The Judges: Joe Davich
  Assistant at the Georgia Center for the Book