Winner of the 2011 Bulwyer-Lytton Fiction Contest

“Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.”

— Sue Fondrie, Oshkosh, associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Runner-Up:

“As I stood among the ransacked ruin that had been my home, surveying the aftermath of the senseless horrors and atrocities that had been perpetrated on my family and everything I hold dear, I swore to myself that no matter where I had to go, no matter what I had to do or endure, I would find the man who did this … and when I did, when I did, oh, there would be words.” 

— Rodney Reed, Ooltewah, Tennessee

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