First Prize
Amy Purcell (Kent, OH)
"Home Repair"

Second Prize
Douglas Fetterly (Honolulu, HI)
"They Smell Like Horses"

Third Prize
Paul Weidknecht (Phillipsburg, NJ)
"Her Piece of the Yard" 

Amy Purcell’s winning story will appear in an upcoming issue of The Writer magazine, and all three winning stories are now available on WriterMag.com, please see links below. 

2012 SHORT-STORY FINALISTS
(Listed alphabetically)

Hannah Andrade (Atascadero, CA) - "The Sheared"
Elizabeth Bragg (New York, NY) - "Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest"
Jessica D'Agostino (Lake Worth, FL) - "Changing Footprints in the Sand"
Douglas Fetterly (Honolulu, HI) - "They Smell Like Horses"
Walter Goralski (Phoenix, AZ) - "Look Inside a Man"
Norm Hamilton (Whitehorse, YT, Canada) - "Embrace"
Harry Harrison, Jr. (Auburn, WA) - "Do Unto Others"
Edward Iannuccilli (Bristol, RI) - "First Date"
Arthur Gerard Insana (Woodland Hills, CA) - "Numbers"
Patty Mayeux (Houston, TX) - "Antique Road Show"
Amy Mitby (Mountain View, CA) - "Eyes of the Beholder"
Eva Lesko Natiello (Westfield, NJ) - "The Wordsmith"
Amy Purcell (Kent, OH) - "Home Repair"
Meena Radhakrishnan (Ashurn, VA) - "The Funeral"
Tyler Rhode (Blue Bell, PA) - "Now You See Me ... "
JackRobert Staff (Sandpoint, ID) - "A Foolish Old Mule"
Wayne Tedder (Brampton, ON, Canada) - "Someone Else's Lunch"
Paul Weidknecht (Phillipsburg, NJ) - "Her Piece of the Yard"
Mickie Wiggins (Odenville, AL) - "The Domino Theory"
Ethan Yarbrough (Bothell, WA) - "Flight"