Hey All,
Flag Day has come and gone, and this latest challenge has a winner: "Pleiku Jacket" (http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/jane-hammons/pleiku-jacket-2) by Jane Hammons. Congratulations Jane!
In second place came late entrant Michelle Elvy with her story "X" (quite excellent, go read: http://www.fictionaut.com/stories/michelle-elvy/x).
Challenge stories and reviews can still be found on the challenge page here: http://www.kevinmyrick.com/?page_id=2294
Thanks to all those who participated and gave me reviews to post (Susan Tepper, especially.)
Now onto another forum post about the next challenge.
-Kevin M.
Hey Kevin--I've said this before, but I'll say it again. Thanks for the challenge. I don't know that I would have written "Pleiku Jacket" otherwise. I'm happy to have written it and also that it got such warm response by readers here.
That is what's so great about these challenges. They seem to open up new avenues of adventure that may not necessarily come to us out of the blue.
Jane's mesmerizing "Pleiku Jacket" certainly supports that theory