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  Winner: “The Daughter” by Joseph [J.F.] Williams.

  March 2013.

  Theme: rescue—of a character, object, or idea—from others, certain danger, boredom, oblivion, themselves.

  Requirements: the color green; ruins.

  Winner: “There’s No Sun Up in the Sky” by Sam Bellotto Jr.

  April 2013.

  Theme: revenge.

  Requirements: an element of fire; "the" may not be the first word.

  Winner: “Time of the Phoenix” by Carrol Fix.

  May 2013.

  Theme: a new invention.

  Requirements: fix, cat, eyeglasses.

  Winner: “Or Spins Back on the PERP” by Paula Friedman.

  June 2013.

  Theme: love—any form of love, between/among/for any entity/ies.

  Requirements: a contradiction, piano keys.

  Winner: “Finding Miss Emiline” by Sam Bellotto Jr.

  July 2013.

  Theme: “ripped from today's headlines”—a topic recently in the news.

  Requirements: summer, mosquito(es).

  Winner: “Summer Bites” by Joseph [J.F.] Williams.

  August 2013.

  Theme: noise.

  Requirements: a tooth or teeth, a (scientific) discovery.

  Winner: “Memory of Sound” by Carrol Fix.

  September 2013.

  Theme: humor.

  Requirment: story must take place in "outer space."

  Winner: “Deploying TRIsat” by Helmuth Kump.

  October 2013.

  Theme: deception—characters should be deceivers or the deceived, or both.

  Requirement: the element of fire.

  Winner: “Sighting” by Marianne G. Petrino.