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To Love a Stranger is Certain Death by Brandon J. Choi

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To Love a Stranger is Certain Death by Brandon J. Choi

In the summer of 2006, when my hometown’s beloved Choi’s Videos went out of business, Mr. and Mrs. Choi decided to sell their inventory as a last-ditch effort before retiring and moving across the street from their eldest son in North Carolina

Impossible Tess by Kimm Brockett Stammen

Impossible Tess by Kimm Brockett Stammen

My wife’s sister plays all kinds of flutes. Metal and wood, tarnished and bright, silver, gold, a little painted thing made of tin, a slim jet-black cylinder made of stuff she calls grenadilla, and an antique glass one in a soft leather sachet that through all her traipsings stays miraculously unbroken.

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Sandhill Cranes by Anna Prawdzik Hull

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Sandhill Cranes by Anna Prawdzik Hull

Tía Consuelo, with her big mouth and big earrings and eighties perm, sits me down at the kitchen table and says, “I don’t want you to work for that puto.” By puto, she means Johnny González, owner of Speedy G Car Wash on San Mateo.

This Is My Body by April Vázquez (Nonfiction Winner)

This Is My Body by April Vázquez (Nonfiction Winner)

During my junior year of college, I was thumbing through a women’s magazine at the dentist’s office when I came across a love quiz containing the following question: “You know you’re in love with him because…”

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