Sarah Simon, "Love Broke My Skull." Zed Payne, "Dude Egg." Avneet Johal, "Flying to a New Destination."

Jon Beasley-Murray, "Derek's Top Picks." Johnny Scoop, "The World's First Typo." JP Lorence, "The Story."

Erin Meehakopp, "Death at the Hairdresser." Torsten Schoeneberg, "Brenda Craigdarroch and the Dishwasher." Jeff Rotin, "The Carry-On Bag."

The winners of our first short story contest.

Third place: Evan Guilford-Blake, "Balloon." Second: Kelly Ellis, "Let's Put This in Perspective." First: E.E. King, "In the Hood."

Three honorable mentions from our recent short story contest.

Joe Baumann, "Tasters." Eloise Eaton, "Hip Hop." Yulia Aleynakova, "When Devil Meets the Chef."

Rob Boffard, "Hippo Attack." Mike Funergy, "Poor Little Creature." Bryant Ross, "The Deer."

Ruth de la Giroday, "Spider Saviour." JP, "A Couple of Letters." Susan Cormier, "A Throne for Your Heaven."

Zed Payne "Ta Ta Tatas." Sadie Graham, "Night Terror." Leslie Stark, "Not Everything Happens for a Reason."

Gregory Travers, "Rachel Mews." Vance Voyles, "Pickney Love." Salman Jafar, "Photograph."

Alix Born, "Sperm Runner." Susan Cormier, "Dirty." Karen Schauber, "The Sad Misfortune of Naive Catalina and her Sinister Grandmother."