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Our finalists for the 2016 !Short Story Contest! are announced

Meet the Finalists

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We are equally honored to announce a new Judge for defenestrationism.net contests:

D.E.B. studied history at Bowdoin College, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Yale University.  After a decade as an historian with the federal government, he changed careers, first with a job as a boat rigger on Long Island Sound and later serving as chief of staff to a Maryland state legislator.  His literary interests incline toward Lincoln’s writings and the King James translation of the Hebrew Scriptures.  He reads Moby Dick every few years to scrub the barnacles off his brain.

Meet the rest of our Judge Panel

!What’s New!

Bonafides and Circulation

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June 19th: One-Legged Goose by Michael Lee Johnson

June 26th: Iranian Poetry Lady by Michael Lee Johnson

July 3rd: On the Outskirts of Civilization by James

July 10th- August 14th: 2016 !Short Story Contest!

August 15th-September 4th: Fan Voting for Contest

September 5th: Winners announced

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Welcome to Defenestrationism reality: where Angels and Mama Bears eat blueberries, Fairy Godmothers operate an Assistance Bureau, where youthful Trolls have excellent manners, and Bullies run away crying.

And we have a Demon.

With its final post last week,

Complex Fairy Tales

has finished it’s publication run.

!And what a run it has been!

From the first week we began posting till today, we have received 5,430 hits from 1,006 Unique IPs.

20 stories by 16 authors: many widely published, some published for the first time, here.

Finally, most wonderfully, we are pleased to nominate three stories for the 2017 Pushcart Prize.

So massive congratulations to:

Joy by Freya Jackson

the Witch and the Fool by Emily Swaim

and

Song of Cities by Maggie Kast

!BEST OF LUCK!

So goodnight, Complex Fairy Tale readers,

and remember us next time.

(we have a demon)

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Since the first weekend we began posting

Complex Fairy Tales

we have received 390+ unique IP addresses

and over 2,000 hits,

with 112 more newsletter subscribers.

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And keep surfing through every week,

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A joyous Martin Luther King Day to one and all.

We’ve reached the end of another wonderful contest at defenestrationism.net — with some of the strongest writing of all the six contests we’ve sponsored.

Our SlimStats show

2,318 page views from

377 unique IP addresses.

!That’s a lot of traffic!

And now, the winners…

We begin with the Fan Vote:

with 62.2% of the Grand Prize votes: In the Realms of Light and Darkness

and with 40.4% of the Runner-up votes: In the Realms of Light and Darkness

and with 29.7% of the Runner-up votes: three bodies

(we allow fans to vote for two Runner-ups for exactly this reason, the fan vote Grand Prize winner often wins the Runner-up fan vote, as well)

And, drum-roll please…

by four-Judge panel plus fan voting,

the 2016 FLASH SUITE Contest

Runner-up is,

Before the Shooting: five portraits

by Paul Lewellan

and the defenestrationism.net 2016 FLASH SUITE Contest

Grand Prize winner is,

In the Realms of Light and Darkness: eight letters from war

by Evan Guilford-Blake

We are almost, if not equally pleased to have nominated three of our FLASH SUITE pieces for the

Best Small Fictions Compilation from Queens Ferry Press.

The compilation reviews pieces under 1,000 words, published in 2015, so even further congratulations to

Before the Shooting: five portraits: #1 Bob Bader by Paul Lewellan

The Belvedere: Iquitos by Geoffrey Miller

and

In the Realms of Light and Darkness: Eight Letters from War: 2. YASMINA by Evan Guilford-Blake

–Authors, look for results from those nominations in the Spring.

Congratulations to all our finalists, and

be sure to keep surfing through for our weekly posts, including

Complex Fairy Tales

such as

Brucie the Tiniest Shark

view How the Judges Voted

read all our finalists’ FLASH SUITES

meet the finalists

Winter Posting Schedule

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Well, all the judge votes are in, and

fan voting is now closed.

Keep surfing through, as we announce winners for the

2016 FLASH SUITE Contest

only on

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later today!

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HURRY!

HURRY!

!Fan voting ends today!

The second Runner-up vote is now a matter of less than thirty votes,

so vote here

for the 2016 FLASH SUITE Contest, only at

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Welcome, or welcome back, to

defenestrationism.net

Fan voting continues for the

2016 FLASH SUITE Contest.

We are pleased to return to weekly posting, with:

“Clockmaker”, by Michael Lee Johnson

“Life is-Transition”, by Michael Lee Johnson

followed by

Complex Fairy Tales

and more from

And Her Name was Morphine, by Ricki Scheirs, as read by Steve Garland.

Thank you for your interest in defenestrationism.net ,

!Keep surfing through!

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Well, no terror in the Western Hemisphere on our National feast to give thanks for.

I’ll take 12 steps to that.  Giving Thanks takes one’s consciousness out of greedy selfhood, into humble gratitude.

We know the holidays are a great time for poetry and literature, enjoy surfing our complete and ongoing from the retro navigation panel, left, especially our flagship publication, the Art of Throwing People out Windows .

Be well, if well is what you wanna be

–Paul-Newell Reaves

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EVERY SUNDAY NIGHT surf through

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for

October and November:

And Her Name was Morphine

Steve Garland reads the works of Ricki Shiers.

December:

FLASH SUITE Contest

What is a Flash Suite, you may ask?

How we Judge

January:

Complex Fairy Tales

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