Here are the excerpts moving on to the shortlist and for Judge Cynthia Pelayo’s review! Congratulations to the 15 writers on this list!
- Such Lovely Remains
- The Flame Inside
- The Forever Opposition
- A Fire at Valleyview Nursing Home
- The Doorknob Thief
- A letter from the outskirts of Hektaria
- 230 2nd Street, Fall River
- Homecoming
- Ladies’ Mechs
- Poetic Justice
- Married to the Manchu Prince
- Blood of the River Dragon
- My Song in the House of Night
- Woe Is She
- Hunting Season