Grand Prize Winner: “Artistic” Category

“Summer camp, backyard, or wherever; who’s camped overnight in a tent?”

A virtual forest of hands sprang up in the crowded classroom. After hesitating briefly, the foreign exchange student raised her hand, as well.

“You’ve stayed in a tent?” Mrs. Saunders asked her.

“Yes,” Maria said.

“When?”

“After the earthquake.”

John H. Dromey has had a short story published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, a mini-mystery in Woman’s World, plus fiction online at Liquid Imagination, Mysterical-E, and elsewhere.