The Story of the Month is chosen from the Story of the Week winners announced from the past month.

The finalists for April were:

Note Left on a Car in a Grocery Story Parking Lot by Cynthia Franks
Duplicitous Haunts by Sarah Scott
The Things We Preserve by Bob Thurber
Smaller Than You by Mark Farley

The winner of the April 2015 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Note Left on a Car in a Grocery Story Parking Lot

Congratulations, Cynthia! What a poignant character exploration. Excellent work!