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

The finalists for July were:

Mind Your Own by Bob Thurber
Aunt Peg by Jennifer L. Freed
White Elephant Sale on the Town Green by Matthew Eichenlaub
Once, and Forever by Angela Brett
At the Zoo by Scott Ragland

The winner of the July 2016 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Aunt Peg

Such an unassuming story about an unassuming character, and then you read it again, and again, and the poignancy grows. Don’t we all take Tomorrow for granted? A simple, powerful statement, told quietly and poetically in a tone that perfectly matches the message. Fantastic.