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

The finalists for April were:

The Stink of a Lifetime by Bob Thurber
Terror by Viv Burgess
The Shrimp Farmer by Alexandra Keister
First Luncheon in a New City by Lynette Hinnings-Marshall

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

The Shrimp Farmer

Alexandra was able to tell so much story in so little space, packing a ton of character development and implied backstory into every sentence. Fantastic, chilling work!