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

The finalists for April were:

Canned Laughter by Daniel DiFranco
Window Shopper by Susan Gale Wickes
To Err is Human by Munira Sayyid
Just a slight increase by M.K. Vinne

The winner of the April 2017 Story of the Month, and the $10 prize, is…

Window Shopper

The story is well crafted, with a strong parallelism and effective emotional hooks.