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twenty-minute-stories

April 26, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Grand Prize Winner: Untitled

by David Kennerly
April 25, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Second-Place Winner: Goodbye Ernie Flynn

by Wendy Molyneux
April 24, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Third-Place Winner: Kimball Drives Home

by Peter Ward Brown
April 23, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Third-Place Winner: Untitled

by Mickey Hess
April 22, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Editor’s Note on the 20-Minute Stories Contest

by David Daley
April 13, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: I Thought

by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
April 7, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Ficcione

by Grant Bailie
March 30, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: Car

by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
March 29, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: A Door

by Padraic Duffy
March 22, 2004

Twenty-Minute Stories: What I Know of Your Country

by John Leary

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