1996 Nominated Stories

AfterNoon

• "Book of Lazarus," Dick Grossman

• "Burying Grandma Mugwump," Doug Rice

• "The Flannel Bomb," David Kushner

• "The House," Henry Rasof

• "Post-Adolescence," Susan Shapiro

• "This Quintessence of Your Blood," Eugene Thacker

• "When Did She Infect Me," Bayard Johnson

Blue Penny Quarterly

• "A Brief Stay," James Katowich

• "Dogfight," Michael Knight

• "Ilfinesh," David McNair

• "The Leave-Taking," Taylor Stannard

• "Shawanigan Bingo Queen," Joseph Boyden

Burst!

• "Chad," Jeremy Barnett

• "Escape from Bondi," Jeremy Barnett

• "The Stuntman," Jeremy Barnett

Circuit Traces

• "The Age of Anything," Brad Bostian

• "Captain America," Todd Brendan Fahey

• "Nine Years," Nocholas Royle

Crisp

• "Paris, Arkansas," Matt Bonner

• "Traffic," Evan Zall

CrossConnect

• "Experiences in Handicapped Camping," Michael Mcneilley

• "The Long Dirt Road," Raina von Waldenburg

• "The Motorcycle Thief," Elizabeth A Mills

CyberKind

• "My Great Grandmother's Baseball Bat," Phil Dubitsky

• "Route 66, Revisited," Jonathan Baskin

DreamForge

• "Lunch in the Park," Francis U. Kaltenbaugh

• "Melusine Revisiting," Gay Bost

• "Pandora's Dogs," Mary Soon Lee

• "Roadkill," Jack Hillman

• "Virus Verses," Lisa Morton

E-scape

• "The Cactus Watchers," Steve Olson

• "Finding Warren," David Phalen

• "Penny Annie and the Space Monsters," Bruce S. Levine

Edifice of Writing and Literature

• "Expensive Bread," James O'Malley

• "Family Business," Diana Hannon Forrester

• "Seven Deadly Sins," Raymond Busler

• "Soul Food," Raymond Busler

Enterzone

• "7 Pinoak Lane," Levi Asher

• "All My Bad Luck," Peter Gannon Crumlish

• "Girl Birth Water Death," Martha Conway

• "Government Secrets," Martha Conway

• "The History of the California Burrito," Levi Asher

• "I Am a Gondolier," David Alexander

• "Jac Tellier, Laura and Grapes," hargitai

• "The Last to Know," Peter Gannon Crumlish

• "Never Been a Finer Chicken," Bruce Sherin (aka Dr. Kovacs)

• "Paulie," David Alexander

• "Some People," John Humpal

• "Spots," Frederick Barthelme

• "The Way You Live Now," Gary Percesepe

Far Gone

• "Down on the Farm," Todd Brendan Fahey

• "Mr. Hull," Sean Brendan-Brown

Garrett County Journal

• "Family Stunts," Peter Davies

• "Garters," Meg Kavanagh

• "Matches," Meg Kavanagh

• "The Nirvana Seizures," Alec Michod

• "Saturn Santa Faction," Cory Kapczynski

In Vivo

• "Counter Service," Edmund Goppelt

• "Flashback," Jerry Reynolds (aka Roosevelt Casey)

• "My First Shot," Steven Sanders

• "The Refugee," John Caddel

Interbang

• "Alice," Samsara Vagabond

• "Blood," Mark Adam Hartzell

• "Butter Molocom," Ben Ohmart

• "My Wet Mom," Stephen Flood

• "Now... Alone," James Groom

• "Professor Jar," Samsara Vagabond

Intermix

• "The Bright Wood," Amelinda Berube

• "Devil's Architect," Edward Willett

• "Dooley's Wake," Russell Shaddox

• "Her Mother's Eyes," Gayle P. Nastasi

• "Lay of the Kings of Dale," Michael Hicks

• "Smoked Meat," Charles A. Gramlich

• "Stephen's Folly," Brian Mortensen

InterText

• "Bludemagick," Jacqueline Carey

• "Genetic Moonshine," Jim Cowan

• "Ghostdancer," Ridley McIntyre

• "Handlers," Ceri Jordan

• "River," G.L. Eikenberry

• "Shipping and Handling Extra," Laurence Simon

• "Two Solitudes," Carl Steadman

Jolly Roger

• "Nantucket Ghost Story," A," Bootsy McClusky

Kudzu

• "Eating Buzzards," Gerald Thurmond

• "The Jigsaw Man," James Goodwin

• "A Marriage," Richard Cumyn

• "Not a Shadow, Not a Sigh," James Katowich

• "Transit Delay," Thomas J. Hubschman

Mississippi Review

• "Afterglow," Terry Engel

• "Escape," Doug Lawson

• "Hello Marge," Mario Rossilli

• "Kissing Randy," Caroline Prince

• "Landlord," Andrew Plattner

• "Party Girl," Terese Svoboda

• "Sleeping Utensils," Ron Nyren

• "Tall Folks," Elizabeth Gilbert

Morpo Review

• "A Girl and Her Dog," Mark Bothum

• "Jericho to Jericho," Amelia Franz

Net Books

• "Missed Connection," Michael Marshall Smith

NWHQ

• "The Left-Hand Turn Game," Bill New

• "Lily," Elizabeth Fisher

• "Mud Love," John Young

• "Red Rooster," Elizabeth Fisher

• "Wife," Lidia Yukman

Oyster Boy

• "Sanctuary's for the Birds," Lucy Harrison

Practice

• "Why I'm Happy All The Time," Adam Prince

Quanta

• "In The City," Jacqueline Carey

• "Moonifest Destiny," Peter Gelman

Sour Grapes

• "Buzz," Jon Brooks

• "Down a Dark Alley," Will Viharo

• "Mastodon: The Case for Nuclear Winter," John Dolan

Sparks

• "If the Moon Won't Rise Tonight, I'll Bury Us," Stacy Tartar Esch

• "On the Best Days," Paul Ford

Super AM

• "Holodram," Foster Johnson

Twilight World

• "Cronos in Wonderland," Richard Karsmakers

• "Obviously Influenced by the Devil," Richard Karsmakers

• "Wild Horses," Mark Knapp