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    Twenty-Minute Stories: Grand Prize Winner: Untitled
    by David Kennerly
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    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
  • December 10, 2003
    Twenty-Minute Stories: Untitled Twenty-Minute Story
    by Victoria Lancelotta
  • December 9, 2003
    Twenty-Minute Stories: Quadratic
    by Michael Martone
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