FICTION WINNERS- Winners 2006: Hometown favorites...
FICTION WINNERS- Winners 2006: Hometown favorites...
After much thoughtful deliberation, our judges have finally chosen the winners of the Hook's 2006 Fiction Contest.
Our thanks to the 100-plus writers who entered this year's contest. In our fast-paced, emailing, blogging, text-messaging world, writing fiction can be a thankless business. The blood, sweat, and toil on the pages we received was evident, which made the selection process difficult.
In the end, a good story is a good story in its own way, and so judging them can become an exercise in hair-splittingkind of like being asked to decide which of your children you like better. On that note, two of this year's winners are a native daughter and son, with the third having lived in Earlysville since the late 1970s.
Anyway, the deed is done, and it's time for our winners to bask in the glory of some well-earned recognition. This week, the Hook presents Virginia Moran's First Place story "Traveling" in its entirety, along with interviews with Second and Third Place winners, Lincoln Michel and Mark Lindensmith.
Winner - Traveling by Virginia Moran
I swear the way a person acts comes from their blood just like blue eyes or red hair. My family is living proof. I've been faithful to Marie ever since I saw her on the laundromat steps. Marie's a born run-around. And this kid, who I might as well say now isn't mine, can't be kept in a yard with a fence.
He's only two, and I watch him every second, but all I have to do is go inside for a beer and when I come out, he's headed down the road on the other side of a chain-link fence and the gate's still closed.
I don't know how he does it. Houdini, maybe. J.B. knows all about Houdini– says the magician swore he was going to come back from the dead. I ain't particularly superstitious, but I've had to light out after that kid before he gets to the highway too many times not to start to wonder.
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