The storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction
Notable Online Short Stories of 2003
The purpose of the Million Writers Award is to honor and promote the best fiction published in online literary journals and magazines during 2003.
Over 600 short stories were nominated for the award (which includes nominations from 51 online magazines and journals, whose editors each selected up to three stories they had published in the last year). From these nominations, a volunteer panel of readers selected their favorite stories, which are listed below.
Notable Online Short Stories of 2003
The Adirondack Review
http://www.adirondackreview.homestead.com
- "Devils on Horseback" by Leslie Stella
Alsop Review
http://www.alsopreview.com
- "Happy Like Me" by Peggy Duffy
The Barcelona Review
http://barcelonareview.com
- "Who I Was Supposed to Be" by Heather Fleming
Big News
http://www.mainchance.org/bignews
- "Back to the Beach" by Avital Gad-Cykman
Blithe House Quarterly
http://www.blithe.com
- "Marry Me Quickly" by Mary Beth Caschetta
- "With Gerald of Wales in Ireland" by James Friel
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
http://www.deadmule.com
- "Takedown" by Gary Glauber
- "Fat Annie" by Jim Booth
Eclectica
http://www.eclectica.org
- "A Union on Independence Day" by Sefi Atta
- "The Boy With The Hole In His Head" by Gokul Rajaram
- "I Am So Loving the Cello" by Thomas J. Hubschman
- "Random Girl" by Theresa Boyar
- "Ascensions and Declinations" by Dennis Tafoya
- "The Big Inning" by Daniel Cubias
- "Confessions of a Nihilist" by William Starr Moake
- "My Expatriate Lover Will Meet Me at Pizza Hut" by Roderick Maclean
- "The Little Boy" by Zdravka Evtimova
Eleven Bulls
http://www.elevenbulls.com
- "Frankenmuth" by Lisa Drostova
Eyeshot
http://www.eyeshot.net
- "You Are a 14-Year-Old Arab Chick Who Just Moved to Texas" by Randa Jarrar
- "An Interpretation of, and Pronunciation Guide For, REO Speedwagon's 1980 Hit, 'Keep On Lovin' You'" by Jamie Allen
- "Car Singer" by Steven Coy
Fail Better
http://www.failbetter.com
- "Strike Anywhere" by Antonya Nelson
- "Flowereaters" by Liana Scalettar
Fiction Warehouse
http://www.fictionwarehouse.com
- "Smoke and Mirrors" by Phoebe Kate Foster
- "It is Not Dying" by Corey Mesler
- "name your next cat after a forgotten musician or a famous general" by Laura Ellen Scott
Figdust
http://www.figdust.com
- "Tense Changes" by Kelly Daniel
42 Opus
http://www.42opus.com
- "Closet Fiction" by Tom Bradley
Gator Springs Gazette
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fandango.virtual/gator
- "The Cryin Dyin Bananas" by Jonathan Redhorse
- "The Atomic Tellermans" by Jonathan Redhorse
Gowanas
http://www.gowanusbooks.com
- "The Donkey-Man" by Mohammad Nasrullah Khan and Marlene Amero
Hobart, A Literary Journal
http://hobartpulp.com
- "Our Anniversary" by Ian F. King
- "Ferris Wheel" by Karen Ashburner
Identity Theory
http://www.identitytheory.com
- "My Confidence" by Ilana Simons
The Land-Grant College Review
http://www.land-grantcollegereview.com
- "Some Of The World Transactions My Father Has Missed Due To His Death On September 14, 1999" by Mikhail Iossel
Lit Pot
http://www.literarypotpourri.com
- "Dr Dick Somebody" by Marc Phillips
- "My Scandaous Sex Life" by Wendy Vaizey
- "Babysitting" by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
McSweeney's Internet Tendencies
http://www.mcsweeneys.net
- "A Message from Pat Robertson and the 'Vote No On Jesus' Campaign" by Nathan McIntire
- "Stalking Gordon Willis" by Chris McCoy
Monkey Bicycle
http://www.monkeybicycle.net
- "Monkey Blood" by Bill Spratch
The Morning News
http://www.themorningnews.org
- "What They Weren't Worth" by Jon Fasman
Mipoesias
http://www.mipoesias.com
- "Buck Dance" by Kris Broughton
Newtopia Magazine
http://newtopiamagazine.net
- "Azért is..!" by Alan C. Baird
The Paumonok Review
http://www.etext.org/Fiction/Paumanok
- "Soap Gets in Your Eyes" by Sarah Kate Levy
Pierian Springs
http://www.pieriansprings.net
- "Life is no Fairy Tale" by Peggy Duffy
Pindeldyboz
http://www.pindeldyboz.com
- "Workshop" by Keith Baughman
- "What a Nice Young Man" by Laila Lalami
- "So Happy" by Myfanwy Collins
- "Monsters" by D.A. Taylor
- "No Donuts" by Amy Havel
- "Five Times" by Christopher Monks
Shots Magazine
http://www.shotsmag.co.uk
- "How to Save Your Own Life" by Carol Anne Davis
Shred of Evidence
http://www.shredofevidence.com
- "Dust Is Thicker Than Water" by Stephen D. Rogers
Spoiled Ink
http://www.spoiledink.com
- "Suburban Confessions" by Scott Dille
- "Othello in Performance" by Marc Weinberg
- "Self Analysis" by Rattan Mann
Stickman Review
http://www.stickmanreview.com
- "The Dress with Girl Not in It" by Peter Markus
- "Solid Gone" by A.C. Koch
Summerset Review
http://www.summersetreview.org
- "The Unrequited" by Max Dunbar
- "The New Geometry for Girls" by Tony O'Brien
3 A.M. Magazine
http://www.3ammagazine.com
- "The Stylist" by Tom Bradley
Tarpaulin Sky
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com
- "Interlude" by Kelly Pilgrim
Three Candles
http://threecandles.org
- "Nails" by Deborah Batterman
viewsUnplugged
http://www.viewsunplugged.com
- "The Catamaran" by Rahul Nair
- "Death of the Monsignor" by Thomas Hubschman
Word Riot
http://www.wordriot.org
- "Pennies" by Alan Danzis
- "How To Catch a Good Girl" by Claudia Smith
