We received a total of 435 submissions.
Here are the top 20 percent, a total of 87 Quarterfinalists.
Semifinalists will be announced July 22nd.
Finalists (Top 3) will be announced on July 29th, 2012
The Winner will be announced August 1st, 2012.
Congratulations to everyone!
A Penny Saved is A Penny Stolen by Leslie Jean Jones
A Spot Of Bother by Todd Gordon & Lee Chambers
Accidents by Paul Chironi
All I Know Is Nothing by Matthew Barker
All That Cat by Jessica von Schramm
Amenities Included by Stephen C. Krystek
Amygdala by Linda Sills
Animals by Brian MacEvilly
Anne of the Thousand Lilies by Charles Musser
Answers by Edgar Martinez Schulz
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking by Paul Epstein
Bang by Anne Carmack and Matthew Lawrence
Becoming Lana Liu by Alfonso Orsini and David J. Schroeder
Between Shifts by Jaime Saginor
Breakfast at Gerardo's by Kim Nunley
Burn by Finley Mulligan
Burn the Day by Francis Pilchesky
Checkpoint by Sarah Magill
Christmas Shoes by Eric Mithen
Chub by Alessandra Gherardi
Crank by Matthew Himlin
Crossfire by Jason Miller
Dacryphilia by Amanda Mihalakopoulos
Dead Rabbit by Ana Brown
Deviled Eggs by Cody Rea
Die For Love by Giorgina Medori
Dolores by Vicki Speegle
Edwin and Maudey by Nancy Froeschle
Everything You Say I Am, I'm Not by Harold Chapman
Glard by April Rouveyrol
Glare by April Rouveyrol
Graciana Smallhopes by Michael Yagnow
Growing Pains by Ginia Desmond
Hlf pSt nInE by Douglas Stark
Hypocholorite by Bryce Wolfgang Joiner
I'm David by Gloria (Day) Hickerson
In The Silence by Kristi L. Simkins
Ingrid Astrid by Mike Comstock
Itch by Heather Wallace-Brown
Jackie by Dr. Awesome & Ms. Fantastic
Last Train by Paul Schofield
Listen by Philip Hoang
Little Princesses by Anna Heinämaa
Maid of Horror by Caitlin Koller and Lachlan Smith
Mann's World by Dipak Chowdhury
Meet Cupid by William Tepper
Monsters by Luke Kondor
Mr and Mrs Mash by Nina Mitrovic
My Kingdom by Jennifer Hahn
Neighbors by Billy Ray Fong
No Price Too High by Shale Nelson
Notes by Josef Ber
Olo by Greg Donahue
Oscar's Ashes by Luke Gomez
Pale Blue Eyes by Chris Connolly
Party Monsters by Scott Luper
Playing All The Notes by Kelly Schulz Greene
Playing Away by Steve Langridge
Polly and the Cracker by Laura Ries
Postcards From Nowhere by Ben Cluse
Pun'kin by Tracee Beebe
Radish Hearts by Ray Shea
Robert by Willy Rowe
Snowflakes by Sandy Garfunkel
Sunrise on a Cloudy Morning by Victoria Ellis Nye
Sweet by Paige Baldwin and Julie Kirtz Garrett
The Bridge on the River Styx by John Ashbrook
The Chocolate Kandinsky by Suzanne Griffin
The Devil Wears a Hat by Ronald L. Ecker
The Doorway by Bragi Schut
The Dungeon by A.P. Quach
The Economy Sucks by J.E. Clarke
The Flight by Chris Jenkins
The Island by rian MacEvilly
The Ladder by Faisal A. Qureshi
The Magician's Son by Chris Moore
The Project by J L Swift
The Sacred Heart by Andrew Serban
The Seat by Christopher Dingli
The Three of Us by Andrew Viner
The Way Back by Robert Hill
This Modern Man is Beat by David J Schroeder
To Late for Candies by Adina Sadeanu
Trumpet by Ben Cleary
Two Guys, A Girl and A Parking Space by Chris Mueller
Waking Billy by David Widdicombe
Wort Irkington's Hate Books by Annaliese Ciel Walker