The "Short-List" (though it seems kinda long) for the Binnacle Ultra Short Competition

Yes--I'm on it!

That's cool, but at this point, I'm just glad there's finally some word about the competition. Now, if only Winnow Press would announce its Fiction Chapbook winner. . . .

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The Binnacle judges are working feverishly on deciding the Ultra-Short 2006 winners. They have wittled the field down to 100 pieces for their short list. They have promised to cut this list in half in a few short days and announce the winners.

Here is the top 100 (or so) pieces. (There is no order.)

Lindsay Milburn * Jonathon's First
Leo Banks * [Untitled - Quigley the writer]
Hal Ackerman * “Fourteen”
Hal Ackerman * Pentimento
Lenore Weiss * CellPhone Poem 3: A Lot
Make a Wish * Robin M. Allen
Laura Loomis * Confession
Laura Loomis * Quitting Time
Adrianne Marcus * The World Cares Nothing of War
Scott Wiggerman * My Shadow
Greg Beatty * Anti-corporeal Activities
Greg Beatty * The Organ Donor
Cathy Cox * Vanishing Ballerina
Ashley De Meo * The Man on the Pedestal
Ashley De Meo * Requiem
Magdalena Ball * In the Aftermath
Dave Kessler * One Never Knows
Debra Grace Khattab * desert sacrifice
Debra Grace Khattab * the death of moths
Ellen Birkett Morris * [Untitled - The world ignores all grief]
Diane Smith * When the Carnival Comes to Town
Ginger Hamilton Caudill * Eden
Jeanne Lesinski * Personal Pompeii
Arthur Chappell * A Marriage of Other People's Convenience
Gary Glauber * Doll
Helen Meikle * Fantasy on a Theme of Two Doves.
Robert A. Lindblom * A Chance Meeting
Evan Guilford-Blake * In Reply to a Message from Barbara
Mark Budman * Cat's Magic
William Blaine * The Brightest Light
SuzAnne C. Cole * The Woman Whose Husband Did Nothing
Clifford Garstang * Tornado Weather
Ellen LaFleche * Working in the Ashland Mill during World War Two
Don Mahan Durbin * Mala Fides: Jane v. John
Don Mahan Durbin * Harry Unrequited
Beebe Barksdale-Bruner * Computer Prayer
Josh Maday * The Great I AM: One Young American's Interior Monologue
Sarah Mcllrath * [Untitled - Coleridge and Wordsworth were Romantics I hear]
Christina Lovin * Family Plot, Memorial Day
Christina Lovin * attraction:
Brenda Maureen Brennan * Diversions
Timothy Russell * pppppp & qqqqqq
S. Asher Sund * True Story
Paula Boon * Pride and Joy
Paula Boon * Winter’s End
Edward Durbin * A Cheesy Kindness
Nadine Darling * Nineteen
Kenneth Ryan * The Office
Anne Earney * Goodbye
Emily Lowery * Crushing Problems
Cami Park * Word of Mouth
Bradd Howard * noJ
Tania Rochelle * God's Love Is Like Duct Tape
Tessa Smith McGovern * Sunday Roast
Anna Montfort * First Day
Peggy Dunagan * Bluebird Sonnet
Carole Bugge * The Crow
Nina Bayer * Ten-Thirty Appointment
Ed Kline * Ebb Tide
Benjamin Vogt * Loving Apparitions on High Street
Diane Elayne Dees * Cleaning the Astoria
Cheryl Loetscher * Einstein’s Parrot
Charyl Loetscher * At the Window, Dancing
Hanqing Li * The ATM Machine
Stace Budzco * Top of the Hour
Nancy Bunich * The Real Child
Jennifer Merrifield * Still So Just Let’s No
Ania Vesenny * Love Child
Cheryl Chambers * Halved Hands
Caroline Robinson * Broken Glass.
Caroline Robinson * The Story Of The Snow.
Aline Soules * Blank Slate
Maria Lynam Fitzpatrick * Under Christian Crosses.
Kathy Helmer * Love Gone Bad
Mary Hamrick * An Image of a Single Woman
Diane P. Smith * Mon Ami
Raquelle Azran * He, She and They
Joyce Laird * After The Storm
F.I. Goldhaber * Shopping Mall
Ramon Collins * Smell of Rain
Yakov Azriel * Painting “The Murder of Abel”
Yakov Azriel * When Minds Are Scraped By Doubt
Yuan Kai Peng * Requiem for Alexander
Jeanine Durbin McMahon * Cancer Crab
Bernadette Geyer * Chasing the Sun to Tokyo
Emily Heebner * Art
Julie Adams * Skin of Manyoshu
Betty Dobson * Scrape Rattle Bang
F.J. Bergmann * Astroculture
Sally Bellerose * Memere Does Time in the Shirtwaist Factory
Donna Vineyard * Patron of the Arts
Cati Porter * Where She Is
Amina Hafiz * When Jake
Stephen Ausherman * Temporary Divinity
Fern Polsky-Hilyard * Coop(ed)
Gwendolyn Joyce Mintz * Sometimes
Chris Crittenden * Butterfly
Gloria Watts * The Letter
Will Carpenter * Sea Dreams
Michael Ernest Sweet * nude
Robert M. Craig * History Lesson
Mary Rudbeck Stanko * August Rendezvous
Jane Knechtel * The Place to Shoot

UMM Students
Gary Bushee * I Sing the Body Caloric
Jeanne Lilly * Thanks and Praises-