Winners of Codex story contests.
Codex holds several short story contests of various kinds each year. Here is a complete history of those contests, including winners and (where applicable) where the winning stories have subsequently sold. Also listed are non-placing stories that sold.
To have your sale or publication of a Codex contest story listed here, visit the Have you published a Codex contest story? thread and post your success story there. (Please include contest name and year, story title, market sold to, the story’s final title, and a web address where the story was published, if available.)
2019
Flash, Saviour of the Universe
Holly Schofield
Jennifer Hudak
Kelly Sandoval
Beth Cato
Cislyn Smith
Nathaniel Eakman
Floris M. Kleijne
After We Buried The Hatchet—Daily Science Fiction
Sylvia Volk
Wendy Nikel
Weekend Warrior
Aimee Ogden
Alexis A. Hunter
Andrea G. Stewart
Jenn Reese
Kerstin Hall
Michelle Muenzler
Five Candles for the Apocalypse—Factor Four Magazine
Spider, Dreaming—Zooscape
Rachael Jones
Shannon Peavey
Aimee Picchi
Amanda Helms
Ani King
Emily McCosh
Kat Otis
Rebecca Birch
Samantha Murray
Tina Connolly
Anne Leonard
Eric James Stone
Gretchen Tessmer
Matt Dovey
Matthew Bailey
Megan Lee Beals
Mike Pettit
Stephen S. Power
Stewart C. Baker
Communications from the Honeymoon Suite—Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove
How to Break Causality and Write the Perfect Time Travel Story—Translunar Travellers’ Lounge
Three Tales the River Told—Nature Futures
Alexei Collier
How to Confront the Sphinx Haunting Your Garden—Flash Fiction Online
Anatoly Belilovsky
Virror Virror—Daily Science Fiction
Bo Balder
Breadcrumbs For an Alien—Nature Futures
Goldfish and Tea—Daily Science Fiction
Brian Hugenbruch
So You Want To Eat An Omnalisk Starfish—Syntax and Salt
Christi Nogle
Paper Dragonfly, Paper Mountain—Apparition Lit
What Do You See When You're Both Asleep?—The Arcanist
Dafydd McKimm
The Colossus Stops—Daily Science Fiction
Dawn Vogel
A Sixteen-Step Plan to Super Villainy—Flash Fiction Magazine
Deborah Davitt
Forward, Into Violet Sunset—Factor Four
The Ghost Teas of Sakurajima—Mithila Review
Eleanor R. Wood
Objects Left Behind at the Sea of Tranquillity Public Library—Daily Science Fiction
Floris M. Kleijne
Ashes to Ashes—Daily Science Fiction
Pain Tolerance and Resistance to Corrosive Substances In Four Specimens of Exomalaclemys Oharensis—Daily Science Fiction
Pop And The Pirates—Factor Four Magazine
Summit Attempt—Dreamforge
George Nikolopoulos
The Ghost Who Haunted Her—Five Minutes At Hotel Stormcove
Holly Schofield
A Moment in Time in 1953—Five Minutes at Hotel Stormcove (as Diffidence in White and Grey)
KT Wagner
Meals She Has Not Eaten—Factor Four Magazine (as Auntie's Obsession)
Kurt Pankau
Carpools & Coworkers—Daily Science Fiction
Laura F. Sanchez
Bayou Luminescence—New Myths
P.A. Cornell
They Fell to Earth in a Downpour—Frozen Wavelets
Rebecca Roland
Grandmother's Satchel, Full of Tongues—Flash Fiction Online
Robert Dawson
Replay—Sub-Q
Snows of Years Gone By—Frozen Wavelets
Sandy Parsons
Devouring Time—Selene Quarterly Magazine
The Adventures of WaterBear and MossPiglet—Zooscape
Stephen S. Power
The Last Time You'll See Me. The First Time We'll Meet—Factor Four Magazine
Timothy Mudie
To Prove the Existence—New Myths
2018
Flash, Saviour of the Universe
Dafydd McKimm
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
Wendy Nikel
Amanda Helms
Beth Cato
Timothy Mudie
Aimee Picchi
Matthew Bailey
Samantha Murray
D.A. Xiaolin Spires
ErasureToasted Cake
Dafydd McKimm
A Lady of Ganymede, a Sparrow of Io—Flash Fiction Online
Dawn Vogel
Grandmother Firebird—Breath and Shadow
Swift Vengeance—New Myths
Deborah Davitt
The Experiment Meets Certain Doom—Mad Scientist Journal
Where the Silvershade Blooms—Liquid Imagination
Floris M. Kleijne
Out Of The Bag—Factor Four
The Silver Cliffs of the Universe—Daily Science Fiction (as The Last Rider of the Apocalypse)
Gretchen Tessmer
How It Feels To Be Swallowed By A Black Hole—Nature Futures
See You On the Other Side—The Arcanist
James Beamon
The Familiar Monsters—Daily Science Fiction
Jenny Rae Rappaport
Doors—Factor Four Magazine
Laura Pearlman
Laurence Brothers
Cold Memories—Nature Futures
Robert Dawson
The Librarian—Nature Futures
Halloween Contest
Farewell Concert at the World's End by Robin Duncan—Pseudopod
Novella Contest
All the Dust of Shattered Heaven by Beth Cato
Listening for her Voice in the Waves by Deborah Davitt
Every Ocean Rises by Rachael Jones
Sea-Daughters, Sun-Daughters by Aimee Ogden
The 9th Car by Jeff Lyman
City of Magic and Desire by Laurence Brothers—World Castle Publishing
Horse in Water, Black on Gems, Blood on Thorns by Erin M. Hartshorn
Saving Io by Marie Vibbert
Mad Milk by Natalia Theodoridou
Weekend Warrior
Emily McCosh
MK Hutchins
Rachael Jones
Shannon Peavey
Jenn Reese
All 9,203 Episodes of How I Met Your Broodmother, Ranked—Daily Science Fiction
Screw Your Courage to the Sticky Place—Daily Science Fiction
Symphony for the Space Between Stars—Fireside
The Right Number of Cats—Fantasy & Science Fiction
To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as A Stone's Throw From You)
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
Karen Osborne
Tina Connolly
miscellaneous notes from the time an alien came to band camp disguised as my alto sax—F&SF
Jared Oliver Adams
K.S. O'Neill
Kerstin Hall
Matthew Bailey
Tasting Notes on Three Vintages of Poison—Daily Science Fiction
The Eye Eaters—Flash Fiction Online
Aimee Picchi
Dear Captain Continuum: I Quit—Toasted Cake
Austin DeMarco
The Confectioner—Daily Science Fiction
Bo Balder
Bronze in Slow Motion—Kaleidotrope
Kintsugi—Pseudopod
The Smartest Damn Machine On Earth—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
C.L. Holland
The Resurgence of Clowns—Daily Science Fiction
Caroline M. Yoachim
A Wedding Gown of Autumn Leaves—Daily Science Fiction
Deborah Davitt
Leaving Red Footprints—Switchblade/Pulp Modern: Tech Noir
Eleanor R. Wood
What The Sea Reaps, We Must Provide—Diabolical Plots
Floris M. Kleijne
A Fragment for Father—Galaxy's Edge
George Nikolopoulos
An Android's Guide to Deciphering Emotions—Factor Four Magazine
The Curse of the Ice Dragon—Daily Science Fiction
Hailey Stone
A Subtle Fire Beneath the Skin—Sword & Sonnet: An Anthology of Battle Poets (as To Write in This Much Red)
When the Tides Bring You Back—Factor Four Magazine
Helen French
Shifting Sand Dunes—Kraxon
Jeff Soesbe
Hold On—Factor Four
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
A is for Aardvark—New Flash Fiction Review (as Animals at the Ball)
Pushing a Prayer—Lascaux Review
The Roots That Roam—Abyss & Apex
Kat Otis
Time And Time Again—Daily Science Fiction
Kate Heartfield
A Cut-Purse Rethinks His Ways—Timeworn Literary Journal
Larry Hodges
Death for the Cure: A Comedy About Cancer—Galaxy's Edge
Laura F. Sanchez
Long as a Country Mile—Every Day Fiction
Laurence Brothers
Happy To Be Of Service—Manawaker Studios
Sarvangasana—Sensory Perceptions
Matthew Bailey
The Pilot Was Human—Factor Four (as Naked Skin, Fearful Metal)
Michelle Muenzler
The Inquisitor's Chair—Daily Science Fiction
The Marionette's Daughter—Daily Science Fiction
Rebecca Birch
The Lights of Wonderland—Factor Four Magazine
Robert Dawson
Take Your Partners—Wild Musette
Shawn Proctor
Unicorns on All Street, Fairies in the Coffee Shop—Galaxy's Edge
Stewart C. Baker
Magic Dad's Save-the-Bake-Off Cookie Bites—Speculative Masculinities
Words I've Redefined Since Your Dinosaurs Invaded My Lunar Lair—Flash Fiction Online
2017
Collaboration Contest
Coachwhip and Wade, Hex-tamers For Hire by Toni Pi & K.G. Jewell—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Flash, Saviour of the Universe
Emily McCosh
The Stars and the Rain—Flash Fiction Online
those who dance for ghosts
Lina Rather
Quick-Reject McDreck
Paul R. Hardy
The Aptonymic Alliterator
Rebecca Birch
The Sun Is a Deadly Laser
David Vaughan
Flagon with the Dragon
Eleanna Castroianni
Alium Sativum
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
Tribble Nibbles
Stephen S. Power
73
Aimee Ogden
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Aimee Picchi
The Toast in the Machine
Eugenia Triantafyllou
Eugenia Triantafyllou
Wendy Nikel
T.Rex with a Typewriter
Anna Zumbro
A Street But Half Made Up—Nature Futures
Bo Balder
It's Spring in the Forever Zoo—The Overcast
Christi Nogle
A Fully Chameleonic Foil—The Arcanist
Deborah Davitt
Arthur Polaris and the Curse of Vanth—StoryHack (as Night of a Thousand Eyes)
Conceit and Capability—Galaxy's Edge
Eleanna Castroianni
The Silent Flowers of the Magician's Garden—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Eleanor R. Wood
One And One Makes One—Harbinger Press' Flash Fiction Fridays
George Nikolopoulos
Magic Flowing Through Our Hands Like Water—Selene Quarterly Magazine
Memoirs of a One-Time Dragon Slayer's Apprentice—Factor Four
James Beamon
A Villain Considers His Options—Daily Science Fiction
A Villain Turns Mad—Daily Science Fiction
Jon Lasser
The Chex Gambit—Toasted Cake
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
A La Carte—Daily Science Fiction
Moon In Her Doorway—Daily Science Fiction
Laurence Brothers
A Handful of Dust—Gunsmoke & Dragonfire
The Violet Hour—Galaxy's Edge
Michelle Muenzler
Bitter is the Sea, and Sweet—Daily Science Fiction (as Bitter is the Sea, and Bright)
The Bells of Bel-Hazir—Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
Natalia Theodoridou
An Actual Fish—Future SF Digest
Patrick Hurley
If You See Her—New Myths
Rebecca Birch
Eyes of Wood, Heart of Stone—Flash Fiction Online
Phoenix, Fallen—Factor Four Magazine
Stephen S. Power
The Paper Dragon—Daily Science Fiction
Vajra Chandrasekera
Heron of Earth—Clarkesworld
Terminus—Three-Lobed Burning Eye
When Leopard's-Bane Came to the Door of Third Heaven—Liminal
Halloween Contest
Farewell Concert at the World's End by Robin Duncan—Pseudopod
Novella Contest
A place we used to visit by Bennett North
To Talk of Kings by Kate Marshall
Le Jardin Animé (1893) by Victoria Sandbrook Flynn—Giganotosaurus
Songs of Water and Bone by Amanda Helms
The Wilst by Cara DiGirolama
Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water by Vylar Kaftan
Life and Death in 10E by Abhinav Bhat
The King of Next Week by Elaine IsaakGuardbridge
The Wind, the Dark, and the Quiet by Jeremy Gottwig
Red Noise by John Murphy
Rouge Demon by Laurence Brothers
The Demons of Wall Street by Laurence Brothers—Mirror World Publishing
Weekend Warrior
Natalia Theodoridou
Rachael Jones
Tina Connolly
Hearts, Sticky with Mulch and Jam—Daily Science Fiction
Rejuve—Daily Science Fiction
Aimee Picchi
Caroline M. Yoachim
Building a Bridge Too Vast to Cross—Daily Science Fiction
Shadow Station—Nature Futures
Until the Day We Go Home—Fireside
Eugenia Triantafyllou
Cislyn Smith
MK Hutchins
Wendy Nikel
Aaron DaMommio
Things I Realized on Finding an Alien in the Passenger Seat of my Car—Flash Fiction Online
Allison Mulder
If We Live to Be Giants—Fireside
Amanda Helms
Anatoly Belilovsky
Bot and Paid For—Daily Science Fiction
Not To Praise Her—Daily Science Fiction
Andrea Corbin
At Death's Ball—Gallery of Curiosities (as The One in the Night-Storm Dress)
Austin DeMarco
True Love, False Memories—Galaxy's Edge
Bo Balder
The Soft Eyes Open—Reckoning
The Soft Eyes Open—Little Blue Marble
Brigitte McCray
Fat with Berries, Full of Life—Devilfish Review
Darusha Wehm
Attention Deficit—Little Blue Marble (as Preventative Maintenance)
If Ink Could Flow Backward—Arsenika
Eileen Lee
The First Time Under the Jack Pine—Speculative Masculinities
Floris M. Kleijne
A Dragon's Nature—Daily Science Fiction
Jake and the Purple Hurricane—Factor Four (as A Right Angle to Here and Now)
Resigned—Galaxy's Edge
This Is KIlling Me—Galaxy's Edge
George Nikolopoulos
Frozen Moments Out of Time—Galaxy's Edge (as Frozen Moments, Stolen Out of Time)
The Sacred Order of the Guardians of the Last Door—On Spec
Grayson Bray Morris
In Which Liz Builds a Robot with Unexpected Results—Galaxy's Edge
Holly Schofield
Reaching Up, Reaching Back—Constellary Tales
J.W. Alden
Braving the Morrow Candle's Wane—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Jose Iriarte
This Wine-Dark Feeling That Isn't The Blues—Escape Pod
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
Why—Galaxy's Edge
Julie Frost
Doc Borden's Hard-Luck Hoss—Gallery of Curiosities
K.S. O'Neill
Do Not Wake the Sleeping Princess—Daily Science Fiction
Turn A Corner, Lose A Life—Daily Science Fiction
Kat Otis
A Hero, I Am—Daily Science Fiction
Kate Heartfield
Familiar Continents—Daily Science Fiction (as Ad Infinitum)
Larry Hodges
The Rat Race of Tomorrow—Galaxy's Edge
Laurence Brothers
Drunk On Primes—Apparition Lit (as An Infinite Series of Primes)
New Hire at the Final Library—Zooscape
One Little House—Spaceports & Spidersilk
Lou J. Berger
Burn My Ashes on Mars—Galaxy's Edge (as Finding Mars)
Hired Gun—Galaxy's Edge
Marina J. Lostetter
Discard the Sun, for It has Failed Us—Uncanny
Matt Dovey
Remember to Breathe—Cast of Wonders
Michael Haynes
How To Choose—Nature Futures
Who Wants to Live Forever?—Daily Science Fiction
Michelle Muenzler
Flowers for the Living, Flowers for the Dead—Reckoning
In the Bottom of the Tower Where All Beasts Roam—Daily Science Fiction
The Future is Bright—The Cockroach Conservatory (as Our Future is Bright)
Natalia Theodoridou
Down By The Weeping Shore—Gorgon: Stories of Emergence
To Stab With A Rose, To Love With A Knife—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Nicole Feldringer
The entry hedges are arms, open for embrace—The NoSleep Podcast, Suddenly Shocking (as The Embrace)
Patrick Hurley
Exit Interview—Galaxy's Edge
Robert Dawson
Steadies—Compelling SF
Shannon Fay
A Seed in the Ground—Daily Science Fiction
Fight for the Stars—Daily Science Fiction
Shawn Proctor
The Day Time Stood Still—Galaxy's Edge
Tom Carpenter
The Flavors of Sorrow—Galaxy's Edge
Travis Burnham
This Sweet Little Magic—Flash Fiction Online (as That Dark, Sweet Magic)
Victoria Sandbrook Flynn
The Moon, the Sun, and the Truth—Shimmer
2016
Codexian Idol
Two by Two, Into the Sea by Samantha Murray
How to Breathe in Deep Water by Shannon Peavey
The Only Human by Andrew Gray
The Dead Gets on You by Jennifer Dornan-Fish—Flame Tree Press: Swords & Steam (as Fire to Set the Blood)
Three Meetings of the Pregnant Man Support Group by James Beamon—Apex Magazine
Prisoner's Game by Sylvia Volk
The Fifth Unforgivable by Vajra Chandrasekera
Follow the White Line by Bo Balder—Clarkesworld
All The Pretty Children by Erin Roberts—The Dark (as Snake Season)
Dandelion by John Shade—Shimmer
Flash, Saviour of the Universe
Andrew Gray
Try Catch Throw—Nature Futures
Benjamin C. Kinney
The Setting of the Sun—Compelling SF
Beth Goder
To The Eggplant Cannon—Metamorphosis
Bo Balder
I Bid Genocide—Daily Science Fiction
I Die A Little—Nature
Darusha Wehm
Reflections on a Life Story—Nature Futures
Holly Schofield
Best of Breed—Buckshot
Jose Iriarte
Heart-Stitch—Daily Science Fiction
Laurence Brothers
Shadow Stalkers—Aquila Magazine
Matt Dovey
Tajdid al Khalq fil-Anat—Escape Pod (as The Ghosts of Europa Will Keep You Trapped in a Prison You Make for Yourself)
Michelle Muenzler
The Cats of Dornishett—Skelos
The Smell of Bread, So Long Forgotten—Deep Magic
We Always Remember, Come Spring—Daily Science Fiction
Natalia Theodoridou
The Starling of Her Name—Gamut
Paul R. Hardy
The Coal Remembers What It Was—Diabolical Plots
Rebecca Birch
Songs In The Key of Chamomile—Galaxy's Edge
This Isn't Better—Galaxy's Edge
Shannon Fay
A Scrimshaw of Smeerps—Toasted Cake
Halloween Contest
Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Alexei Collier—Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
The Vengeance of Hallowtide by Paul R. Hardy
Gods of the Deep, Spirits of the Wall by Amanda Helms
A Spider Trapped in Wax by Matt Dovey—Pseudopod
This Time, Forever by Michelle Muenzler—Supernatural Horror Short Stories
Lux Nocturna by Eleanor R. Wood—Galaxy's Edge
The Hammer's Prayer by Benjamin C. Kinney—Diabolical Plots
Thirteen Bullets by Laurence Brothers—Podcastle
Title Rummage Sale Contest
With Cardamom I'll Bind Their Lips by Beth Cato
Foxglove and Lavender by Travis Burnham
Properties of Obligate Pearls by L.S. Johnson
The Stylized Unicorn Escapes Its Poster in a Seattle Teenager's Bedroom by Tom Carpenter—Galaxy's Edge
Goodbye, Until We Die Again by T. Jane Berry
I'm Sorry I Couldn't Make It True by Wendy Nikel
To Touch the Sun Before it Fades by Aimee Ogden—Persistent Visions
Cardinal Skin by Bo Balder—Abandoned Places
A Vocabulary of Remorse by Dantzel Cherry—Science Fiction and the Medical Humanities anthology
Midnight on the Space Station Alcatraz by Floris M. Kleijne Catalysts, Explorers, and Secret Keepers (Museum of Science Fiction)
Soliloquy in a Cheap Diner off Route 66 by James Beamon—Apex Magazine
To Them We Are Merely Clay by Liz Colter—Galaxy's Edge
After The Story Ends by M.E. Garber—Galaxy's Edge
Sweet Marrow by Vajra Chandrasekera—Strange Horizons
Weekend Warrior
Caroline M. Yoachim
Chocolate Milkshake—Lightspeed's PoC Destroy Science Fiction
Exquisite Corpse—Daily Science Fiction
Love Out of Season—Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
The Words on My Skin—Uncanny
John Murphy
Rachael Jones
Anna Zumbro
Kelly Sandoval
Laura Pearlman
Six Ways to Become a Cat—Mothership Zeta (as Noteworthy Customer Service Interactions, Example 12: Mendoza and Squeakyb)
Lauren M. Roy
Samantha Murray
Shannon Peavey
Alex Shvartsman
I Have No Talent and I Must Stream—Nature Futures (as Fifteen Minutes)
Amanda Helms
Nemesis Inside!—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Amy Sisson
Daisy, Cactus, Porcupine, Ghost—Zetetic: A Record of Unusual Inquiry
Anatoly Belilovsky
The Perils of Bonaparte—Copperfield Review
Austin DeMarco
Infinity Minus One—Daily Science Fiction
Rules for Quantum Speed Dating—Daily Science Fiction
Barbara A. Barnett
She Is Just A Statue—DarkFuse (as Seen And Not Heard)
Beth Goder
Eating the Sun—Mothership Zeta
When All the Clocks Are Wrong—Escape Pod
Bo Balder
Ritual—Nature Futures (as Skin Hunger)
The Mad Hatter's Daughter—Bracken Magazine (as I Am Your Rabbit)
Unraveling—Freeze Frame Fiction
Christopher Cornell
L.A. Loves You—City of the Future
Dantzel Cherry
Troubleshooting Your Doomsday Device—T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog
Eleanor R. Wood
Candy Comfort—Daily Science Fiction
Eric James Stone
A Potential Application of Induced Resonance in a Four-Dimensional Crystal of Quantum Spacetime—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Floris M. Kleijne
An Oasis of Amends—Reckoning
Frog Soup—Daily Science Fiction
The Frown—Daily Science Fiction
Holly Heisey
The Orbits of Gods—Humanagerie
Holly Schofield
Half-Baked—Theme of Absence
The Intrepid Goshawk's First (and Last) Potluck Signup Sheet—Sub-Q (as Vector III's Potluck Signup Sheet)
Jeff Stehman
A Familiar and Her Wizard—Electric Spec
Moving Lair—Bards & Sages Quarterly
Jose Iriarte
Spirit of Home—Motherboard
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
The Last Passenger Pigeon—Nature Futures
Julie Frost
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Werewolf—A Year of the Monkeys
Werewolf, Soldier, Pastor, Man—Sirius Science Fiction (as Identity Crisis)
Kate Heartfield
A Threadbare Carpet—Tesseracts
Aluminum and Silk—49th Parallels
In Dragonfly Lake—Kaleidotrope
Larry Hodges
Christmas GI Joes—Factor Four Magazine
The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
The Village on the Tesseract Wall—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as The Plaything on the Tesseract Wall)
Laurence Brothers
Down Stepped Proud Galatea With A Sigh—Spirits' Tincture
The Stranger—Third Flatiron Cat's Breakfast anthology (as Strange Stars)
Lynette Mejia
Now Watch as Belinda Unmakes the World—Flash Fiction Online
Swamp Rats—Flash Fiction Online (as Mamita)
M.E. Garber
Cold Currents—Abyss & Apex
Matt Dovey
Quartet of the Far Blown Winds—Flash Fiction Online
Matt Mikalatos
Race Cards—Daily Science Fiction
Michelle Muenzler
Shen, at Night—Electric Athenaeum
The Way We Fall—Daily Science Fiction
MK Hutchins
At the Museum of Holographic Art—Daily Science Fiction
Dragon-Smoked Barbecue—Strange Horizons
Words of Creation—Daily Science Fiction
Natalia Theodoridou
Ajdenia—Nature Futures
All Those Parties We Didn't Cry At—Daily Science Fiction
Rebecca Birch
The Wren and the Clockwork Man—T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog
Robert Dawson
On Words That Cannot Be Pronounced—Star*Line
The Nochi-Jite of Space-Admiral Moto—Buckshot
Shannon Fay
Flesh and Blood—Daily Science Fiction (as Prodigal Daughter)
Stewart C. Baker
The Fragmented Poet Files a Police Report—Science Fiction Poetry Association
Trina Marie Phillips
The Hero—Daily Science Fiction
Vajra Chandrasekera
The Rogue State Next Door—Unsung Stories
2015
Codexian Idol
Cortaud by Shannon Peavey
A Song of Home, the Organ Grinds by James Beamon—Lightspeed
Children of Blood, Children of Stone by Kelly Sandoval
The Empty Throne by Benjamin C. Kinney
In that Fierce Light by Eric James Stone—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as Crowdfinding)
Push Coat by Holly Schofield—Wild Musette (as Twisted Threads)
The Waters and the Wild of Winter Street by Jessi Cole Jackson—Book Smugglers
Silverbird Rising by Rebecca Birch—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Flash, Saviour of the Universe
Merc Rustad
Sarah Pinsker
Left the Century to Sit Unmoved—Strange Horizons
On the Clearance Rack At A Beachside Souvenir Shop—Asimov's Science Fiction
K.B. Rylander
Samantha Murray
Alexis A. Hunter
Cislyn Smith
Alexis A Hunter
Fall to Her—Apex Magazine
Anatoly Belilovsky
Borscht—Daily Science Fiction
Verweile Doch! Du Bist So Schoen!—SF Comet
Benjamin C. Kinney
Cyborg Shark Battle (Season 4, O'ahu Frenzy)—Third Flatiron Cat's Breakfast anthology
Sweeter than Lead—Podcastle
Gary Emmette Chandler
Walking in the Air—Flash Fiction Online (as Sparrows)
Holly Schofield
Ground Truthing—Helios Quarterly
The Pink of Perfection—Parsec's Triangulation Series
James Beamon
Settling Beef—Daily Science Fiction
To Boldly Go—Digital Fiction Pub
Tracking in the Ruined Stories of Old Earth—Escape Pod (as The Wind You Touch When You Run)
Jose Iriarte
Of Unions, Intersections, and Empty Sets—Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
The Curse of Giants—Daily Science Fiction
L.S. Johnson
Echo—Syntax & Salt (as Vestiges)
Michelle Muenzler
One More Bite—Daily Science Fiction
Natalia Theodoridou
Now We've Lost—Shimmer
Soku's New Night—Firewords
Rebecca Birch
My Secret Thorns—Silent Screams: An Anthology of Socially Conscious Dark Fiction
Robert Dawson
Sir Gawain And The Little Green Men—Compelling SF (as The Art of Failure)
SB Divya
Gaps of Joy, And a Knot for Love—Podcastle
Stephen S. Power
The Catskill Dragon—Deep Magic
Stewart C. Baker
Just Another Night at the Abandoned Draft Bar and Grill—Galaxy's Edge
The Colours of Europa, the Colours of Home—Little Blue Marble
The Thing about Heisenball—Daily Science Fiction
Halloween Contest
They're Smart, You Know by Kelly Sandoval
The Sweetness of Honey and Rot by Merc Rustad
House of Whacks by Sarah Pinsker—Fantasy & Science Fiction (as Talking to Dead People)
The Haunting of Anita Reyes by Benjamin C. Kinney—Strange Horizons (as The First Confirmed Case of Non-Corporeal Recursion: Patient Anita R.)
Smells Like Teen Spirits by Olivia Fowler
More Than Yarn, Dragon, Woman by Rebecca Roland
Free-Birding into the Zombie Apocalypse by Jeff Stehman—On Spec
Tantric Abbey by Laurence Brothers
An Act of Consumption, In Two Parts by Michelle Muenzler—Daily Science Fiction
Spearfisher by Shannon Peavey
Mr. Pony by Stephen S. Power—Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
Lesions of the Heart by Holly Schofield—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as Clarity of Signal)
Episodes from the Abner-Mortimer Karmic War by James Beamon—No Sh!t, There I Was
At The Bend Of The Road by Robert Dawson—Zen of the Dead (Popcorn Press)
Novella Contest
The Intergenerational Tree by Kate MacLeod
Chimera City by Tim W. Burke
The Wave Speaker by J.S. Bangs
Title Rummage Sale Contest
Eyes Can Hear, and Tongues Will See by K.B. Rylander
The Night Bazaar for Women Becoming Reptiles by Rachael Jones—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Diving for Pieces of Truth by Samantha Murray
Beat Softly, My Wings of Steel by Beth Cato—PodCastle
Press Play to Watch It Die by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Hula-Hoop Heart by Dan Stout—Saturday Evening Post
Love Like Salt by L.S. Johnson—On the Premises (as The Tale of King Edgar)
What Slides Off Your Skin by Lynette Mejia
Some Things I Probably Should Have Mentioned Earlier by Laura Pearlman—Mothership Zeta
The Temple of Thirteen Pleasures by Laurence Brothers—Sockdolager
Games of Catching and Letting Go by M.E. Garber—Fantasy Scroll Magazine (as Catching and Letting Go)
A Drop of Ink Preserved in Amber by Marina J. Lostetter—Shimmer
As Far As by Nancy S.M. Waldman—Bundaran Press' Lazarus Risen
The Three Lives of Truck the Red by Naru Sundar—The Sockdolager
Turtle Learns His Manners by Shane Halbach—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review (as Jackrabbit's Revenge)
If X Is A Real Number by Sofie Bird—Fireside
Fallinghome: A Reevaluation by Stewart C. Baker—Big Echo SF
Weekend Warrior
J.Y. Yang
Kelly Sandoval
Rachael Jones
Home is a House That Loves You—Podcastle
Houston, Houston, Do You Read James Tiptree—Nature Futures
Laura Pearlman
Baker's Dozen—Daily Science Fiction (as A Dozen Frogs, a Bakery, and a Thing That Didn't Happen)
Oliver Buckram
S.B. Divya
Binaries—Lightspeed Magazine
Brent Smith
K.S. O'Neill
Matt Mikalatos
A.T. Greenblatt
8 Steps to Winning your Partner Back (From the Server)—Daily Science Fiction
Aidan Doyle
How I Saved the Galaxy (on a Limited Budget)—Daily Science Fiction
Remembering the Dragon—Every Day Fiction
Alex Shvartsman
He Who Watches—Fireside
Alexis A. Hunter
Molten Heart—Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Anatoly Belilovsky
Gulliver at Home—Nature Futures
Beth Cato
The Quest You Have Chosen Defies Your Fate—Daily Science Fiction
Brent Smith
The Transformation of Prince Humphrey—Unidentified Funny Objects
C.L. Holland
Your Past Life Interferes With My Very Important Studies—Flash Fiction Online
Caroline M. Yoachim
An Army of Bees—Fireside
An Impromptu Guide to Finding Your Soulmate at a Party on the Last Night of the World—Selfies from the End of the World
Birthday Child—Daily Science Fiction
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Love, Death—Lightspeed Magazine
The First Snow of Winter—Daily Science Fiction
Gareth D. Jones
The Heat of the Night—Perihelion
Holly Heisey
>SYS REBOOT—Evil Girlfriend Media
Holly Schofield
Stewardship—Unsung Stories
The Scent of Hay and Oranges—Slink Chunk Press
Jon Lasser
Fly Swatter—DarkFuse
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
Night Sprites—The Breakroom Stories
Kat Otis
An Old Warrior's Final Countdown—Every Day Fiction
Laurence Brothers
between two voices talking—Nature Futures
Her Secret Fire—The Centropic Oracle (as The Gaia Hypothesis)
Lee Budar-Danoff
Annie's Planets—T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog
Lou J. Berger
Full Skies, No Water—Mike Resnick
The Sixth Diplomatic Expedition—Daily Science Fiction
M.E. Garber
Dogsbody—Perihelion
MK Hutchins
Necromancer, 79th Infantry Division—Daily Science Fiction
The Genie from the Gym—Daily Science Fiction
Natalia Theodoridou
The Emptiness Machine—Forge
The Singing Soldier—Shimmer
Rebecca Birch
At Apocalypse's Edge—Every Day Fiction
Rebecca Schwarz
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast—Saturday Night Reader
Robert Dawson
Be Mine Forever—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review
Rattleback—Freeze Frame Fiction
Sarah Pinsker
In the Hours Between Dawns—Lightspeed's Queers Destroy Science Fiction
What Wags the World—Daily Science Fiction
Stephanie Vance
Corporeally-Challenged—Alternate Hilarities: One Star Reviews of the Afterlife
Stewart C. Baker
Bloodstained Letters Found in a Roadside Shrine on the Outskirts of Kyoto—Syntax and Salt
Love and Relativity—Nature Futures
Silence, Snowfall, Hoofbeats, Heartbreak—Constellary Tales
Sunil Patel
A Partial List of Lists I Have Lost Over Time—Asimov's Science Fiction
Vajra Chandrasekera
Stick A Pin In Me—Middle Planet
The Rud Yard—Flapperhouse
2014
Flash, Saviour of the Universe
Oliver Buckram
Samantha Murray
the Summer My Wife Turned into a Boat—Flash Fiction Online (as Portrait of My Wife as a Boat)
Caroline M. Yoachim
Bread Babies—Daily Science Fiction
Goat Milk Cheese, Three Trillion Miles From Earth—Daily Science Fiction
Goodbye, First Love—Daily Science Fiction
Sarah Pinsker
About Face—Daily Science Fiction (as Beauty and the Baby Beast)
Last Thursday at Supervillain Supply Depot—Daily Science Fiction
Brent Smith
500 Seconds—Daily Science Fiction
Scenes from a Solitary Life—Daily Science Fiction
Natalia Theodoridou
A Domestic Lepidopterist—Daily Science Fiction
On Post-Mortem Birds—Interfictions
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
The Last Zombie Story—Daily Science Fiction
Erica Satifka
Bucket List Found in the Locker of Maddie Price, Age 14, Written Two Weeks Before the Great Uplifting of All Mankind—Lightspeed's Queers Destroy Science Fiction
James Beamon
Real Things We Learned as a Fake Band—Daily Science Fiction
Jessi Cole Jackson
Lady Cintron and the Bull—Every Day Fiction
Jose Iriarte
O Stone, Be Not So—Diabolical Plots
Joy Kennedy O'Neill
The Jury—The Centropic Oracle
Kate Heartfield
Fast Enough to Fly—Daily Science Fiction (as Isabelle the Stupendous)
I'm Lonely': Immune to Apraxia, Toronto doctor refuses to give up on a cure—Daily Science Fiction
Laura Pearlman
Lee Budar-Danoff
A Patch of Dirt in Paradise—Abyss & Apex
M.E. Garber
Synthesis—Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (as Putting Down Roots)
With the Taste of Oblivion in her Mouth—Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores
Natalia Theodoridou
Postscript to Mauser—Big Echo SF
Rebecca Birch
Like a Lover's Hands—Every Day Fiction
Stewart C. Baker
How to Configure your Quantum Disambiguator—Nature Futures
Vajra Chandrasekera
Rhizomatic Diplomacy—Alphabet of Embers
The Animals, Who Are In Your Mouth—Liminality
The Sill and the Dike—Nightmare
Halloween Contest
I Was Her Monster by Jessi Cole Jackson—Intergalactic Medicine Show
The Seven O'Clock Man by Kate Heartfield—Clockwork Canada
Snake Game by Sarah Pinsker—sub-Q
When the Circus Lights Down by Sarah Pinsker—Uncanny
Novella Contest
The Grove of the Gray Phantoms by Brigitte McCray
The Memory of a Snowflake by S.B. Divya—Tor.com (as Runtime)
Andvari Rising by Elizabeth Shack
Weekend Warrior
Aidan Doyle
Pride and Profanity—Fireside
The Sweet Life—Every Day Fiction
Oliver Buckram
Matt Mikalatos
Sarah Pinsker
Notes to My Past And/Or Alternate Selves—UFO 3
Songs in the Key of Highschool—Asimov's Science Fiction (as Songs in the Key of You)
The House in Love—Fantasy & Science Fiction (as Today's Smarthouse in Love)
The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced—Women Destroy Science Fiction
K.S. O'Neill
Upstream—Daily Science Fiction
Kelly Sandoval
Alex Shvartsman
A One-Sided Argument—Nature Futures
Invasive Species—Daily Science Fiction
Notes on the Game in Progress, Played Almost to a Draw—Daily Science Fiction
The Fiddle Game—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Alexis A. Hunter
Coming Undone—Apex Magazine
Gold Dress, No Eyes—Flash Fiction Online
Alter S. Reiss
Brent Smith
Music and Poetry—New Myths
Schrodinger's Message—Daily Science Fiction
The Stars We Reach—New Myths
Caroline M. Yoachim
Current and Still—Daily Science Fiction
Do Not Count the Withered Ones—Daily Science Fiction
Garbage Trucks of Discontent—Daily Science Fiction
Honeybee—Flash Fiction Online
Red Planet—Lightspeed Magazine
Darusha Wehm
War Profiteering—Mothership Zeta
Elise Catherine Tobler
Once, Upon a Lime—Strange Horizons
Spaceman—Lightspeed Magazine (as A Box, A Pocket, a Spacemand)
The World Resolute—Strange Horizons
Erica Satifka
Clarity—Daily Science Fiction
I Have Confirmed That My Flight Plan Will Not Destroy Your Doomsday Device—Daily Science Fiction (as Dear Conqueror)
Summer in Realtime—Daily Science Fiction
Useful Objects—Nature Futures
Fran Wilde
Pillowfighters—Abyss & Apex
Gareth D. Jones
The Valley has Two Faces—Domain SF
Holly Schofield
Comeback—Strangelet's issue 2.2
Slippery Slope—Crossed Genres
Voluntary Police Statement by Person-of-Interest Sandra Harper, Case #2015041345—Dark City Magazine (as Long Way Down)
James Aquilone
6 Attempts at Winning Jennifer’s Heart—Flash Fiction Online
Jeff Stehman
The Sorcerer Climbs Her Tower—Hides the Dark Tower
Jennifer Hicks
Kitty Is Alive, Kitty Is Dead—Daily Science Fiction
Jessi Cole Jackson
Remnants of a Quilter's Memory—Every Day Fiction
Kat Otis
IChaperone—Daily Science Fiction
The Hostess Has Stepped Out Of Time For a Moment—Daily Science Fiction (as Secrets of the Universe)
War Games—Daily Science Fiction
Kate Heartfield
Bonsaiships of Venus—Lackington's
Born on a Glumday—Daily Science Fiction
The Semaphore Society—Crossed Genres
The Wedding of Snow, Earth and Salt—Podcastle
Larry Hodges
Redcoats—Abyss & Apex
Lee Hallison
All Thinking is Canceled For Today—Daily Science Fiction
Dance the Light Fantastic—Daily Science Fiction
Luc Reid
If You Want—Flash Fiction Online
M.E. Garber
Dancing—Daily Science Fiction
The Giveaway Box—Abyss & Apex
Rebecca Birch
Are You Receiving?—Nature Futures
Down By the Riverside—Abyss & Apex
Rebecca Schwarz
A Note to Parents Regarding the Beginning and End of Time Diorama Presentations for Ms. Miller's Third Grade Class—Daily Science Fiction
Black Friday—Devilfish Review volume 15
Robert Dawson
Dust and Blue Smoke—The Colored Lens
He Likes Things Tidy—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review
Pop-ups—Nature Futures
Souvenir—The Colored Lens
This Is Not When You Said That You Would Meet Me—Stupefying Stories
Shannon Fay
Readymade—Daily Science Fiction
Stewart C. Baker
Excerpt Regarding the Departed from the Diagnostic and Necromantic Manual, 5th Edition—Sockdolager
Little More than Shadows—Daily Science Fiction
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
A Long Way from Home—Nature Futures
Space Travel Loses its Allure When You’ve Lost Your Moon Cup—Crossed Genres
The New World—Nature Futures (as Alienated)
Vajra Chandrasekera
Dharmas—Shimmer
Documentary—Lightspeed Magazine
The King of the World and I—Toasted Cake
Ulder—Daily Science Fiction
2013
Codexian Idol
Two of a Kind by Shannon Peavey
This Is The Way The Universe Ends: With A Bang. Oh, Definitely With A Bang by Brian Dolton
Til the Singers Fade by Sarah Pinsker—Lightspeed Magazine (as No Lonely Seafarer)
The Species of Least Concern by Erica Satifka—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Crash by Eric James Stone—What Fates Impose (as A Crash Course in Fate)
Halloween Contest
The Jagged Gate by James Maxey
Dogs from Other Places by Shannon Peavey
Dance of the Eidolons Blade Walker by James Beamon
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Earth to Alluvium by Gray Rinehart—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Boy's Night by Rebecca Birch—Cast of Wonders
Hunter's Moon by Robert Dawson—Ghosts on Drugs
Lullabies for a Clockwork Child by Shane Halbach—Pseudopod
The Brack by Vajra Chandrasekera—Black Static
Historical Speculative Fiction Contest
Dust Devils by Shannon Peavey
Voi Che Sapete by Anatoly Belilovsky
Agincourt by the Bay by Frank Dutkiewicz
There Will Be One Vacant Chair by Sarah Pinsker—Long Hidden
Two Kingdoms Woman by James Beamon—InterGalactic Medicine Show
Novella Contest
The Liar by John Murphy—Fantasy & Science Fiction
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn by Usman Malik—Tor.com
The Law Encrypted On Their Hearts by J.S. Bangs
Setting the Stage Contest
Beyond the Trenches We Lie by A.T. Greenblatt—Escape Pod
No Body by John Murphy
An Eulogy for the Man Who Ransomed the Muse by Sarah Grey
Betty and the Squelchy Saurus by Caroline M. Yoachim—Fireside
The Long View by Erica Satifka—Shimmer (as We Take the Long View)
The Rhythm Man by James Beamon—Fantasy & Science Fiction
Leapling by Nicole Feldringer—Cast of Wonders
Regarding Your Position as our Third Year Teacher by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley—Daily Science Fiction
Weekend Warrior
Oliver Buckram
Half a Conversation, Overheard While Inside an Enormous Sentient Slug—Fantasy & Science Fiction
Space Opera—Fantasy & Science Fiction (as Un Opera nello Spazio (A Space Opera))
The Black Waters of Lethe—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Sarah Grey
Of Ash and Old Dreams—Daily Science Fiction
Southside Gods—Intergalactic Medicine Show
The Social Phobic's Guide to Interior Design—Flash Fiction Online
Sarah Pinsker
Join Our Team of Time Travel Professionals—Daily Science Fiction
On the Hearth, by Heart—Asimov's Science Fiction (as The Low Hum of Her)
They Sent Runners Out—Fireside
Alex Shvartsman
The Epistolary History—Nature Futures
True Love—Daily Science Fiction
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Going All The Way—Every Day Fiction
Jetpack—Daily Science Fiction
The Front Line—Nature Futures
When the Selkie Comes—Daily Science Fiction
Caroline M. Yoachim
A Crown of Woven Nails—Daily Science Fiction
Dancing With Fire—Daily Science Fiction
Elizabeth's Pirate Army—Daily Science Fiction
Green Fairies on a Starry Night—Kazka Press
Paperclips and Memories and Things That Won't Be Missed—Apex Magazine
Anatoly Belilovsky
Bottled Up—Nature Futures
Of Those Immortal Dead Who Live Again—The Ironic Fantastic
Pas de Deux—Kazka Press
Barbara A. Barnett
Puppet Wrangling—Evil Girlfriend Media's Speculate
The Perfect Coordinates to Raise a Child—Daily Science Fiction
The Shop of Illusions and Amethyst—Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (as The Shop of Dying Illusions)
Beth Cato
Cold Beyond White—Stupefying Stories
Elise Catherine Tobler
A Map of Marrow—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))
Cravings—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))
Good Travelers—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))
Mars Needs Grapes—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))
On Loan—Clarkesworld (as (R+D)/I=M (five stories combined))
Elizabeth Shack
Kalar's Wall—Plasma Frequency
Pictures in Crayon—Cast of Wonders
Pictures in Crayon—Daily Science Fiction
The Girl with Flowers for Hair—Daily Science Fiction
Eric James Stone
Christmas!—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as A Special Extra Christmas)
Love is Orange, Love is Red—Daily Science Fiction
Motivational Story—Daily Science Fiction
Erica Satifka
Back to the Land—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review (as the Speaking Ground)
Real Plastic Trees—Spark: A Creative Anthology
Gareth D. Jones
Hiking in my Head—Daily Science Fiction
The Probable Tradesman—Abyss & Apex
Grayson Bray Morris
The Gifted Sommelier—Abyss & Apex
Jake Kerr
Chip's Six Attempts at Popularity—Waylines
Looking for Bad Guys—Fireside
Jeff Stehman
Brother—Perihelion
Jedediah, Memaw, the Skeet, and a New Window—Devilfish Review
Merciful Dead—Daily Science Fiction
Jessica May Lin
Dark, Beautiful Force—Daily Science Fiction
Mortar Flowers—Nature Futures
John Murphy
At the Old Folks Home at the End of the World—InterGalactic Medicine Show
Jose Iriarte
The Flood—Grantville Gazette
Weight of the World—Fantastic Stories of the Imagination
Kat Otis
A Sonorous Expiration—Daily Science Fiction
The Family Business—Every Day Fiction
What Memories are Made Of—Daily Science Fiction
Ken Hinckley
The Ostracons of Europa—Nature Futures
Ken Liu
City of Chrysanthemum—Daily Science Fiction
Kenneth Kao
Memories of Forgetting—Daily Science Fiction
Larry Hodges
The Short Reign of the King—Galaxy's Edge (as Plop Plop)
Lee Hallison
Rule Number One—Nature Futures (as The Best of Us)
Such Days Deserved—Daily Science Fiction
Lou J. Berger
Kadif—Galaxy's Edge (as Matial)
The Tour Guide—Galaxy's Edge
Marina J. Lostetter
The Prayer Ladder—Galaxy's Edge
Michael Haynes
My Seventh Marilyn—AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review
Pam Wallace
Heart of a Tree—Daily Science Fiction
Rebecca Birch
The Underground—Every Day Fiction
Three Red Roses—Every Day Fiction
Samantha Murray
Eight Pieces of Losing You—Daily Science Fiction
Everything That Has Already Been Said—Lightspeed Magazine
Jumping Into the Sky—Daily Science Fiction
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
The Front Line—Nature Futures
Tina Connolly
See Dangerous Earth-Possibles!—Lightspeed Women Destroy Science Fiction
The Programmer and the Social Worker, or, A Love Story about Feature Creep—Daily Science Fiction
2012
Codexian Idol
Waking, Weeping and Four Weathered Wings by Anaea Lay
A Spirited Education by Tony Pi
A Starscape Slightly Askew by Nancy Fulda—The Gruff Variations: Writing for Charity Anthology, Vol. 1
By Appointment to the Throne by Alter S. Reiss—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
The Shaadi Exile by Amanda E. Forrest—Writers of the Future Volume 30
You Were She Who Abode by Elise Catherine Tobler—Clarkesworld
Halloween Contest
By Moonlight by Steven R. Stewart
Ghost Days by Ken Liu
Time Out by Frank Dutkiewicz
Dinner with the Captain by Oliver Buckram
FRODO and the Witch Hut Hunt by Matt Mikalatos
Sister by Amanda E. Forrest—Apex Magazine (as Sister of Mercy)
Ink of My Bones, Blood of My Hands by Vylar Kaftan—Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Novella Contest
The Museum of Error by Oliver Buckram—Fantasy & Science Fiction
Dear Hope by Vylar Kaftan
A Song of the Younger World by Grayson Bray Morris
Weekend Warrior
Steven R. Stewart
Metal and Flesh—Daily Science Fiction
The Cold Beyond the Pools—Redstone Science Fiction
Caroline M. Yoachim
After the Earthquake—Daily Science Fiction
Blue Sand—Daily Science Fiction
Harmonies of Time—Daily Science Fiction
The Carnival Was Eaten, All Except the Clown—Electric Velocipede
Tina Connolly
Left Hand—Gigantic Worlds
Miss Violet May from the Twelve Thousand Lakes—Daily Science Fiction
Amanda E. Forrest
Helena Bell
Robot—Clarkesworld
Alex Shvartsman
Manna From Heaven—Bards & Sages Quarterly
Amy Sundberg
Man on the Moon Day—Daily Science Fiction
Barbara A. Barnett
Lost in the Music—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as Notes on a Page)
The Swan Maiden—Flash Fiction Online
Beth Cato
A Song Not Fully Sung—Every Day Fiction
Pest Control—Every Day Fiction
Pigeons in Heaven—Every Day Fiction
The Vulgarity of Flowers—Plasma Frequency
Elise Catherine Tobler
Harder Trick Than Heart—Jabberwocky 12
Key to the Kingdom—Every Day Fiction
Eric James Stone
Dark Roads for the Eternal Ruler—Daily Science Fiction
Frank Dutkiewicz
Fool's Gold—Daily Science Fiction
Gareth D. Jones
Lords of Time—Tall Tales TV Podcast (as Escapades in Time)
The Sound of Death—InterGalactic Medicine Show
Jeff Stehman
An Unchanted Sword—Unidentified Funny Objects
John Murphy
Tumbleweeds and Indelicate Questions—Nature Futures
Kat Otis
Faerie Food—Daily Science Fiction
Keffy Kehrli
Singing Wings—Fireside
Kenneth Kao
Cereal as a Distraction to Meta-Awareness—DarkFuse Horror D'oeuvres
Evolution of a Thread—Suddenly Lost in Words
Hanashi Ukemi—Nightblade Fantasy and Horror
Make Believe—Toasted Cake
Larry Hodges
Human Help Desk—Abyss & Apex
The Monkey Cage Rules—Alternative Truths
The Untold Christmas Carol—Galaxy's Edge
Lee Hallison
Taking Care of Ma—Daily Science Fiction
Wildness and Wet—Daily Science Fiction
Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Other Theories of Relativity—Toasted Cake
Oliver Buckram
The Running of the Robots—Flash Fiction Online
Pam Wallace
The Mirror Never Lies—Every Day Fiction
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
All That We Need—Vignettes from the End of the World
Tina Connolly
Queen Astor, Who Dances—Fireside
Tony Pi
Susumu Must Fold—Daily Science Fiction
2011
Codexian Idol
In the Fading Light of Sundown by Nancy Fulda—Intergalactic Medicine Show
The Shackles of Memory by Mike Wood
When All is Said and Done by K.G. Jewell—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Ten Million Sheets of Paper, All in Black and White by Caroline M. Yoachim—Gigonotosaurus
The Lighthouse Keeper by Gareth D. Jones—Plasma Frequency
In the Space Between by Jeff Stehman—Bastion
Yesterday's Taste by Lawrence M. Schoen Transitories
Halloween Contest
Notes from a Dead Man's House on the Inevitable Heat Death of the Universe by Helena Bell
Lion Dance by Vylar Kaftan—Asimov's Science Fiction
Roundabout by Nathaniel Lee
Interstitial Spaces by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Jack-o-Lanterns by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
SEAGULLs by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Mr. Yuk by John Murphy—On the Premises
War of the Night by Larry Hodges—Galaxy's Edge
Noise by Linda A.B. Davis—Perihelion
Remains of the Witch by Tony Pi—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Novella Contest
It, Claudius by John Murphy
The Weight of the Sunrise by Vylar Kaftan
Barry's Tale by Vylar Kaftan—Buffalito Buffet
Setting the Stage Contest
The Aliens Made of Glass by Helena Bell
What Is a Warrior Without His Wounds? by Gray Rinehart—Asimov's Science Fiction
And Nothing of Consequence was Lost by Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Caroline M. Yoachim
Deathbed—Daily Science Fiction
Mother Ship—Lightspeed Magazine
One Last Night at the Carnival, Before the Stars Go Out—Flash Fiction Online
Eric James Stone
Nine Tenths of the Law—Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste (Anthology)
Write What You Want—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Jeff Stehman
A Young Heart in Spring, With Gravestones—Azure Valley
Calling the Train—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Shadow's Echo—Toasted Cake
Allison Starkweather
Upgrade—Daily Science Fiction
Deborah Walker
Speed of Love—Daily Science Fiction
Helena Bell
In Light of Recent Events I Have Reconsidered the Wisdom of Your Space Elevator—Shimmer
Jeff Stehman
Testament—Kazka Press
K.G. Jewell
Hints of the Apocalypse—Daily Science Fiction
Kat Otis
Counting Coup—Daily Science Fiction
Death & Taxes—Every Day Fiction
Keffy Kehrli
Accompaniment10—Flash Quarterly
Kenneth Kao
Divine Joke—Grand Science Fiction
Only Backwards—Daily Science Fiction
Selfless—Daily Science Fiction
Larry Hodges
Life and Death and Bongo Drums—Every Day Fiction
The Dragon of the Apocalypse—Penumbra
The Shaking Sphere—Every Day Fiction
S.J. Driscoll
In Vivo—Daily Science Fiction
Scott W. Baker
Not Rats—Untied Shoelaces of the Mind
Ten Seconds—Daily Science Fiction
Steven R. Stewart
Fool—Brain Harvest
Sylvia Spruck Wrigley
Faith—Kazka Press (as When You Come Back Again)
Knight in Shining Armor—Daily Science Fiction
Old Flames—Daily Science Fiction
2010
Codexian Idol
A Sweet Calling by Tony Pi—Clarkesworld
The Waverunner by Kat Otis
Leaves Untrodden on a Timelike Path by Eric James Stone
Movement by Nancy Fulda—Asimov's Science Fiction
Halloween Contest
The Child of Samhain by Randy Henderson—Penumbra
Lobstersaurus by Eric James Stone—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Dark Swans by Terra LeMay—Daily Science Fiction
The Trickster's Bones by Kenneth Kao—Buzzy Mag
The Devil's Backbone by Larry Hodges—After Death
Gris-Gris for a Mal Pris by Rebecca Roland—Stupefying Stories
Weekend Warrior
Tina Connolly
Angel Plantation—Daily Science Fiction
Inflection—Daily Science Fiction
Recalculating—Brain Harvest
Alexander Lumans
Helena Bell
Please Return My Brother Who Is in Your Custody—Brain Harvest (as Please Return My Son Who Is in Your Custody)
Amber D. Sistla
Not the Chosen One—Daily Science Fiction
The Valley of Wonders—Postscripts
Unglued—Nature Futures
Eric James Stone
They Do It with Robots—Daily Science Fiction
To Serve Aliens (Yes, It's a Cookbook)—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Larry Hodges
The Roads to Hell—Stupefying Stories
The Sanctimonious Time Traveler Trap—Quantum Muse
Rachel Swirsky
Ghosts, Stamped and Inked—Tor.com (as The Monster's Million Faces)
Tipping the Velvet—Pank Magazine
Samantha Henderson
Beside Calais—Strange Horizons
2009
Codexian Idol
Aim for the Stars by Tom Pendergrass—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Sneaking the Peach by Krista Hoeppner Leahy—Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
This Changing Light by Brian Dolton
Sensitive, Compartmented by Gray Rinehart—Asimov's Science Fiction
Halloween Contest
Return to Sender by James Maxey—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Stan Musial, Therapeutic Mathematics, and the Physics of Curve Balls by Gray Rinehart—Analog Science Fiction & Fact (as Therapeutic Mathematics and the Physics of Curve Balls)
Counterclockwise by Alethea Kontis—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Clockwork Fairies by Cat Rambo—Tor.com
Migrating Bears by Helena Bell—Daily Science Fiction
The Trouble with Truffles by Rick NovyM—Brane SF
The Suicide Witch by Vylar Kaftan—Daily Science Fiction
Mega Weekend Warrior
The Girl Who Was Loved By The Sea by Spencer Ellsworth—Toasted Cake
Rites of Man: A Hundred Years for the Heart of Scorpio by Sara King
Tattered Sky by Laurel Amberdine
The Awakening by Larry Hodges—Space & Time Magazine
Setting the Stage Contest
Robot People and the Flight of the Albino Peacock by Helena Bell
Lord of the Mountain by Lisa Poh
A Brooch of Bone, a Hint of Teeth by Cat Rambo
Weekend Warrior
Caroline M. Yoachim
The Safe Road—Daily Science Fiction
Tina Connolly
Golden Apples—Scheherezade's Bequest
Hard Choices—Brain Harvest
Luc Reid
Adam Israel
History of the Flesh—The Crimson Pact
D.T. Friedman
There Are No Great Truths Here—Flash Fiction Online
Eric James Stone
Buy You a Mockingbird—Daily Science Fiction
Dating-Man's Destiny Arrives—Penumbra
Early—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as An Early Ford Mustang)
Girl Who Asks Too Much—Daily Science Fiction
The Steel Throne—Daily Science Fiction
Jenny Rae Rappaport
The Sock ThiefKnitty
Katherine Sparrow
The Jacob Miracle—Brain Harvest
Larry Hodges
Memory of a Minefield—Hypersonic Tales
One Brushstroke at a Time—Every Day Fiction
Patsy at the Snake Show—Beyond Centauri Magazine
Rationalized—Story Quest
Vylar Kaftan
Sky and Sea—Brain Harvest
2008
Codexian Idol
Hey Tin Man by Krista Hoeppner Leahy—Shimmer
Into the West by Eric James Stone—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Hong Kong Rendezvous by Tony Frazier
Halloween Contest
Where Their Worm Dieth Not by James Maxey—Masked
The Silent Familiar by Cat Rambo—Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight
3 Minutes, 42 Seconds With Annabel Lee by Scott Roberts—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as The End-of-the-World Pool)
The Sorcerer of Etah by Matt Rotundo
Wet Work: A Tale of the Unseen by Matt Rotundo—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Weekend Warrior
Luc Reid
Gray Rinehart
D.T. Friedman
Caroline M. Yoachim
Firefly Igloo—Shimmer
Shades of Orange—Daily Science Fiction
Eric James Stone
Freefall—Daily Science Fiction
Jenny Rae Rappaport
The Black Veils—Cast of Wonders
Vylar Kaftan
What President Polk Said—Phantom
2007
Codex Collaboration Contest
Lights in the Orchard by Luc Reid
Lights in the Orchard by Maya Lassiter
Codexian Idol
Eater by James Maxey
No Love for the Middleman by Tony Frazier—Strange Horizons
Visits of the Dead by Elise Catherine Tobler—Poe: 19 New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe
Bots D'Amour by Cat Rambo—Aoife's Kiss
Attitude Adjustment by Eric James Stone—Analog Science Fiction & Fact
Not Fade Away by Nora Fleischer—Aoife's Kiss
Dreaming of a Broken Neck by Vylar Kaftan—Redstone Science Fiction
Halloween Contest
She Sleeps by Vylar Kaftan
Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes by Eric James Stone—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as Like Diamond Tears from Emerald Eyes)
Right Before Your Very Eyes by Matt Rotundo—Intergalactic Medicine Show
The Worm Within by Cat Rambo—Clarkesworld
Toby's Trophies by Floris M. Kleijne—Sniplits.com
Setting the Stage Contest
Mind-Diver by Vylar Kaftan—Abyss & Apex
Release by Rebecca Roland
Brilliant Things Instead of Weeping by Laurel Amberdine
2006
Codexian Idol
A Shadow Cast by Angel's Wings by James Maxey—Intergalactic Medicine Show (as To Know All Things That Are In The Earth)
A Lincoln in Time by Eric James Stone—Digital Science Fiction
The Dog Prince by Rachel Ann Dryden
Mars Needs Baby Seals by Lawrence M. Schoen—Destination: Future
Fold, Spindle, and Mutilate by Mary Robinette Kowal—The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
Whim of Fortune by Nancy Fulda—Asimov's Science Fiction
Magnetic Monopoly by Rick Novy—Tales of the Talisman
The Circle Unbroken by Tom Pendergrass—Return of the Raven
Halloween Contest
Silent as Dust by James Maxey—Intergalactic Medicine Show
Like Rain from Silver Skies by Nancy Fulda
Something Wicked this Way Plumbs by Vylar Kaftan—Shimmer
A Halloween Hymn by Eric James Stone—Mysterion
Thresher by Lawrence M. Schoen—Breach the Hull
Take This, and Eat by Matt Rotundo—Eldritch Embraces
The Bonny Claire by Rick Novy—Alt Hist
2005
Fairy Tale Contest
Bird Dropping and Sunday by Eric James Stone—The Immersion Book of Science Fiction
Hound of Colony by Luc Reid
Urban Renewal by Tom Pendergrass—Shimmer
Sunday by Alethea Kontis—Realms of Fantasy
Get the Juices Flowing Contest
By the Hands of Juan Peron by Eric James Stone—Daily Science Fiction
Crocodile Baby by Alethea Kontis—Rebel Wings
Bartalan's Choice by David Walton—Futurismic
She Talks to Angels by Matthew Champine
Halloween Contest
The Scream by Nancy Fulda—New Myths
The Echo of the Eye by James Maxey—The Blotter
Death Haiku Under a New Sun by Luc Reid
Get The Door, It's Dominique by David Gill—HarperCollins (as Soul Enchilada (novel))
Waiting for Raymond by Eric James Stone—Daily Science Fiction
Trick or Treat by Floris M. Kleijne—Big Pulp Magazine
2004
Halloween Contest
Dark-Foot Hugh by Luc Reid
The Final Flight of the Blue Bee by James Maxey—Asimov's Science Fiction
Nobody Dogs the Monkey by Tom Pendergrass—Aberrant Dreams
The Woman Who Hated Halloween by Matt Rotundo—Damnation Books