Three Minute Fiction

NPR asked people to send in original works of fiction that could be read in three minutes or less. They got more than 5,000 submissions and asked literary critic James Wood of The New Yorker to pick the winners.

The big winner was Molly Reid with "Not That I Care"
and the five runners-up are:

• "Mickey Mickey You're So Fine" by Sally Reno
• "Plumstreet" by Bernard Mendillo
• "Something to Crow About" by Paul Luikart
• "Allechka" by Deborah Kaple (from NJ!)
• "Constellations" by Gabriel Louis

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