"A writer is going to report things absolutely differently, that’s what we do. We’re a different eye, we’re always a far outsider eye, an outlier-eye on the world around us." --Julia Whitty

Congratulations to our winner, Kimberly Smith for "Lucette" and our runner up, Catherine Torres for "The Mariposa Gang."

"This past February, over eighty thousand female olive ridley sea turtles, Lepidochelys olivacea, crawled out of the sea, onto the island."

"Even before we ate roadkill venison, Dad taught us to steer clear of deer’s nerves and the meat around it. He reminded us every time we butchered."