Welcome to the third 55 Words Readers' Choice Awards!

For this round we're thrilled to offer winners prizes generously donated by our very own contributors. These include Richard Grayson's book of short stories The Silicon Valley Diet and the winter and fall issues of Collectanea*. Thank you Richard Grayson and C.K. Barsan for making these prizes possible!

The results are in! Thank you to all the writers, readers, and voters for participating!

Readers' Choice December
Self-Improvement, by Roberta Beach Jacobson

Readers' Choice January
The Black Tree, by Ian Rogers

Readers' Choice February
When the phone rang, by Anne Brooke

December Nominees
Eyepatch * New Lenses *Weehawken, NJ

January Nominees
A Baking Lesson * What Characters Do * The Final Seven Seconds

February Nominees
Love Rocket * I am Grandma * Shared Heart

PAST WINNERS
The Beach, by Belinda Farley
My Stolen Maverick, 1975, by Richard Grayson
In a Serbian Church, by Adam Jeffries Schwartz
Each Choice, by Heloise Shinglewit
The Dance, by Christine Orchanian Adler