Emily Turner - Ball State University

Cool, crisp autumn air rolled over an unsuspecting neighborhood filled with unsuspecting children and parents and unsuspecting cats and dogs.

Marc Quick - University of the Incarnate Word

Ricardo sat on a cold stone with his rifle slung across his shoulder. He waited for Ruben and Matthew to return from the car with a few items they had forgotten for this hunting trip.

Audrey Parkes - DePaul University

There is delicate danger in her pink painted nails, in her emaciated elbows. I watch her at a distance, where I can still see the beautiful menace in the protruding bone of her hip.