2nd Place "If She Doesn't Exist, Why Do I Miss Her?" by Greg Tebbano

After a young couple lose their unborn child in an auto accident, the truth of the child’s paternity comes to light and what was to be the family home becomes the stage for a love triangle convened within a cage.

“All I could see of her was her head, floating there above the ragged sea of sheets and comforter and I realized that was how I also looked to her—the two of us survivors of a tremendous shipwreck and smiling at what we thought was our great luck.”

Bio: Greg Tebbano is employed as a grocery worker and, occasionally, as an artist. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Post Road, Meridian, Hobart, Pigeon Pages, Pithead Chapel and Zone 3. He has received support from Vermont Studio Center and lives in upstate New York. www.gregtebbano.com