I read for this with great pleasure. The winners have been announced.

NARRATIVE MAGAZINE CONGRATULATES THE WINNERS AND FINALISTS
IN THE 2008 LOVE STORY CONTEST

First Place ($2,500) Elizabeth Stuckey-French Interview with a Moron
Second Place ($1,500) Maud Newton Conversations You Have at Twenty
Third Place ($750) Janet Burroway Blackout

Ten Finalists ($100 each)
Heather Brittain Bergstrom Shallow Sea
Mermer Blakeslee Digger?s God
William Borden The Real Thing
Beth O?Gara Connor Accommodations
Masha Hamilton It Always Does
Christian Lewis It?s a Joy to Serve You
Ron Tanner Renovation
Sarah Towers On the Universal Tendency Toward Debasement in the Sphere of Love
Lesley C. Weston I Believe
Yuvi Zalkow Blue

The new First-Person Story Contest, with a
First Prize of $3,000, a Second Prize of $1,750, a Third Prize of $1,000,
and ten finalists receiving $125 each, is open to
entries of both fiction and nonfiction,
and will run from May 1 to July 31, 2008.