Short Story Challenge | 1st Round: Heat 26

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Heat 26

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Subject: A first impression

Top 5 Stories

#1 **FINALIST** 'Missed Connections' by Patrick Condon SYNOPSIS - Fate is a funny thing. Especially when it involves people, food, and the internet.

#2 **FINALIST** 'Eve & Adam' by David Wrangham SYNOPSIS - Humanity's first couple gets off to a rocky start

#3 'Family Dinner' by Jennifer Baker-Henry SYNOPSIS - A woman meets her girlfriend's children for the first time. It proves awkward being months after her girlfriend announced being a lesbian and divorcing her husband.

#4 'Reverse Engineering' by Richard Evans SYNOPSIS - A husband saves his dog-tired marriage by reconstructing the first impression he made on his wife. Killing the squirrel also helped.

#5 'The Matinee' by Dustin Swartz SYNOPSIS - A eccentric, young man prepares to watch a Monday matinee by himself when he is disrupted by welcomed strangers. Their brief banter reveals common ground and a spark.

Group Participants

GROUP	LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	CITY	STATE / PROVINCE	COUNTRY
26	Baker-Henry	Jennifer	Jamaica	NY	US
26	Barnes Walker	Petra	Denver	CO	US
26	Birdoff	Ariel	New York	NY	US
26	Chu	Vincent	Alameda	CA	US
26	Condon	Patrick	Philadelphia	PA	US
26	Crow	CJ	El Sobrante	CA	US
26	Daoust	Diana	Winnipeg	Manitoba	CA
26	Depasquale	Cindy	Paris		FR
26	Evans	Richard	Waukesha	WI	US
26	Foss	Joseph	West Saint Paul	MN	US
26	Goodrich	Gillain Grace	New Orleans	LA	US
26	Lucy	Annie	Surbiton	Surrey	GB
26	Mackey	David	Longmont	CO	US
26	McKay	Julie	Drummond Island	MI	US
26	Pipps	Steven	Akron	OH	US
26	Santry	John	los angeles	CA	US
26	spence	Andrew	loughborough	Leicestershire	GB
26	Sutton	Raphael	Sao Paulo	SP	BR
26	Swartz	Dusty	Philadelphia	PA	US
26	Wood	Kate	Cape Town	W. Cape	ZA
26	Wrangham	David	Washington	DC	US