The storySouth Million Writers Award for Fiction announces the "Notable Stories of 2004" and my short story, "First Thing in the Morning," which appeared in THREE CANDLES made the list.
Jason Sanford, fiction editor and publisher of storySouth, announces: "Here they are: The top online short stories of 2004 . . . The only criteria used to select these stories was excellence and, as you will see, there is plenty of excellence to be found among online journals and magazines."
There were just over 1,200 nominations in all. I am honored and thrilled that my story appears on this list, and that Steve Mueske, Editor of Three Candles, nominated it among all the fine stories that appeared in Three Candles in 2004.
As deafness, illness, and demonic forces close in around him, Ludwig van Beethoven must summon his faith and genius to complete the Missa Solemnis—a sacred masterpiece he believes could bring divine light into a darkening world.
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
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