We are thrilled to announce that two ASF stories—”Endangered” by Allegra Hyde and “A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle” by Daisy Johnson—have won Best of the Net 2017. Congratulations to all the winners!
Allegra Hyde’s “Endangered”
‘The artists were kept in cages. This was for their own good. The world had gotten really ugly, really fast, and the artists, generally, did not have the skills to survive.” (Read the entire story here.)
Daisy Johnson’s “A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle”
“The house did not love the way a dog would love, unthinking, beating back up after a cuff to the nose; or the way a child did, through lack of choice and necessity. It loved her darkly and greatly and with a huge, gut-swallowing want that killed the hive of wasps that were building hard in the wall and cut the electricity for odd, silent hours: Salma’s father humming tunelessly in the attic, torch in hand, fiddling with the fuse box.” (Read the entire story here.)