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Three-Minute Fiction: Round 7

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JAMES WOOD: The winner is Molly Reid, and the story is "Not That I Care."

ANN PATCHETT: Yoav Ben Yosef, and the story is called "Not Calling Attention to Ourselves."

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM: ...is a beautiful and very unorthodox story called "Roosts," by Zach Brockhouse.

WOOD: Ah. The winner is Cathy Formusa.

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE: The winning story is a story called "A Saint and a Criminal," and it's by Lauri Anderson.

ALAN CHEUSE: The winner is Rhonda Strickland of Raleigh, North Carolina, with her story called "Please Read."

LAURA SULLIVAN, Host:

Could you be next? Round Seven of our Three-Minute Fiction contest starts next weekend. Now, for those of you who don't know about Three-Minute Fiction, we asked you to write an original short story that can be read in less than three minutes - meaning no more than 600 words. So clean off that keyboard, dust off the typewriter, grab your pens - pick up that quill, if you have to - because it all kicks off next Saturday with a new judge and a new challenge. If you just can't wait, you can get in on the conversation on our Three-Minute Fiction Facebook page.

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Federal funding is gone.

Congress has eliminated all funding for public media.

That means $2.1 million per year that Connecticut Public relied on to deliver you news, information, and entertainment programs you enjoyed is gone.

The future of public media is in your hands.

All donations are appreciated, but we ask in this moment you consider starting a monthly gift as a Sustainer to help replace what’s been lost.