Fiction International is pleased to announce the winner of our 2011 short fiction contest (Blackness): "Rogues Gallery II" by writer Mary Byrne. Ms. Byrne will receive a cash prize of $1000.00 and her text will be published in the 2012 issue of FI, About Seeing. We'd also like to congratulate runner up, Dorothy Blackcrow Mack for her text "The Black Cradleboard" which will also be published in About Seeing.
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Two Images of Vietnam
Never one to do things halfway, I eventually walked into a North Vietnamese ambush in the mountains west of Hue. After three cardiac arrests and 39 pints of blood, the doctors of the 22nd Surgical Group pulled me through. I cannot explain, in terrestrial terms, the states of mind I experienced those three weeks on the USS Repose. Small devils visited my bunk daily. Sometimes they menaced and sometimes performed a kind of theater before me. Apparitions and visions of all kinds tormented me; but the worst, the very worst, was when I descended into a sinister vacuum which only religious metaphors about the loss of god's love could begin to describe. Even the devils didn't visit me there.
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