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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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Staring Down a Helicopter

Julia Butterfly Hill

To defy the laws of Nature
larger than life metal
hovering in the sky
Thunder
assaulting my eardrums
taking over my heartbeats
Wind
whipping and clawing
at my hair, clothes, branches, animals
life
To have such power
Surely this must be a god
man-made and twisted
evil to its core
yet inspiring such awe
I feel my mortality creeping in
reducing me to nothing
holding on for my life
that seems irrelevant
to a monster such as this
It turns and stares me in the face
peering into my soul
I feel exhilarated and saddened
beyond belief in a single breath
such power
such destruction
such death
overwhelming my senses
until that moment
I never really realized
I never fully understood

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