This collection comprises the three winning entries of the 1997 novella competition judged by George Garrett: TomWhalen's "And Earth on Its Frozen Journey," first place; John S. Walker's "Days of Captivity," second place; and Richard Plant's "Deaths by Drowning," third place.
"And Earth on Its Frozen Journey" is the bitter-sweet initiation chronicle of a group of neighborhood kids who live an almost enchanted life, like Dylan Thomas's protagonist in "Fern Hill," until Time begins to lead them to the darker realizations of death and sex, and the children, green and golden, as Thomas so...