- 3,881 words – Across the Lake – a Native American girl goes missing
- 4,520 words – Buffalo Soldier – a Black Civil War veteran tracks a missing boy
- 6,537 words – Dear Comrades – two escaped felons from outer space come to Earth
- 5,000 words – Ladykiller – a movie star hires a detective to recover a wrestler’s contract
- 5,900 words – Los Mochomos -a journalist investigates a drug smuggling ring
- 2,489 words – The Last Movie House – a man encounters the supernatural in Little Tokyo
- 5,404 words – The Poison Club – two women plot the murder of a gangster husband
- 7,100 words – The Student – a little black girl struggles with an older boy’s bullying







