Here is the first cut, the best, to my mind, of the entries. Some had to be eliminated, inevitably, despite all the wit and enthusiasm they exhibited. Nonetheless, I expect death threats. That’s why the judge’s name has been withheld.
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The most curious cat has no interest in the price of dog food.
Steven Axelrod
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Essays are fictions in which writers efface themselves, pretending they are not there, perhaps even believing it. Ideas are an essay’s themes, used to produce the illusion of substance; facts are the details the story teller selects to give the impression of reality. Its plot is the progression of its argument, which, as in fiction, moves to the consummation of some desire, or the destruction of another.
Gary Garvin
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Beware the aphorism: a leading cause of spontaneous aneurysm.
Jacob Glover
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Aph or isms – take your pick.
Julie Larios
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A loss of face requires more than plastic surgery to fix.
Natalia Sarkissian
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