Title: Even Bleaker Author: Leah Hampton First Sentence: "Poughkeepsie." by Leah Hampton of Western Carolina University
Title: Along the River Bluffs Author: Janet Yung First Sentence: "It wasn’t the bleakness of the place, crumbling brick and peeling plaster, that unnerved Julia as she entered through the large, ornate front doors of the isolated building perched atop the windiest hill just outside the city limits, nor the fact it once housed patients deemed unfit for any other institution, but rather the overwhelming sense of doom and hopelessness engulfing her the moment she was admitted." by Janet Yung
Title of envisioned novel: God