For a minute, she closed her eyes and allowed herself to travel to a distant place – a special place that she loved. She found herself once again sitting on the beach. This was what some old song calls “The Seashore of Old Mexico.” It was the Sea of Cortez and in Rocky Point, to be precise…
Results from the scores of ten judges made after a blind reading of the 26 stories that qualified for the finals are now in and tabulated. The competition was as close as we thought it would be, with only a few points differentiating the second through fifth highest scoring stories. The Grand Prize winner’s story (published below) seemed to capture the hearts of the judges as it was a clear winner!
If you’ve ever explored the tide pools anywhere along the beaches of Puerto Peñasco on the Sea of Cortez, you’ve surely watched and/or played with an octopus or two. You may not know that those small ones you’ve…