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WNIJ launched it's first "Three-Minute Fiction" contest in September, 2015 with a prompt issued by award-winning author, GK Wuori:I'm a curious person. No, I'm a nosey person. Nooo. I'm a snoop, and it's finally gotten me into trouble.We received more than 100 submissions. Wuori, a Pushcart Prize-winner, selected five authors and we invited them to our studios to record their stories. Wuori then selected another five authors for honorable mentions, and we include their readings in this archive.We welcome your comments to these stories. And if you talk about this series on social media, please use #WNIJReadWithME.WNIJ's "Three-Minute Fiction" was inspired by an NPR contest of the same name.

And The Honorable Mentions Are...

Northern Public Radio | By Dan Klefstad

Published October 9, 2015 at 6:44 AM CDT

After selecting the winners for our "Three-Minute Fiction" contest, our judge picked a handful of Honorable Mentions.

Pushcart Prize-winning author GK Wuori issued our prompt last month and chose his five favorite stories out of more than 100 submissions. We broadcast the winners during Morning Edition. Wouri then selected five other writers who also got to record their stories in our studios.

Here are our videos of the five Honorable Mention authors: